Course: Principles of Paediatrics

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Course title Principles of Paediatrics
Course code KPR/7115
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cipra Adam, MUDr.
Course content
1. Introduction - acquaintance with the curriculum, with recommended literature and requirements for completion of the subject, assignment of the seminar paper. Provision of health care for a child in the Czech Republic, basics of social pediatrics, specific problems of abused, abused and neglected children, problems of drug addiction in children. 2. Growth and development of a healthy baby, examination of developmental maturity, nutrition, daily regimen in individual ages, congenital developmental defects. 3. Basics of clinical examination in pediatrics, preventive examinations, history, importance of differential diagnosis, analysis of the most important symptoms of the disease. 4. First aid and acute conditions in childhood. 5. Disease of the digestive system. 6. Diseases of the respiratory system and their prevention. 7. Diseases of the circulatory system, blood disorders. 8. Renal and urinary tract diseases, endocrine diseases - Diabetes mellitus. 9. Locomotor diseases. 10. Diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. 11. Skin diseases. 12. Allergic diseases. 13. Infectious diseases of childhood. 14. Evaluation of seminar work, completion of teaching.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basics of pediatrics, which will allow them to better understand the issues of childhood diseases, which they will most often encounter in their practice. Emphasis is placed on understanding the principles of a healthy lifestyle and preventive measures, which in their consequences can prevent or delay the onset of the disease, or which can at least improve the course of treatment and reduce the development of complications. The course is focused mainly on common practice, on diseases that students may encounter in their work.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Develop and submit a seminar paper by the deadline. Assignment of the seminar paper: to prepare a case study of a child with a chronic illness - subject in agreement with the teacher. Seminar work (minimum 2 pages A4, Word, font size 12) on the subject with the teacher at the first lesson, presentation of his work in front of the audience in the schedule according to the schedule. Exam requirements: Exam circuits correspond to the individual topics in the subject matter and the topics discussed in the seminars Exam circuits correspond to individual topics in subject matter and topics discussed during contact education.
Recommended literature
  • DUNOVSKÝ, J. a kol. Sociální pediatrie. Praha: Grada Publishing, s.279. 1999. ISBN 80-7169-254-9.
  • Klíma, J. a kol. Pediatrie pro nelékařské zdravotnické obory.. Praha: Grada, 2016.
  • Kukla, L. a kol. Sociální a preventivní pediatrie.. Praha: Grada, 2016.
  • STOŽICKÝ, F., SÝKORA, J. et al. Základy dětského lékařství. Praha: Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2997-1.


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