LF:ZLVL7X66 Int.Med. block 6-practice

ZLVL7X66 Internal Medicine block 6 - practice

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2009

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Miroslav Souček, CSc.
Department of Occupational Medicine – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites (in Czech)

( ZLIP041p Clin.Exam.in Int.med.-lect. || ZLIP051p Clin.Exam.in Int.Med.I-lect. || ZLIP061p Clin.Exam.in Int.Med.-lect. ) && ZLPA0622p Pathology II - lecture && ZLPF0622p Pathophysiol. II - lect. && ZLFA0621c Pharmacology I - pract. && ZLED061p Restorat. Dent.-Endo.I-lect. && ZLPL0663c Prosthodont.in Dent.III-pract. && ZLOC0653c Oral Surgery III-pract. && ZLOR0641c Orthodontics I-pract. && ZLPD0631c Periodontology I - practice

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Dentistry (programme LF, M-ZL)

Course objectives

This education give students basic theoretical and practical knowledge about occupational medicine, occupational diseases, injuries and industrial hygiene. The students will be informed about health risks connected with work in certain branches (some chemicals, noise, vibration, overloading of locomotor system, dust, ionizing radiation, psychical and physical load), about assessment of the work and workplace exposition factors and about health risks. The most common and the most serious occupational diseases, occupational accidents and work-related diseases are refered. Students will be informed about some basic information about principles of some occupational diseases development (occupational lung diseases, allergic, skin disorders, occupationally related disorders of central and peripheral nervous system, vascular, locomotor system, cancer and infectious diseases, disturbance of voice, intoxications), their diagnostics, prevention and therapy. Students will be informed about basic laws connected with occupational diseases, Czech list of occupational diseases, European Schedule of occupational diseases, duties of physicians concerning suspection of the occupational origin of a disease, notification, social and economic impact of occupational diseases. The main task of this subject is to give students basic information about certain occupational diseases, diagnostics, prevention and therapy, assessment of health capability for work, occupational preventive care, preventive examinations of workers, occupational health services, travel medicine, personal protection. The students will see practical accesses in the basic examinational methods (pulmonary function tests - spirometry, rhinomanometry, audiometry, pletysmography, ECG, chest X-ray, blood tests, skin tests etc.

Syllabus

1 Introduction: The impact of work and working conditions on the health of workers. The prevention diagnostics, treatment, and medicolegal aspects of diseases caused or exacerbated by working conditions: occupational diseases, accidents at work, work-related diseases. 2 Occupational health services in the Czech Republic. Aims and functions of an occupational health service, types of service Occupational health ethics Knowledge of the work environment, specific workplace hazards Medical examinations: pre-placement, periodic and special medical examinations, occupational history, biological monitoring, medical records Treatment Health education Rehabilitation and resettlement 3 Occupational diseases and toxicology List of occupational diseases (appendix of government decree no. 290/1995) Occupational diseases due to chemical agents, poisoning by lead or a compound of lead, poisoning by a nitro- or amino- or chloroderivate of benzene or of a homologue of benzene, poisoning by organophosphates, poisoning by chemical asphyxiants (carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide) Occupational diseases due to physical agents, work-related cumulative trauma disorders of the hand and arm, hand-arm vibration syndrome, noise induced hearing loss, non-stochastic and stochastic health effects of ionizing radiation, dysbarism, disorders due to heat Occupational lung disorders, pneumoconioses (silicosis, coal workers pneumoconiosis, asbestosis), asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis (farmers lung), acute inflammation, malignancy Occupational dermatoses, primary irritant contact dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, neoplasms Occupational infections, infections due to exposure to infected humans or their tissues, infections transmitted from animals to humans (zoonoses), travel-associated infectious diseases 4 Mental health at work 5 The main areas of law relevant to occupational health , workers compensation law

Literature

Brhel P., Manoušková M., Hrnčíř E., Pracovní lékařství. Základy primární pracovnělékařské péče, 1. vydání, Brno, NCO NZO, 2005, 338 s., ISBN 80-7013-414-3
BRHEL, Petr and Viera VALKOVÁ. Occupational Disorders. (An Overview for Foreign Students; in English) (Ocupational Disorders). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova Universita, 1997, 40 pp. ISBN 80-210-1559-4. info

Assessment methods

The teaching contains lectures and class exercises. 100% presence is required. The end of classes as a class discussion.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, autumn 2018, autumn 2019.

Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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