Medicine II (MED412): Course Outline (MED412)

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, and etiology, as well as primary and secondary clinical characteristics and their management. Discusses and integrates subsequent medical and surgical management to formulate appropriate intervention indications, precautions, and contraindications.

• Discuss history and physical examination related to dermatology, diseases of the brain and the spinal cord, renal diseases, blood, and other miscellaneous conditions mentioned in the course contents.
• Identify social and psychological components of patients’ medical problems.
• Discuss disease process, indications, and limitations of clinical sources such as laboratory and roentgen graphic studies, consults, family input, and old records to request and interpret data pertinent to problem-solving.

Dermatology

• Acne vulgaris
• Psoriasis
• Boils
• Carbuncles
• Alopecia
• Mycosis fungoides
• Polymorphic light eruptions
• Vitiligo
• Pityriasis
• Hyperhidrosis

Diseases of the brain and spinal cord

• Identify the common neurological symptoms including brain death, Sleep, Unconsciousness, and Comma.
• Carry out a general neurological examination.
• Stroke, types of stroke, Parkinson‘s disease, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Infective and Inflammatory diseases, Hydrocephalus, Headache, Migraine, Facial pain, Head injury, Motor neuron disease, Diseases of the spinal cord, Diseases of Cranial nerves, Peripheral nerve lesions, Diseases of voluntary muscles and of the neuromuscular junction
• Different types of Intracranial tumors

Renal diseases

• Describe Glomerulonephritis, Acute nephritic syndrome, Nephrotic syndrome, Urinary tract infection, Renal hypertension, Renal failure, Benign enlargement of the prostate gland, and Prostatic carcinoma.

Diseases of the blood

• Describe anemia, Types of anemia, Bleeding and Coagulation, Haemophilia and Thrombosis.

Miscellaneous diseases

• Describe Diabetes Mellitus and its complications, Diabetic Neuropathy, Diabetic foot and Steroid-induced Myopathy.