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Clinical Placement II
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:30.09.2020 11:30:32
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_089 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 8.00 | ECTS: | 12.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Gundars Rusovs | ||||||||
| 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: | Prerequisites of anatomy, physiology, orthotics with soft and rigid orthoses, upper and lower limb prosthetics, clinical rehabilitation. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To teach the students to make the evaluation of a patient and evaluation of the illnesses related to the use of technical aids, to choose an appropriate and necessary aid for the patient, to make it, to train patients to use it. | ||||||||
| 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 prosthetics. 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 manufacturing 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, 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 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) | ||||||||
| 2 | Orthotics and prosthetics in rehabilitation; Michelle M. Lusardi, Caroline C. Nielsen; Saunders Elsevier, 2020. | ||||||||
| 3 | Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices, 5th Edition, 2018. | ||||||||
