aVLPL11XX General Medicine Practice 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)
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
Prerequisites (in Czech)
aVLFA0822p Pharmacology II - lec. && aVLNE9X1p Neurology - lecture && aVLPY9X1p Psychiatry - lect. && aVLDV7X1p Dermatovenerology - lecture && aVLAM9X1p Intensive care med. - lect. && aVLVL101 Internal Medicine && aVLIN9X22p Infectious diseases II && aVLON9X1p Clinical oncology - lec. && aVLCH9X33c Surgery III - practice && aVLCH091 Surgery && aVLOZ1044 Public Health IV && aVLPD1033c Pediatrics III - practice && aVLCJ0888 Czech for Foreigners VIII && ( aVLPG1022c Gynecol. and obst. II- pract. || aVLPG9X1 Gynecol. and obst. )
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 be able:
- to have basic overview about general aspects of general practice.
- to describe main specifics of general practice and its basic rules.
- to knowthe performance of GP office for adults and GP office for children and adolescents.
- to know main specifics of diagnostics, diseases course, pharmacotherapy and aftercare in older persons.
- to know the performance of Geriatric Department of Faculty Hospital 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
  • SEIFERT, Bohumil, Václav BENEŠ and Svatopluk BÝMA. Všeobecné praktické lékařství. 2., dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2013, xi, 673. ISBN 9788072629343. info
  • Textbook of family medicine. Edited by Ian R. McWhinney - Thomas Freeman. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, xii, 460 p. ISBN 0195369858. info
  • SEIFERT, Bohumil and Václav BENEŠ. Všeobecné praktické lékařství. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2005, 292 s. ISBN 8072623699. info
Teaching methods
1 workshop - case reports, active preparation and presentation of report
Assessment methods
koloqium, case description
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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 2017, Spring 2018, autumn 2018, spring 2019, autumn 2019, spring 2020, autumn 2020, spring 2021, autumn 2021, spring 2022, autumn 2022, spring 2023, autumn 2023, spring 2024, autumn 2024.
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