Differential Diagnostics and Current Issues in Treatment of Internal Diseases (Cardiology, Pulmonology) (ISK_212)
About Study Course
Objective
Students learn the latest updates and issues of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment in the field of cardiology and pulmonology.
Prerequisites
Propaedeutic (introduction into internal diseases), pathology, pharmacology, immunology, dermatology, biochemistry, haemostasis, visual diagnostics, as well as preliminary knowledge of the internal diseases, acquired during previous years.
Learning outcomes
The acquisition of the study course results in knowledge of the most important aetiology of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment. Students will have learned the principles of completing medical documentation in hospital conditions.
On successful completion of the study course, students are able to communicate with patients and colleagues, identify cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases listed in the course description; severity, development and course of the disease, differentiate between them, justify the diagnosis, prescribe the necessary investigative plan and assess the results, prescribe treatment for certain patients, design the necessary medical documentation.
The acquired competencies of the study course will allow purposeful and structured examination of the patient's history, assessment of the patient's vital signs (namely, patient's state of consciousness, breathing, heart rate, central and peripheral pulse, arterial blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature, diuresis) the components and symptomatology that affect it will allow the patient's health status to be evaluated, normality and deviation interpreted, and the finding and specific situation to be attributed, and the next tactic to decide. It will allow to recognize acute medical conditions, to organize timely assistance, to interpret the results of various examinations and formulate the appropriate conclusions, to plan treatment tactics. The acquired competencies will allow to perform manipulations appropriate to the respective pathological condition, to write prescriptions, to fill in medical documentation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory enactments.
