Advanced Physical Examination (ISK_222)
About Study Course
Objective
Teach how to draft complete medical records: taking academic and clinical medical history and integrating them into clinical practice.
Carry out a detailed patient assessment with physical examination methods: specific inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.
Ensure the possibilities to use physical examination methods during the third year of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the study course “Introduction to Clinical Medicine”.
Successful completion of the study course “Medical Communication”.
Skills in the subjective part of the clinical history acquired: an interview on the main complaint, current history of the disease, history of previous diseases and the screening of systems.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course students will know how to:
• structurally interview and record patient medical history: academic and/or clinical;
• perform in-depth physical examination according to the presented disease/condition;
• make objective the patient's subjective experience with the condition;
• think critically in a clinical environment.
On completion of the course students will be able to:
• engage in clinical reasoning and decision making;
• communicate with patients, their relatives, colleagues, other persons involved in the process of health care;
• specify the complaints, medical history, structurally interviewing and recording history data;
• perform systematic physical examination using the method of inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation and other derived methods.
1. Evaluate the acquired symptoms, linking them with pathological processes in the patient's body.
2. Able to analyse situations, substantiate, logically formulate and explain their own opinion.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine, SSNMF | 5 | Master’s | Limited choice | Valdis Ģībietis, Daria Chub | |
| Medicine, SSNMFz | 6 | Master’s | Limited choice | Valdis Ģībietis, Daria Chub | |
| Medicine, MF | 5 | Master’s | Limited choice | Valdis Ģībietis, Jūlija Voicehovska |
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine, SSNMFz | 5 | Master’s | Limited choice | Valdis Ģībietis, Daria Chub | |
| Medicine, SSNMF | 6 | Master’s | Limited choice | Valdis Ģībietis, Daria Chub | |
| Medicine, MF | 6 | Master’s | Limited choice | Valdis Ģībietis |
