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Medicine (Dpt): Course Outline Medicine II

Medicine is a field that uses scientific knowledge and expertise to: Diagnose: diseases and illnesses. Prevent: illness and promote overall health. Treat: diseases, injuries, and chronic conditions. Alleviate symptoms: and ease suffering

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, and ethology, 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.

Learning objectives

  • 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, consultations, family input, and old records to request and interpret data pertinent to problem-solving.

Course contents

Dermatology

  • Acne vulgarism
  • Psoriasis
  • Boils
  • Carbuncles
  • Alopecia
  • Mycosis fungicides
  • 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, Hemophilia and Thrombosis.

Miscellaneous diseases

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