Surgery
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The aim of the professional practice is to get acquainted with the organization of the surgical wards, operation theatre, including rules of admission, medical documentation, directing to the outpatient clinics.
To get acquainted with surgical instruments and medical aparature.
To be able to plan and perform basic diagnostic and surgical procedures, especially in acute clinical scenarios, in burns, fractures, and wounds.
To apply the rules of aseptic and antiseptic procedures, as surgical scrubbing and surgical field preparation.
To be able to put and remove sutures and dressings, catheters, to apply regional; anesthesia.
To take part in ward rounds and medical conferences. Active participation in the ward's life, in the team-work, always acting in the concordance of legal- and ethical principles.
Total student workload
1) Attendance in didactic activities - 120
2) Time for individual learning, reading literature - 20
Cumulative student's workload: 140
Learning outcomes - knowledge
Learning effect - knowledge:
F.W1 knows and understands etiology, symptoms, diagnostic and therapeutic methods concerning common diseases, requiring surgical interventions, especially:
a) acute and chronic abdominal diseases,
b) cardiothoracic diseases,
c) diseases of head and extremities
d) bone fractures and organ trauma
F.W3. knows qualification principles, course, and complications of basic operations and diagnostic procedures
F.W4. Knows principles of perioperative safety, preoperative treatment, general and local anesthesia, and controlled sedation.
F.W5. knows postoperative treatment, analgesia, and monitoring principles.
F.W14. knows a basic range of transplant problems, indications for transplantation of the irreversibly destroyed organs and tissues, and related problems.
Learning outcomes - skills
Effect of learning - skills:
F.U1. Assist at the operation, prepares an operative field, applies a local anesthesia;
F.U2. knows how to use basic surgical instruments;
F.U3. obeys principles of aseptic and antiseptic rules;
F.U4. handles a simple wound, applies and removes a sterile surgical dressing;
F.U5. installs a peripheral vascular cannula;
F.U6. examines, breast, lymph nodes, thyroid gland, and abdomen in the acute abdomen context, performs per rectum examination;
F.U7. evaluates the x-ray images of the most common fracture types, especially long bones;
F.U8. applies an emergent immobilization of the extremity, can choose the most appropriate type of immobilization, controls blood supply after immobilization;
F.U9. handles an external hemorrhage;
F.U12. is monitoring the postoperative course, based on the observation of vital signs;
Learning outcomes - social competencies
Learning effects - social competencies:
K01 - recognizes own limitations and a necessity of continuous learning;
K02 - can act in the situation of uncertainty and stress;
K03 - can enter into deep and respectful communication with patients;
K05 - puts a patient's good in the first place;
K06 - Shows respect towards the patient and understanding of the cultural and worldview differences;
K07 - obeys medical secrets and all patient's laws (like information law, intimacy law, own decision law, a peaceful death law);
k08 - can collaborate with other medical professionals;
Teaching methods
Own work under a supervisor's control, team-work, attendance in medical trainings;
Exploratory teaching methods
- case study
- observation
- situational
- classic problem-solving
Type of course
compulsory course
Prerequisites
Credits from previous study years 1 -- 5
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Credit is based on the records made in the practice log and confirmed by a signature of the supervisor.
Bibliography
As indicated by the local unit.
Additional information
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