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Clinical Placement I
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:15.12.2023 12:39:52
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_088 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 18.00 | ECTS: | 27.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ēriks Švēde | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, rk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 20271291 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 4 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Prior knowledge in anatomy, physiology, orthotics with soft and hard orthoses, prosthetics of upper and lower limbs, clinical rehabilitation is required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To teach students to independently perform examination and assessment of the patient for illnesses related to the use of technical aids, to choose the appropriate and necessary aid for the patient, to make it, to train the patient in its use. To strengthen the practical and theoretical skills learned by the student in previous years, their application in practice, training in its use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Clinical problem solving of patients with prescribed technical aid, with the closer attention to the patients with need for orthotics. Participation in orthosis and prosthesis production phases | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Prepare previously investigated patient case studies, to prepare a work plan for technical aids manufactoring to realize it during the placement. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Ability of the students to put into practice the theoretical knowledge acquired previously. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Defence (Placement) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | After successful completion of the study course, students will gain in-depth knowledge of orthotics and prosthetics, to be able to identify the patient's problem from point of view of the technical orthopedics, as well as the formulation of selection of the technical aids. To formulate manufacturing and customization stages. | ||||||||
| Skills: | During the study course, students have acquired sufficient theoretical and practical knowledge of orthotics and prosthetics, to be able to take the examination of a patient and the interpret the results of the investigation, to be able to point appropriate choices for the patient. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The student has the competence to base their choice on the existing knowledge, to explain the stages of manufacture, make particular stage of manufacturing, to make the product customization and explain the use of the product. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Prosthetics & Orthotics in Clinical Practice: A Case Study Approach. May, B.J. A Lockard, M.A. F.A. Davis. 2011. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation. 4th Edition. July 6, 2019 | ||||||||
| 2 | Essentials of prosthetics & orthotics with mcqs & disability assessment guidelines. Paperback – January 1, 2013 | ||||||||
| 3 | Prosthetics and Orthotics Mokhtar Arazpour IntechOpen, 2021 | ||||||||
