Basics of Paediatrics III (PEK_052)
About Study Course
Objective
To improve students’ knowledge of and provide them with additional knowledge of the development of the child’s body from birth to 18 years, frequent childhood illnesses, as well as to develop the necessary skills and attitudes in the work of a general practitioner with children.
Prerequisites
In the humanities and social sciences disciplines that develop students’ critical creative thinking skills, understanding of a human as a living being and its role in the society.
In foreign languages (Russian, English or German, Latin).
Paediatric propaedeutics, pharmacology, pathological physiology, microbiology, oral disease course, skin diseases, basic paediatric infectious diseases, infectious diseases in children.
Learning outcomes
Students will gain knowledge of the prevalence and incidence of childhood diseases, risk factors for diseases, primary prevention, and on diseases in aspects of aetiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment, including aspects of clinical morphology, pharmacology, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, intensive care, and secondary prevention in paediatrics.
To find out patient complaints and anamnesis.
To perform physical examination of the patient by palpation, percussion and auscultation.
To measure peripheral pulse, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure, relate them to a specific clinical situation and link them to the overall examination process at different periods of childhood.
To apply basic knowledge of reasoning, logic, and rhetoric to analyse practical situations, to discuss and explain one’s opinion, and constructively contribute to the achievement of professional goals and fulfilment of specific tasks.
Be able to communicate with patients, their relatives, colleagues, and other people involved in health care.
To plan independent improvement of one’s own communication skills, respecting other people’s different levels of knowledge, experience, tradition, culture and other individual personality characteristics.
To transfer knowledge of morphology and homeostasis into a single integrative diagnostic activity with the aim of assessing the individual’s state of health, diagnosing, developing and implementing an individualised health care plan.
To interpret clinical test results, relate them to a specific clinical situation, and link them to the overall examination process.
To compare signs of pathology with normal parameters of morphology and homeostasis using integrative thinking, recognise disease symptoms, explain pathology, formulate a diagnosis and differentiate it from other diagnoses, check for the most common complications, predict the course and consequences of the pathological process.
