Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RNM_032

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

1.05

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Aleksejs Višņakovs

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Emergency Medicine Doctor

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Aleksejs Višņakovs

Contacts

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About Study Course

Objective

Provide the opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of the acute psychiatric and narcological disorders in patients of all ages, to be able to distinguish the masked psychotic disorders of somatic pathology with impaired consciousness and to provide emergency medical assistance psihiaku ill patients in the pre-stage and hospital casualty department stage.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Able to describe psychiatric and addiction pathological symptoms and syndromes. 2. Able to explain the differences between mental disorders and somatic diseases with secondary disorders of consciousness. 3. Able to articulate the medical tactics when contacting with the mentally unbalanced patients

Skills

1.Able to assess the patient's mental state and to provide emergency medical assistance. 2. Able to formulate indications for hospitalization "State Mental Health Agency."

Competences

1.Able to diagnose and manage patients with acute psychological disorders and somatic pathologies in boundary conditions and when the differential diagnostics is required before the arrival of the specialist.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

1.05

Number of Residency Seminars:

0

Length (weeks):

4

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

• J.P. Wyatt et al.Oxford handbook of accident and emergency medicine, second edition, Oxford university press, 2005, 713 p., p.575-605

2.

• K.Puri Basant.Emergencies in Psychiatry. Oxford university press, 2008, p.339

Emergency Psychiatry