Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Course Description Status: Approved

Course Description Version: 25/26.R.1.00

Description Period: 2025./26 academic year rudens semestris

Study Course Accepted: -

Study Course Description

Rehabilitation (Cardiological, Neurological, Pediatric)

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
RFR_002
Branch of Science
Anatomy; Clinical medicine
ECTS
58.05
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Anita Vētra

Residency Speciality

Speciality
Physical and rehabilitation medicine doctor
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Anita Vētra
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About Study Course

Objective

To provide traynees with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills acquisition and opportunities for the development. To prepare traynees for certification exam in Physical and rehabilitation medicine specialty according to Latvian Republic normative documents.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Theoretical knowledge of cardiological and neuromuscular and pediatric rehabilitation principles Traynee will be able to name, define, classify and characterize the most common cardiovascular and neuromuscular and developmental diseases, as a result, patients can gain permanent and disabling health problems.

Skills

1.Traynee will evaluate and assess cardiological and neuromuscular and pediatric rehabilitation patients Will be able to analyze the results of the evaluation Will be able to predict the results of outcomes Will be able to create an individual rehabilitation plan Will be able to identify risk factors for complications Will be able to draw up a plan for the prevention of complications Will be able to determine the patient's rehabilitation time, content and follow-up is needed Will be able to use the International Classification of Functioning

Competences

1.Traynee will be able to use the acquired knowledge and to plan future rehabilitation Will be able to develop a longterm rehabilitation plan starting from the acute phase of treatment and predicted late in treatment and rehabilitation outcomes Traynee will be able to manage and lead multidisciplinary rehabilitation team Will be able to develop prevention plans

Assessment

Individual work

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Traynees daily work with cardiological and neuromuscular and pediatric rehabilitation patients in hospitals under the guidance of a teaching specialist doctor (trainer) Theoretical knowledge and clinical skills development according to the course content Traynees carry out in-depth research on the subject of such cardiological and neuromuscular and developmental disease etiology, prevalence, treatment and rehabilitation, which led patients to gain chronic, functioning restrictive health disorders.

Examination

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Participation in the theoretical seminars - 100% Regular work with patients in the location of study course under a trayner supervision Patient or clinical case presentation at the end of study course Pass the examination in accordance with the rules of procedure of the study

Study Course Theme Plan

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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
58.05
Number of Residency Seminars:
33
Length (weeks):
44
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 5th edition 2016, ed. by R. L. Braddom, Saunders Elsevier.

2.

DeLisa’s physical medicine and rehabilitation : principles and practice / editor-in-chief, Walter R. Frontera ; editor emeritus, Joel A. DeLisa ; editors, Jeffrey Basford [un vēl 11 redaktori]. 6th edition. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2019], 2020.

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Rehabilitation goal setting : theory, practice, and evidence / edited by, Richard J. Siegert, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand and William M.M. Levack, University of Otago, New Zealand Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015].

4.

Pediatric rehabilitation : principles and practice / editors, Michael A. Alexander, Dennis J. Matthews ; associate editor, Kevin P. Murphy. 5th edition. New York, NY : Demos Medical Publishing, LLC, ©2015.

5.

Physical agents in rehabilitation : from research to practice / Michelle Cameron. 4th edition. St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier/Saunders, ©2013.

6.

Upper Motor Neurone Syndrome and Spasticity 1st edition 2001, ed. By M. P. Barnes and G. R. Johnson, Cambrige University Press.

7.

Rehabilitation research : principles and applications / Russell E. Carter, 5th edition. St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, [2016].

Additional Reading

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RSU bibliotēkas abonētās datu bāzes

Other Information Sources

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www.euro-prm.org

2.

www.who.com