“Clinical hematology”
Specialty – 31.05.01 General Medicine
The total labor output of the discipline is 2 credits, 72 hours. 

The goal of mastering the discipline "Clinical Hematology" is to study the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations of major hematological diseases. The objectives of studying the discipline "Clinical Hematology" are to consolidate and improve the skills in examining a therapeutic patient; to form clinical thinking, to know how to give a differential diagnosis, to learn management tactics, the modern principles of therapy, medical records keeping, emergency care methods, rehabilitation and clinical examination of hematological patients, medical and labor expertise. The discipline "Clinical Hematology" refers to the variable part of block C1 of the discipline. "Clinical hematology" is one of the basic disciplines, which is interconnected with the following disciplines: anatomy; biology; biochemistry; histology, embryology, cytology; normal human physiology; propaedeutics of internal diseases, diagnostic radiology; faculty therapy, occupational diseases; public health and healthcare, healthcare economics; pharmacology.

The process of studying the discipline is aimed at the formation of the following competences:

•  readiness to collect and analyze patients’ complaints, their medical history, examination results, laboratory, instrumental, pathological and other studies in order to recognize a condition or establish the presence or absence of a disease (SPC-5); 
•  the ability to determine the main pathological conditions in patients, symptoms and syndromes of diseases, nosological forms in accordance with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision (SPC-6); 
•  the ability to determine the tactics of managing patients with various nosological forms (SPC-8);
•  readiness to manage and treat patients with various nosological forms in outpatient and inpatient settings (SPC-9)
•  readiness to provide emergency medical care in conditions requiring urgent medical intervention (SPC-11).

During the study of the discipline "Clinical Hematology", students learn the most important diagnostic methods that allow them to master a professional algorithm for solving practical problems; an algorithm for providing first aid in emergency conditions in hematology; to select modern and optimal treatment regimens for the most common diseases of the blood system; to keep medical documentation (medical records of inpatients or outpatients, disability certificates, statistical coupons, etc.).  Based on the acquired knowledge, students obtain the abilities to distinguish leading symptoms and syndromes during examination of a patient with a blood disease, in order to establish a diagnosis and determine the severity of a pathological process; to identify leading clinical syndromes for differential diagnosis of hematological diseases, to provide first aid in emergency conditions in hematology. Students develop the skills in conducting a clinical examination in order to identify a leading pathological syndrome and to give a clinical diagnosis; selecting optimal examination methods for various diseases of the blood system and compiling a differential diagnosis algorithm; carrying out comprehensive medical, rehabilitation and preventive measures of the blood system; communicating with patients, taking into account ethics and deontology, depending on the identified pathology and characteristics of patients with hematological diseases. 

Types of educational work: practical classes, unsupervised work. The study of the discipline ends with a pass-fail test.

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