Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RUR_015

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

1.95

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Vilnis Lietuvietis

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Urologist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Vilnis Lietuvietis

Contacts

-

About Study Course

Objective

To provide postgraduate theoretical and practical acquirement and improvement of skills to qualify doctors to be practitioners in general surgery according to requirements of regulation, corresponding to the normative documentation of the Latvian Republic.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Resident will acquire knowledge of application, indications and limitations of modern radiation therapy.

Skills

1.Resident will be able to assess the indications for radiation therapy in specific urological patients.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Provide an opportunity for urology resident to acquire knowledge and skills that he needs in radiation. Resident takes part in the work of the division and will see how radiation therapy is implemented in in treatment of a patient. Resident will also take part in three workshops. 1. Modern principles of therapeutic radiology, equipment, guidelines. 2. Principles of radiation therapy in patients with oncological urological disease. 3. Radiation therapy in solid tumors cases.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

1.95

Number of Residency Seminars:

-

Length (weeks):

-

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Additional Reading

1.

Charles M. Washington, Dennis T.Leaven Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy. Mosby, 2003.

2.

Charles M. Washington, Dennis T. Leaven Introduction to Radiation Therapy, 1996.

3.

Oxford Handbook of clinical haematology. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 2007.

4.

Harrison’s Manual of medicine, 16th Edition, 2005.

5.

Mannual of Oncologic Therapeutics, 3rd Edition, 1995.

6.

G. Gordon Steel Basic Clinical Radiobiology, 3rd Edition, 2002.

7.

Jiade J. Lu, Luther W. Brady Radiation Oncology An Evidence-Based Approach, 2008.