Course detail
Introduction to Clinical Medicine
FEKT-BPC-KMEAcad. year: 2023/2024
Introduction to Clinical Practice introduces students to clinical terminology, principles of internal diseases, symptoms of selected major internal diseases, medical documentation and work at the bedside. Furthermore, with a method for obtaining anamnestic data and overall view of the patient. The disease case reports of individual systems and the use of selected instrumentation in clinical practice in the investigation and treatment of patients according to individual systems are demonstrated.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified in guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Students will learn basic clinical medical terminology. They will be able to understand the basic examination techniques in internal diseases also with a possibility of the use of instrumentation for each type of disease. They will know the typical clinical symptoms of pathologies. They will be able to respond in an acute, life-threatening situations.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
- compulsory prerequisite
Physiology of Man - compulsory prerequisite
Pathological Physiology - compulsory prerequisite
Biochemistry - compulsory prerequisite
Basics of Anatomy and Histology
Basic literature
SOUČEK, Miroslav et al. Vnitřní lékařství pro stomatology. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005. ISBN 80-2471-367-5. (CS)
WOLFRAM M, AL DAHOUK S. Vnitřní lékařství – stručné repetitorium, Grada, ISBN 8024731088 (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-BTB Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Basic symptomatology of selected diseases
3. Overall examination of the patient
4. Laboratory and auxiliary examination
5. Diseases of heart and arteries
6. Diseases of lungs and respiratory system
7. Diseases of alimentary canal
8. Diseases of gall bladder and pancreas
9. Diseases of kidneys
10. Diseases of endocrine glands and diabetes mellitus
11. Hematinic diseases, revmatology
12. Acute states
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Communication with the patient, anamnesis
3. Targeted anamnesis by selected nosological units
4. A general approach to the patient
5. Auxiliary examination methods in practice
6. Demonstration of patients with cardiovascular diseases
7. Demonstration of patiens with diseases of lungs and respiratory system
8. Demonstration of patiens with diseases of alimentary canal
9. Demonstration of patiens with diseases of liver, gall bladder and pancreas
10. Demonstration of patiens with kidney diseases
11. Demonstration of patiens with endocrinopathy and diabetes
12. Demonstration of patiens with diseases of hematinic and locomotory system
13. Care of the patient in acute state of disease