1. Module: Endocrine System Diseases
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The course includes 6 hours of lectures, 12 hours of seminars and 12 hours of tutorials. Topics of seminars are concerned with the most frequent diseases of endocrine system. The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge about clinical symptoms, diagnosis and current treatment of endocrine diseases. During exercises students have the opportunity to use this knowledge in clinical practice and to acquire or improve practical skills.
Total student workload
1. Study hours involving teacher participation:
- lectures- 6 hours (e-learning 0,24 ECTS)
- seminars – 12 hours,
- tutorials – 12 hours;
- consultations- 0,5 hours
- conducting a written test: 0,5 hour
Study hours involving teacher participation - 31 hours, which is 1,24 ECTS.
2. Study hours involving individual student work:
- attendance in lectures: 6 hours
- attendance in seminars: 12 hours
- attendance in tutorials: 12 hours
- preparing a case-report: 3 hours
- consultations: 0,5 hour
- preparing for the classes: 3 hours
- reading the literature: 4 hours
- preparing for the credit+ credit= 4 +0,5 = 4,5 hours
Study hours involving individual student work: 45 hours, which is 1,8 ECTS.
3. Study hours involving conducting scientific research:
- reading the scientific literature: 2 hours
- attendance in lectures (including results of scientific studies in the field of endocrinology): 6 hours
- attendance in seminars (including results of scientific studies in the field of endocrinology): 8 hours
- attendance in tutorials (including results of scientific studies in the field of endocrinology): 6 hours
- preparing for the credit (including results of scientific studies in the field of endocrinology): 3 hours
- consultations (including results of scientific studies in the field of endocrinology): 0,5 hour
Study hours involving conducting scientific research: 25,5 hours which is 1 ECTS
4. The time needed for preparing and evaluation of marking:
preparing for the credit+ credit= 4 + 0,5 = 4,5 hours which is 0,18 ECTS.
5. Study hours involving individual student work (practical):
- attendance in tutorials 12 hours
Study hours involving individual student work (practical): 12 hours, which is 0,48 ECTS.
Learning outcomes - knowledge
W1: student knows and understands mechanism of hormone action : (C.W51)
W2: student knows and understands causes, symptoms, complications, and principles of diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases, including: diseases of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal cortex and medulla, ovaries and testes, neuroendocrine tumours, polyendocrine syndrome (E.W7)
Learning outcomes - skills
U 1: student is able to evaluate and describe the somatic and mental state of a patient (E.U13)
U 2: student is able to plan diagnostic, treatment and prophylactic procedures (E.U16);
U3: student is able to interpret laboratory test results and identify the causes of deviations from the norm (E.U24)
U 4: student is able to plan specialist consultations (E.U32)
U5: is able to correlate images of tissue and organ damage with the clinical symptoms of disease, medical history and results of laboratory determinations (C.U11)
U6: student is able to collect samples for laboratory testing (E.U28)
Learning outcomes - social competencies
K1: student demonstrates ability to consider patients’ well-being as a priority (K.K4)
K2: student demonstrates respect to patients and understanding of worldview and cultural differences (K.K5)
K3: student demonstrates ability to observe medical confidentiality and other patient rights (including the right to information, intimacy, informed decision, dignified dying) (K.K6)
Teaching methods
1. Conventional lecture
2. Seminar, clincal tutorials, case-report study, discussion, observation, presentation
Expository teaching methods
- informative (conventional) lecture
Exploratory teaching methods
- seminar
- observation
- practical
- case study
Online teaching methods
- content-presentation-oriented methods
Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with anatomy and physiology of endocrine system.
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Lectures:
Final test (0–10 points; >60%): W1–W2.
<6 failed
> or = 6 passed
Prolonged observation (0–10 points> 60%): K1–K3
Seminars
Final test (0–10 points; >60%): W1–W2.
<6 failed
> or = 6 passed
Prolonged observation (0–10 points> 60%): K1–K3
Tutorials
Case-report (0-10 points, >60%): U1-U4
Final test (0–10 points; >60%): W1–W2.
<6 failed
> or= 6 passed
Prolonged observation (0–10 points; > 60%): K1–K3
Practical placement
Additional information
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