Course detail

Introduction to Clinical Medicine

FEKT-BPC-KMEAcad. year: 2025/2026

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

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. MUDr. Miroslav Souček, CSc.

Department

Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University Brno (LF MU)

Entry knowledge

For the study of the subject is required knowledge gained in courses Fundamentals of Anatomy and Histology, Biochemistry, Physiology and Pathophysiology.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

This is a one semester course. Attendance at seminars is monitored. Absence in seminars - one excused absence is accepted, the frequent absence is substituted after consultation with the teacher. The theoretical knowledge obtained in seminars are verified in practical clinical lessons. The course is terminated by an exam. Wording of questions is posted in the IS. The student will extract one question that has two sub-questions, exam is oral. The classification is according to the university system.
Extent and forms are specified in guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Students are familiarized with the introduction to clinical medicine, including basic medical terminology. After completing the courses, the student will be able to understand the basic problems of clinical medicine and be able to communicate with the staff in a medical environment.
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

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

CHROBÁK L. Propedeutika vnitřního lékařství, Grada, ISBN 9788024706177 (CS)
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

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-BTB Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. MUDr. Miroslav Souček, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Anamnesis
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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. MUDr. Miroslav Souček, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Work at patient’s bedside, medical documentation
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