Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Rehabilitology (Outpatient)
Course Code
RFR_014
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
ECTS
8.00
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
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
To provide medical residents with opportunities to acquire and improve theoretical knowledge and practical skills in order to prepare them to successfully pass the certification examination in the specialty of a doctor of physical and rehabilitation medicine, in accordance with laws and regulations of the Republic of Latvia.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Theoretical knowledge of the principles of outpatient rehabilitation, especially in the context of patients whose future treatment is expected to improve their state of health as a result of the professional activity of specialists in the field of rehabilitation medicine. The medical resident will be able to name, define, classify and describe the most common neurological, internal medicine, musculoskeletal diseases that result in permanent and disabling health impairments in patients.
Skills
1.The medical resident will be able to: assess outpatient rehabilitation patients; analyse assessment results; predict late outcomes; develop an individual rehabilitation plan; identify risk factors for complications and develop a complication prevention plan; assess the duration, content of the patient’s rehabilitation and the need for dynamic monitoring; use the International Classification of Functioning.
Competences
1.The medical resident will be able: to use the acquired knowledge, planning the necessary rehabilitation and dynamic monitoring in the future; to develop a comprehensive rehabilitation plan, starting from the acute stage of treatment; to predict late treatment and rehabilitation outcomes; to develop a plan of preventive measures.
Assessment
Individual work
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Daily work of a resident doctor with outpatients the supervision of a specialist physician entitled to teach.
Acquisition of theoretical knowledge and improvement of skills, according to the content of the study course.
Studies in depth the treatment of and rehabilitation after neurological, musculoskeletal, and internal medicine diseases, which can lead to permanent health impairments that limit patient functioning and require long-term outpatient rehabilitation.
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Examination
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100% attendance of theoretical seminars.
Regular work with patients at the place of implementation of the study course under the guidance of a doctor entitled to teach.
Presentation of a patient or clinical case at the end of the study course.
Answering the questions prepared by the study course leader and teaching staff or passing tests in accordance with the Academic Regulations.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Neonatology: definitions, scope.
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The place of genetics in clinical medicine, future perspective.
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Endocrinology in rehabilitation.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
8.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
3
Length (weeks):
6
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 5th edition. ed. By R. L. Braddom, Saunders Elsevier, 2016.
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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Upper Motor Neurone Syndrome and Spasticity. 1st edition. ed. By M. P. Barnes and G. R. Johnson, Cambrige University Press, 2001.