LF:ZLVL7X66 Int.Med. block 6-practice

ZLVL7X66 Internal Medicine block 6 - practice

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2018

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
Supplier department: Department of Occupational Medicine – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine

Timetable of Seminar Groups

ZLVL7X66/13: Fri 9. 11. 7:30–12:20 KPL N02029
ZLVL7X66/14: Fri 18. 1. 7:30–12:20 KPL N02029

Prerequisites

( ZLIP041p Clin.Exam.in Int.med.-lect. || ZLIP051p Clin.Exam.in Int.Med.I-lect. || ZLIP061p Clin.Introd.to Int.Med.-lect. ) && ZLPA0622c Pathology II - practice && ZLPF0622c Pathophys. II - practice && 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.
Completion the prerequisites:

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 (eng.) (programme LF, M-ZL)
Dentistry (programme LF, M-ZL)

Course objectives

Teaching is focused on the occupational medicine, occupational diseases and accidents at work. Students will learn to exposure to environmental factors working in various sectors of economic activity (including health and dentistry), with their monitoring and evaluation and the subsequent health risks. Receive information about the most common types of damage to health from work - occupational diseases, job related injuries, work related diseases. Students become familiar with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of selected occupational diseases. There are well informed abouth the field of legal issues (the list of occupational diseases, reporting, social and legal consequences of recognition). After successful completion of the course the student is able to: - Assess and explain the relationships and connections between work activity, factors in the work environment and health risks. - Apply the acquired knowledge and skills in occupational medicine in practice - for the protection of health at work, assessing fitness for work, the implementation of preventive examinations of workers at risk, prevention of occupational diseases. - Interpret results of basics investigatives techniques (X-ray, spirometry, audiometry, EMG, skin and allergy tests) in relation to the criteria of professional disease.

Learning outcomes

After the successful completion of this course the student is able to: - Assess and explain relationships and links between work activity, work environment factors and health risks. - Applying acquired knowledge and skills in occupational medicine to health - to protect health at work, assess health fitness to work, carry out preventive inspections of workers at risk, and prevent occupational diseases. - Interpret the results of basic objectivization investigation methods (X-ray, spirometry, audiometry, EMG, skin and allergy tests) in relation to the criteria of professionalism

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. 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. 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). Occupational lung disorders, pneumoconioses,asthma, malignancy. Occupational dermatoses, primary irritant contact dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, neoplasms. Occupational infections. 4 Mental health at work 5 The main areas of law relevant to occupational health , workers compensation law

Literature

recommended 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
Pelclová D. a kol. Nemoci z povolání a intoxikace. 3., doplněné vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 316 s. ISBN 978-80-246-2597-3.
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

not specified

1. Souček M. a kol.: Vnitřní lékařství. Grada 2011, Praha, 1788 str.

Teaching methods

The teaching contains class exercises.

Assessment methods

100% presence is required. The end of classes as a class discussion.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.

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

Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2018, recent)
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