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Medicine I (MED401): Course Outline Medicine I (MED401)

Course description

This course intends to familiarize students with medical terminology and abbreviations for efficient and effective chart reviewing and documentation. It also explores systemic diseases, focusing on epidemiology, pathology, histology, etiology, primary and secondary clinical characteristics, and their management.

Learning objectives

  • Describe medical terminologies, abbreviations, epidemiology, etiology, primary and secondary clinical characteristics of  Cardiovascular, Rheumatology and bone, and Respiratory diseases.
  • Explain briefly an overview of the medical management of listed diseases/disorders.

Course description

  • Chest pain
  • Dyspnoea
  • Palpitation
  • Peripheral edema
  • Syncope 99
  • Cardiac failure
  • Acute pulmonary edema
  • Cardiogenic shock
  • Systemic hypertension
  • Ischemic heart disease
  • Angina pectoris
  • Unstable angina
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Valvular heart diseases
  • Congenital heart diseases
  • Ventricular septic defect
  • Atrial septal defect
  • pulmonary heart disease
  • Pericardial disease
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Cardiac arrhythmias and heart in pregnancy.
  • Arteriosclerosis
  • Acute & Chronic ischemia of the leg
  • Aortic aneurysm
  • Buerger‘s disease
  • Raynaud‘s disease
  • Varicose veins
  • Venous thrombosis
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Connective tissue diseases
  • Arthritis in elderly
  • Arthritis in children
  •  Seronegative spondyloarthropathies
  • Crystal deposition disease
  •  Arthritis associated with other diseases.
  • Back Pain due to serious disease
  • Inflammatory Back Pain
  • Disc disease
  • Mechanical problems
  • Soft tissue problems 100
  • Psychogenic Back Pain
  • Nonspecific Back Pain
  • Neck pain.
  • Paget‘s disease
  • Infections of bones
  • Neoplastic disease
  •  Skeletal dysplasia
  •  Other hereditary diseases.

Diseases of the upper respiratory tract

  • Common cold
  • Sinusitis
  • Rhinitis
  • Pharyngitis
  • Acute laryngeal-tracheobronchitis
  • Influenza
  • Inhalation of the foreign bodies.

Disease of the lower respiratory tract

  • Acute & Chronic Bronchitis
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Asthma
  • Emphysema
  • Pneumonias
  • Tuberculosis
  • Pulmonary fibrosis
  • Radiation damage
  • Common tumors of the lungs
  • Respiratory failure
  • Adult distress respiratory syndrome
  • Disorders of the chest wall and pleura
  • Chest trauma
  • Deformities of the rib cage
  • Dry pleurisy
  • Pleural effusion
  • Empyema
  • Pneumothorax.

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