The discipline С 1.1.38 "Infectious diseases" refers to the base part of block C1 of the discipline. "Infectious Diseases" is based on the knowledge gained during the study of the following disciplines: microbiology, virology, immunology, hygiene, epidemiology. Competences acquired during the study of infectious diseases prepare students for mastering professional competences. The main provisions of the discipline should be used in the further study of clinical disciplines (phthisiology, dermatovenerology, etc.). 

The objectives of mastering the discipline "Infectious Diseases" are to provide students with fundamental knowledge on the sanitary and hygienic requirements for planning, organizing and managing infectious disease hospitals, units, full boxes, half-boxed and boxed wards in hospitals; the implementation of specific and non-specific prevention of infectious diseases; organization features and main areas of activity of district doctors, methods of conducting emergency measures and indications for hospitalization of patients of various ages; epidemiology of infectious diseases, etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the most common diseases among the population; the clinical picture, course features and possible complications of the most common diseases occurring in a typical form; modern methods of clinical, laboratory and instrumental diagnosis of infectious patients; principles and methods of first aid in emergency conditions in patients; features of the collection of pathological materials from patients, precautions, special clothing; basic principles for the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of infectious diseases, indications for hospitalization of patients with infectious diseases. 

The discipline is aimed at the formation of general professional and specific professional competences: 

• the ability and readiness to analyze the results of own activities to prevent professional errors (GPC-5);
• readiness to maintain medical records (GPC-6);
• readiness for medical use of drugs and other substances and their combinations in solving professional problems (GPC-8);
• the ability to assess morphofunctional, physiological conditions and pathological processes in the human body to solve professional problems (GPC-9); 
• readiness to ensure the organization of patient care and to provide primary predoctor health care (GPC-10);
• readiness to use medical devices provided for by the medical care standards (GPC-11); 
• the ability and readiness to implement the ethical and deontological aspects of medical activity in communication with colleagues, nurses and junior staff, adults and adolescents, their parents and relatives (SPC-1);
• the ability and readiness to conduct preventive medical examinations, clinical examination and to implement clinical observation (SPC-2); 
• the ability to collect and analyze patients’ complaints, their medical history, examination results, laboratory, instrumental, pathological and anatomical and other examinations in order to recognize the condition or establish the presence or absence of a disease (SPC-5).
• the ability to determine in patients the main pathological conditions, symptoms, syndromes of diseases, nosological forms in accordance with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (SPC-6);
• the ability to determine the management tactics of patients with various nosological forms (SPC-8); 
• the ability to manage and treat patients with various nosological forms on an outpatient and inpatient basis (SPC-9);
• readiness to provide medical care for sudden acute diseases, conditions, exacerbation of chronic diseases that are not accompanied by a threat to patient’s life and do not require emergency medical care (SPC-10);
• readiness to determine the need for applying natural healing factors, drug, non-drug therapy and other methods for patients in need of medical rehabilitation and spa treatment (SPC-14); 
• readiness to educate adults, adolescents and their relatives in basic hygiene measures of a health-improving nature, to develop the skills in self-monitoring of basic physiological indicators that contribute to maintaining and strengthening health, and preventing diseases (SPC-15). 
   

In the course of studying the discipline "Infectious Diseases", students learn the sanitary and hygienic requirements for planning, organizing and managing infectious disease hospitals, units, full boxed and half-boxed wards in hospitals; the implementation of specific and non-specific prevention of infectious diseases in adults and adolescents; features of the organization and the main activities of district doctors, methods of conducting emergency measures and indications for hospitalization of patients of various ages; the epidemiology of infectious diseases in children and adolescents, the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the most common diseases among the population; the clinical picture, course features and possible complications of the most common diseases that occur in a typical form; modern methods of clinical, laboratory and instrumental diagnosis of infectious patients; principles and methods of first aid in emergency conditions in patients; features of the collection of pathological materials from patients, precautions, special clothing; basic principles for the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of infectious diseases in patients, indications for hospitalization of patients with infectious diseases. On the basis of the acquired knowledge, students obtain the abilities to organize and provide therapeutic, preventive and sanitary-epidemic, preventive and rehabilitation assistance to the population, taking into account the socio-professional and age-gender structure; to collect an anamnesis; to conduct a survey of patients and their relatives, to conduct a physical examination of patients of various ages, to appoint them to laboratory-instrumental examinations, and to refer them to specialists; to interpret the results of examinations, to give a preliminary diagnosis, to outline the scope of additional examinations to clarify a diagnosis, to formulate a clinical diagnosis, to develop a treatment plan for a patient taking into account the course of a disease, to select and prescribe a drug therapy, to use non-drug treatment methods, and to carry out rehabilitation measures. Students develop the skills in conducting general clinical examination of patients, interpreting the results of laboratory, instrumental diagnostic methods in patients; applying an algorithm for giving a preliminary diagnosis for patients with their subsequent referral for additional examination to specialists, applying an algorithm for giving a detailed clinical diagnosis, an algorithm for performing basic medical diagnostic and therapeutic measures to provide first aid to the population in emergency and life-threatening conditions. 

These results of mastering the discipline "Infectious Diseases" are achieved through the use of the following types of educational technologies in the learning process:

1. lectures using multimedia technology;
2. solving case studies at practical classes;
3. individual consultations with a teacher when completing assignments at practical classes and group consultations before testing in each section of the discipline;
4. unsupervised work of students with visual materials;
5. students' participation in research (research work of a club, participation in conferences, competitions, etc.).

In order to implement an individual approach to teaching students following their own educational trajectory within the framework of individual curricula, the study of this discipline is based on the following opportunities: providing extracurricular work with students, including in the electronic educational environment, using appropriate software, distance learning, capacities of Internet resources, individual consultations, etc. 

The total labor output of the discipline is 9 credits (288 hours). The duration of the discipline is 2 semester. The discipline provides for a pass-fail test (9th semester). Final assessment is in the form of an exam (10th semester).
 

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