Polyclinic therapy

 Syllabus abstract of subject
“Polyclinic therapy”
Specialty – 31.05.01 General Medicine
The total labor output of the discipline is 12 credits, 432 hours. 

The goal of mastering the discipline “Policlinic therapy” is to gain knowledge on the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation and diagnosis of internal diseases, to study treatment methods for patients in outpatient settings, to master primary and secondary prevention, to learn about medical examination and spa treatment. The objectives of studying the discipline "Polyclinic therapy" are to learn the organization of work of a clinic, its units, a general practitioner; functional responsibilities of a general practitioner; to study accounting and reporting medical documentation keeping in a clinic; examination of temporary and permanent disability, assessment of the quality of the provision of medical, diagnostic and rehabilitation and preventive care to the adult population; methods for diagnosing emergency conditions and providing first and medical care for them. The discipline "Polyclinic therapy" refers to the base part of block C1 of the discipline.
"Polyclinic therapy" 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:
  • the ability to abstract thinking, analysis, synthesis (GC-1);
  • the ability and readiness to conduct preventive medical examinations, clinical examinations and to carry out clinical observation (SPC-2); 
  • 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); 
  • readiness to conduct examination of temporary disability, to participate in a medical and social examination, to certify person’s biological death (SPC-7);
  • 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 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 render emergency medical care in conditions requiring urgent medical intervention (SPC-11); 
  • readiness to determine the need for applying natural healing factors, drug, non-drug therapy and other methods to patients requiring medical rehabilitation and spa treatment (SPC-14); 
  • readiness to teach patients and their relatives basic hygiene measures of health improvement, the skills of self-monitoring skills basic physiological indicators that contribute to maintaining and strengthening health, and preventing diseases (SPC-15);
  • readiness for educational activities to eliminate risk factors and to develop healthy lifestyle skills (SPC-16);
  • readiness to participate in assessing the quality of medical care using basic medical and statistical indicators (SPC-18);
  • readiness to analyze and publicly present medical information based on evidence-based medicine (SPC-20);
  • readiness to participate in the introduction of new methods and techniques aimed at protecting the health of citizens (SPC-22).
 
In the course of studying the discipline “Polyclinic therapy”, students learn the basics of organizing medical outpatient care for various population groups, the principles of medical examination of the population, and rehabilitation of patients; diagnosis criteria for the most common diseases of internal organs; organizational features and the scope of work of an outpatient physician; the scope of modern diagnostic capacities of the outpatient service, methods for conducting emergency measures, indications for planned hospitalization; features of the treatment of diseases of internal organs in an outpatient setting; indicators characterizing the social health of the population.
Based on the acquired knowledge, student obtain the abilities to master the methodology of diagnosis and treatment of patients in outpatient and polyclinic settings; to correctly fill out the documentation dealt with by district therapists (form 025 / y, 027-028 / y, 046 / y, 039 / y, 070 / y, 088 / y, 030 / y); to interpret the results of the examination (analyzes, ECG, endoscopy, R-logic examinations, CT, methods of functional diagnostics, etc.); to write prescriptions taking into account social rights to preferential medicines, ordinary medicines, narcotic drugs and equivalent drugs; to render first aid in case of emergency before the ambulance arrival; to carry out measures of primary and secondary prevention of the most common therapeutic diseases with the population of the attached district; to timely identify signs of disability, predict a disability group, to draw up documents for referral to the medical and social expert examination; to apply elements of psychotherapeutic effect on patients.
Students develop the skills in analyzing socially significant problems and processes, practically applying the methods of the humanities, natural sciences, biomedical and clinical sciences in various types of professional and social activities; to conduct a high-quality examination of a patient and to identify basic objective data in a limited time; applying methods of general clinical examination; determining the minimum necessary laboratory and instrumental examinations for giving a diagnosis; using the legislation to examine disability; determining the cause of temporary disability, the criteria for recovery and rehabilitation; proper keeping of medical records; paperwork on temporary disability; drawing up rehabilitation programs for patients; distributing patients in dispensary groups, preparing primary and current documentation, preparing a secondary prevention plan.
 
Types of educational work: lectures, practical classes, unsupervised work
The study of the discipline ends with pass-fail tests in the 9th and 10th semesters and with an exam in the 12th semester.
 
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Date of update: 20.12.2019 10:01
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