Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description

Dermatovenerology

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
RIN_020
Branch of Science
Anatomy; Clinical medicine
ECTS
2.25
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Residency Speciality

Speciality
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Contacts

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About Study Course

Objective

Teach doctor infectologist, who can able to diagnoze contagious skin disease and sexual transmitted diseases and differentiate they from polyetiological and unknown origin skin disease.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Will get the knowledge about skin disease in pathogenesis mechanisms, about clinic, diagnostic and therapy principles, skin lesions to the system for viruses, bacterial and funga diseaes, changes of skin with hepatic disease.

Skills

1.When the course will be successfully uptake, will be able to use applied technology in medicine. Independently make the patient investigation and treatment. Will be able to make screening researches sexual transmitted diseases specific laboratory diagnosis and differential diagnosis, analytically to evaluate results of investigations obtained data and make diagnosis.

Competences

1.Use in lesson process obtained knowledge skin and sexual transmitted diseases diagnosis, therapy and prophylaxis. Recognize and differentiate infection disease from other pathologies.

Assessment

Individual work

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Grade
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Individual work

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Resident at the study time need to learn teory about skin and sexual transmitted diseases epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, development, diagnostics, differential diagnosis, clinic and therapy. Need to learn orientate clinical investigations, and result interpretation.

Examination

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% from total grade
Grade
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Examination

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An aptitude test, carried out in seminars and practical training time (disease analysis, clinical situation tasks, action algorithms) Theoretical knowledge is checked from writing assignment and evaluated in 10 grade scale.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Part 1
  1. Placement

Modality
Location
On site
Specialized room

Topics

Acquisition of practical skills in general dermatovenerology: Propaedeutics (skin anatomy, physiology). Mechanisms of pathogenesis of skin diseases (immunological - infection, neoplasms, endocrine diseases, genodermatoses) Principles of skin disease diagnostics Topical treatment of skin diseases Special dermatovenerology Biodermatoses (scabies, wilt, demodicosis) Purulent skin diseases Psoriasis, parapsoriasis Eczematous skin diseases (eczema, contact dermatitis, atopic dermatitis) Vesicle
  1. Seminar

Modality
Location
On site
Auditorium

Topics

Skin and sexual transmitted diseases diagnostics and therapy principles. Skin disease differential diagnosis infectologist practice.
  1. Seminar

Modality
Location
On site
Auditorium

Topics

Laboratory result interpretation in case ofdermatovenerological disease (chlamydiosis, syphilis, ureaplasmose)
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
2.25
Number of Residency Seminars:
2
Length (weeks):
3
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 18 Edition, 2007.

2.

Griffiths C., Baker J., Bleiker T., et al. Rook’s textbook od dermatology. 9th Edition, Wiley Blackwel Publ. Inc., 2016.

3.

Dermatoveneroloģija. A. Rubīns, Rīga, 2010.

4.

Holmes K., Sparlig P., Stamm W., et al. Sexually transmitted diseases. 4th Edition. Mc Grow Hill Education, 2008

5.

Stanbury L. R., Rosenthal S. L. Sexyally transmitted diseases. 2nd Edition. Elsevier, 2013

Additional Reading

1.

Klīniskās vadlīnijas "Vidēji smagas un smagas gaitas psoriāzes klīniskās vadlīnijas", 2016.

2.

The New England Journal of Medicine.

3.

Ilustrētā rokas grāmata dermatoveneroloģijā. V. Rubins, R. Gūtmane, D. Sīgels. Rīga, 1996.

4.

Fungal Infection. Diagnosis and Management. Malcolm D. Richardson, David W. Warnock. 4 Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.