VLPL11XX Practical Medicine and Geriatrics

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
MUDr. Lenka Dvořáková (lecturer)
MUDr. Emmanuela Fernandová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Vladimír Marek (lecturer)
MUDr. Alena Peroutková (lecturer)
MUDr. Lucie Rausová (lecturer)
Sabina Haasová (assistant)
Mgr. Eliška Chlupová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
MUDr. Emmanuela Fernandová, Ph.D.
Department of General Internal Medicine – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Sabina Haasová
Supplier department: Department of General Internal Medicine – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
VLSP03X Individual project && VLPD1033c Pediatrics III-practice && ( VLPG9X1 Gynecol. and obst. || VLPG1022p Gynec/Obstet II lecture ) && VLAM9X1p Intensive care med. - lect. && VLNE9X1p Neurology - lecture && ( VLON9X1p Clinical oncology || VLON091 Clinical oncology ) && VLPY9X1p Psychiatry - lect. && VLCH9X33c Surgery III - practicals && ( VLIN9X22p Infectious diseases II || VLIN9X22 Infectious diseases II ) && VLVL101 Internal.medicine -lec. && VLOZ1044 Public health IV && VLAM9X1p Intensive care med. - lect. && VLPX102t Vacational training GYN/OBST && VLAJ0222 English 1 II -p && ( VLLT0222 Bas. Med. Terminol. II -p || VLLT0222s Bas. Med. Terminol. II -s ) && VLTZ0754 Theor.Bases of Clinical Med IV && VYCET(3, VLADV071 Selected chapters of childhood anatomy , VLAF091 Appl. and clinical pharmacolgy , VLAL081 Anaesth. and Tr. of Pain I , VLIA081 Clin.immunol. alergol. , VLKB091 Clinical Biochemistry , VLKF091 Clinical Pharmacology , VLNO071 Ophthalmology news , VLPM071 Legal Aspects in Medicine , VLPM081 Palliative Medicine , VLRL081 Medicinal plants , VLTL081 Sports Medicine , VLAT081 Fundament.of AntimicrobTherap )
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
Course objectives
Students wil have the basic overview containing basic aspects of general practice, main difference between general practice and other specialities of medicine. The practical part of this subject runs in general practitioners offices, so student will know the performance of GPs offices of teachers of Medical Faculty of Masaryk University
Learning outcomes
Student will get basic overview about general aspects of general practice. Student is able to describe main specifics of general practice and its basic rules. Student knows the performance of GP office for adults and GP office for children and adolescents. Students knows main specifics of diagnostics, diseases course, pharmacotherapy and aftercare in older persons. Students knows the performance of geriatric facilities of Faculty Hospital Brno and Long Term Care Facility of Hospital of Mercy Brothers Brno.
Syllabus
  • Family medicine and general practice. Development, content of the subject, methods of work.
  • 2. Family in the past and today. The family environment influence on health and diasease. Dynamice of the family.
  • 3. Competences of general practicioner in diagnostics and therapy.
  • 4. Interdisciplinary cooperation in health service, cooperation between family medicine/general praktice and other medical specialities. How to achieve the compliance.
  • 5. Aspects of the care for seriously ill patients et home. Specificities of the care for patiens with cardiovascular, oncological adn locomotion diseases.
  • 6. Specificities of the diseases in elderly. Pharmacological and non farmacological methods in elderly.
  • 7. Psychiatric patient in the family and at non-psychiatric hospital.
  • 8. First aid at home and at work place. The equipment for first aid at the non-urgent healthcare service.
  • 9. Communication with patients. Empathy and burn-out syndrom prevention.
  • 10. Communication with handicapped, especially with visual and hearing disturbances.
  • 11. Cross influence of health and social situation. Complex home care as a support of out-patient basis care.
  • 12. Different types of social facilities. Nutritional probléme, physiotherapy and care for blind patiens in social facilities.
  • 13. Education to health life style.
  • 14. Ethic aspects of primary care.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • http://www.woncaeurope.org/content/world-book-family-medicine-european-edition-2015-table-content
  • McWhinney Textbook of Family Medicine, fourth edition 2018, Oxford University Press
  • SEIFERT, Bohumil, Václav BENEŠ and Svatopluk BÝMA. Všeobecné praktické lékařství. 2., dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2013, xi, 673. ISBN 9788072629343. info
  • MATĚJOVSKÁ KUBEŠOVÁ, Hana, Pavel WEBER, Pavel ŠEVČÍK, Michal MAŠEK, Zdeněk KADAŇKA, Blanka VEPŘEKOVÁ, Vlasta POLCAROVÁ, Roman GÁL, Dagmar SEIDLOVÁ and Helena ONDRÁŠKOVÁ. Akutní stavy v geriatrii (Emergencies in geriatrics). 1st ed. Praha: Galén, 2009, 233 pp. akutní medicína, geriatrie. ISBN 978-80-7262-620-5. info
  • SEIFERT, Bohumil and Václav BENEŠ. Všeobecné praktické lékařství. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2005, 292 s. ISBN 8072623699. info
    not specified
  • Geriatrie e-learningový kurz, Portál LF MU 2014
Teaching methods
4 seminars, 1 workshop -case reports, active preparation and presentation of report
Assessment methods
koloqium, case description
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
General note: výuka včetně kolokvia musí být absolvována před poslední SRZ.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, spring 2021, autumn 2021, spring 2022, autumn 2022, spring 2023, autumn 2023, spring 2024, autumn 2024.
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