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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:3 / 4.5
Course supervisor:Jūlija Voicehovska
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Internal Medicine

Objective

Students learn the latest updates and issues of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment in the field of Internal diseases.

Prerequisites

Preliminary knowledge of propaedeutics, pathology, pharmacology, immunology, dermatology, biochemistry. Students should know the topics of previous internal diseases courses.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

The acquisition of study course results in knowledge of the most important etiology of internal diseases, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment. Students will learn about the principles of filling medical documentation in hospital conditions.

Skills

As a result of the study course acquisition students will be able to communicate with patients and colleagues, identify the severity and course of internal diseases listed in the study course description, differentiate them, substantiate the diagnosis, prescribe the necessary examination plan and evaluate results, prescribe treatment for specific patients, draw up necessary medical documentation.

Competence

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 be decided upon. 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.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMFz12Master’sRequired
Medicine, MF11Master’sRequired