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Placement Rotation Surgical Diseases

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:06.01.2022 12:29:56
Study Course Information
Course Code:MF_050LQF level:Level 7
Credit Points:6.00ECTS:9.00
Branch of Science:Clinical Medicine; SurgeryTarget Audience:Medicine
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:Jānis Vilmanis
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:Faculty of Medicine
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, mfatrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67409125 +371 67409255
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
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Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Study courses Introduction to Surgery, Surgical Diseases I, Surgical Diseases II.
Objective:
To master practical skills in examination and treatment, pre-operative and post-operative care of surgical patients, as well as to master the diagnostic methods, tools and equipment, practical skills used in surgery, when performing diagnostic and therapeutic manipulations, as well as practical application of therapeutic methods (surgeries) to patients of surgical profile.
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Placement rotation in surgery should be completed in surgical disease profile units in an inpatient or surgical disease profile practice in an outpatient medical facility. During the placement rotation, the student applies professional knowledge and skills that have been acquired during the medical studies, assists and provides support to the medical doctor in examining patients, collecting medical history, performing practical manipulations, filling in medical documentation and other activities. In parallel to the practical work, the student should read special literature in accordance with the course description.
Assessment Criteria:
The total assessment of the placement in the study course consists of: • a reference for the student from the place of placement; • an assessment by the placement testing commission following interviews with the student, which include the analysis of the skills obtained during the placement rotation in accordance with the data in the student’s Portfolio.
Final Examination (Full-Time):Defence (Placement)
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:• To understand and analyse clinical, laboratory and radiological methods of examination of surgical patients. • To know the principles of provision of emergency assistance in surgical situations. • To recognise symptoms and know the algorithms of development of surgical diseases – examination and treatment tactics in surgical situations. • To know aseptic and antiseptic principles in the surgical department, operation theatre and during surgical manipulations.
Skills:Should learn the following skills during the placement rotation: • to perform a physical examination of the patient – visual examination, palpation, percussion, auscultation and derived methods; • to determine indications for and to perform a transfusion of blood and blood substitutes; • to perform local anaesthesia; • to do primary surgical treatment of wounds; • to make sutures of different types; • to remove sutures; • to do bandaging; • to do surgical treatment of a soft tissue infection (abscess, phlegmon, erysipelas, post-surgical infections); • to perform a rectal examination; • to catheterise a urinary bladder of a man and a woman; • to follow aseptic and antiseptic principles in different clinical placement situations, including washing hands before a surgical and invasive manipulation; • it is desirable to learn how to perform puncture of the pleural cavity and ascites and to perform palpation of mammary glands.
Competencies:To use the obtained knowledge for diagnosing surgical diseases and making their differential diagnosis, as well as to know how to perform diagnostic and surgical manipulations.
Bibliography
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Required Reading
1Mācību grāmata "Ķirurģija". otrais izdevums, 2013. Profesora J. Gardovska redakcijā
2Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice. 20th ed. Hardcover. 2022 by Courtney Townsend R. Daniel Beauchamp B. Mark Evers Kenneth Mattox; Elsevier.
3Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations. 10th ed. Hardcover. 2011. by Robert Zollinger Jr., E. Ellison; McGraw-Hill Professional (akceptējams izdevums)
4Schwartz's Principles of Surgery. 11th ed. – May 29, 2019 by F. Brunicardi, Dana Andersen, Timothy Billiar, David Dunn, John Hunter, Jeffrey Matthews, Raphael E. Pollock; McGraw-Hill Education
5Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
6Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice. 20th ed. Hardcover. 2022 by Courtney Townsend R. Daniel Beauchamp B. Mark Evers Kenneth Mattox; Elsevier.
7Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations. 10th ed. Hardcover. 2011 by Robert Zollinger Jr., E. Ellison; McGraw-Hill Professional (akceptējams izdevums)