Psychiatric Problems of the Modern Man - Advanced Course
1655-LekM4WYBPSY-J
Tutorials provide practical skills on how to recognise stressful situations, which may change mental health of contemporary people. Also, knowledge about occupational burnout (reasons, results, diagnosis and treatment) is included. During tutorials (interviews with patients) students will be presented with the results of stressful situations, occupational burnout, and suicidal risk. Also, future plans of psychiatric care will be presented.
Total student workload
1. Study hours involving teacher participation:
- tutorials – 10 hours,
- conducting a practical credit: 3 hours
Study hours involving teacher participation:
13 hours, which is 0,52 ECTS.
2. Study hours involving individual student work:
- attendance in tutorials: 10 hours
- consultations: 0,5 hour
- preparing for tutorials: 4,5 hours
- reading the literature: 4 hours
- preparing for the credit+ credit= 4,5+3= 7,5 hours
Study hours involving individual student work: 25 hours, which is 1 ECTS.
3. Study hours involving conducting scientific research:
- reading the literature: 2 hours
- attendance in tutorials: 8 hours
- preparing for the credit: 3,5 hours
- consultations: 0,5 hour
Study hours involving conducting scientific research:14 hours, which is 0,56 ECTS.
4. The time needed for preparing and evaluation of marking:
preparing for the credit+ credit= 4,5+3= 7,5 hours, which is 0,30 ECTS.
5. Study hours involving individual student work (practical):
- attendance in tutorials+ credit 13 hours
Study hours involving individual student work (practical): 13 hours, which is 0,52 ECTS.
6. The time needed for a practical training:
Not applicable .
Learning outcomes - knowledge
E.W. 1. presents symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the most common illnesses of the central nervous system, including:
a. headaches: migraine, neuralgies of the 5th nerve
b. strokes
c. epilepsy
d. inflammation of the nervous system such as: epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, borelia, herpes meningitis, neurotrasmitive diseases
e. demetia (Alzheimer disease; cerebrovascular dementia)
f. the basal ganglia diseases
g. demyelinaiting diseases (multiple sclerosis)
h. nerves and muscle diseases (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sciatic neuralgia)
i. brain concussion (E K_W14)
E.W.2. presents the main conceptions of pathogenesis of metal disorders (E K_W15).
E.W3. presents the causes, the general symptomatology of mental disorders ,principles of diagnosis and the principles of their classification according to the main classification systems (EK_W16)
E.W4.presents the principles of diagnosis and management in emergency psychiatry (EK_W18)
E.W5. describes the symptoms of mental disorders in patients with somatic diseases and their impact on the course of the underlying disease and treatment (EK_W20)
E.W6. presents the knowledge about human sexuality and sexual disfunctions (EK_W21)
E.W7. follow the rules concerning mental health protection, with particular emphasis on the rules of admission to psychiatric hospital (EK_W22).
Learning outcomes - skills
E.U1. performs psychiatric interview with an adult patient (E K_U05)
E.U2. performs a full physical examination, (E K_U16)
E.U.3. proposes the appropriate direction of the treatment and propose prophylaxis (E K_U16)
Learning outcomes - social competencies
Student:
K1: understands the importance of having a friendly, full of understanding and respect attitude towards patients suffering from mental disorders and shows respect to outlook and cultural differences (K_K03)
K2: guides by the well-being of the psychiatric patient, putting him first (K_K04)
K3: can keep a medical confidentiality and retains all rights of a psychiatric patient (K_K05)
K4: undertakes actions towards a psychiatric patient based on ethical principles, aware of social conditions and restrictions resulting from the disease (K_K08)
K5: promotes health-promoting behaviour among psychiatric patients (K_K09).
Teaching methods
Tutorials:
- clinical activities
- case reports analysis
- film
Expository teaching methods
- discussion
Exploratory teaching methods
- case study
- observation
- practical
Online teaching methods
- exchange and discussion methods
- content-presentation-oriented methods
Type of course
elective course
Prerequisites
A student should have a credit from psychiatry course (3rd year).
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Tutorials:: Practical examination of knowledge- interview with a patient(0-30 points )≥60% to pass
W1-W8; U1-U3
Prolonged observation (>60%): K1- K5
Practical placement
Additional information
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localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: