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Course on Pathogenesis of Most Common Diseases for Students of Nursing Studies
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:05.02.2024 09:28:44
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PAK_051 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine | Target Audience: | Medicine; Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilze Štrumfa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Pathology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Department of Pathology, 9A Kuldigas Street, Riga, LV-1007, Latvia; pak rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67815096 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 12 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Anatomy, histology, medical English, human physiology, cell biology, biochemistry. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide studies in pathology, including morphological and functional manifestations of diseases, their pathogenesis. This aspect of the programme should provide theoretical grounds for the mastering of clinical and speciality-related courses creating a comprehensively educated professional. The pathology programme should include, in an integrated way, the progress of local and general pathological processes by developing a uniform idea of the morphological and functional components of disease pathogenesis in the student. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Concept of a disease as a process, aetiology, pathogenesis, complications, sequelae, outcomes | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Peripheral circulation disorders: nature, pathogenesis, terminology. Concept of oedema, obstruction, thrombosis, embolism, infarction | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Inflammation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Concept of benign and malignant tumours, their classification. Most common tumours in society: breast cancer and its differential diagnostics, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, melanoma | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Insight into aetiology and pathogenesis of most common cardiovascular diseases: atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease (incl. concept of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction), arterial hypertension. Concept of heart failure | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Insight in pathology of the hematopoietic system. Anaemia, leucocytosis, leukopenia, coagulation disorders | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Insight into endocrine pathology: diabetes mellitus, its acute and late complications | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Insight into lung pathology: pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchial asthma. Concept of respiratory failure | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Pathologies caused by environmental conditions | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Colloquium | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Learning of the study material in accordance with the topics specified in e-studies and posted lecture materials (course PAK_051) (for example, PowerPoint presentation on the respective topic of 50 – 100 slides), which the student should read and learn. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | During the study course, the lecturers conduct a knowledge test with the help of a colloquium (multiple-choice test). The final grade is formed cumulatively by calculating the average arithmetic grade from 2 (number) of successfully passed colloquium grades. Retaking of unsuccessfully passed colloquiums takes place in accordance with RSU Study Regulations I. A written or electronic exam in the form of a multiple-choice test is organized only in cases where taking the exam is determined as a requirement for equalization (crediting) of the course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of mastering a study course, the student will know and will be able to explain in a reasoned way the nature of individual diseases and general pathological processes; pathogenesis and its manifestations in clinical developments, imaging and laboratory examinations; causes and risk factors; potential complications and sequelae, as well as outcomes, to the extent permitted by the level of the study course. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To the extent permitted by the volume of the study course, the student will learn, through clinical tasks, to identify the most common pathologies, reasoned evaluation of the pathogenesis of the diseases referred to in the thematic plan of the course, associate it with clinical manifestations of diseases and diagnostic grounds, and to act practically organising the necessary laboratory examinations, interpreting and critically analysing their results in relation to the total picture of the disease. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Using the obtained knowledge, the student will develop competences in work with information and medical examination data. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | RSU e-studijas, PAK_051. | ||||||||
| 2 | Schneider, Arthur S. Pathology / Arthur S. Schneider, Philip A. Szanto ; with special contributions by Anne M. Mills, Sandra I. Kim, Todd A. Swanson. 5th edition, international edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014. xiv, 454 | ||||||||
| 3 | Ārvalstu studentiem/ For international students: | ||||||||
| 4 | Schneider, Arthur S. Pathology / Arthur S. Schneider, Philip A. Szanto ; with special contributions by Anne M. Mills, Sandra I. Kim, Todd A. Swanson. 5th edition, international edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014. xiv, 454 | ||||||||
| 5 | Underwood's pathology: a clinical approach / edited by Simon S. Cross; illustrations and chapter icons by Robert Britton. 6th edition. Edinburgh [etc.]: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2019. xviii, 769 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | American Academy of Pediatrics. Immunization Strategies and Practices. Ebook Central, 2018 | ||||||||
| 2 | Ervin, Naomi E. Advanced Public and Community Health Nursing Practice: Population Assessment, Program Planning and Evaluation. 2018 | ||||||||
| 3 | Sines, David. Community and Public Health Nursing. 2013 | ||||||||
