Course Specification of Dermatology for the 5^th year Undergraduates

Sohag University                                                                                   Faculty of Medicine

Course Specifications

1. Program(s) on which the course is given: MBBCh

1. Major element of program                                                  
2. Department offering the program: the whole faculty                               
3. Department offering the course:     Departments of Internal Medicine, Neurology and Psychiatry, Tropical medicine, Chest diseases, Dermatology, Veneriology  and  Andrology, Radiodiagnosis, and Clinical and Chemical Pathology                                                                                                                                                    
4. Academic year / Level: Fifth and sixth years / undergraduate level for old bylaw and fifth year only for new bylaw
5. Date of specification approval: 17/11/2008, 27/9/2010, 16/1/2012

• Last date of specification approval: 17/3/2014.

1. Basic Information

Title:  Internal Medicine for undergraduate students     

Code: IMED500 (IMED510, IMED520, IMED530, IMED540, IMED550, IMED560,IMED570,  IMED580, IMED590, IMED591, IMED592, IMED593, IMED594)

Hours:

1. Professional Information
2. Overall Aims of Course

By the end of the course of Internal Medicine, the student should be qualified as a general practitioner, who is able to:

• To understand the etiology; the pathogenesis; and the clinical, laboratory and pathologic manifestations of the diseases or medical conditions they are likely to confront in the practice of their specialty.
• To provide care to individual patients
• To obtain from their patients an accurate medical history that contains all relevant information; to perform in an ethicaly highly skilled manner a complete organ system specific, physical examination; to perform skillfully those diagnostic procedures warranted by their patients’ conditions and for which they have been trained
• To obtain, interpret properly, and manage information from laboratory and radiology studies that relate to the patients’ conditions, and seek consultation from other physicians and other health professionals when indicated
• To communicate with patients and patients’ families about all of their concerns regarding the patients’ health and well-being
• To understand the economic, psychological, occupational, social, and cultural factors that contribute to the development and/or prognosis of medical conditions that impair health
• To apply the principles of evidence-based medicine and cost effectiveness in making decisions about the utilization of limited medical resources

2. Intended Learning Outcomes of Course (ILOs)
3. Knowledge and Understanding:

By the end of the course, students should he able to:

• Grasp the spectrum of clinical symptomatology related to different body systems.
• Appreciate the clinical spectrum of common medical conditions with multisystem reflections.
• Describe the concept of emergency management of acute medical disorders.

1. Intellectual Skills:

By the end of the course, students should he able to:

• Interpret the most important symptoms and signs of disease in Internal Medicine patients.
• Formulate appropriate management plans for individual patients presenting with the most common medical disorders.
• Make decisions regarding common clinical situations using appropriate problem solving skills.
• Interpret X-ray and CT films, blood gas and blood picture reports covering the most important medical conditions.
• Demonstrate appropriate professional attitudes and behaviors in different practice situations.

1. Professional and Practical Skills:

By the end of the course, students should he able to:

• Take a good medical history.
• Measure vital signs adequately.
• Conduct a proper general examination and identify normal and major abnormal physical signs.
• Conduct proper regional examination of the skin.
• Develop and present a comprehensive medical sheet including history and physical examination.
• Identify the appropriate supportive investigations relevant to a particular patient and adequately interpret the results.
• Integrate the patient’s symptomatology, historic data, abnormal physical signs and investigations into a comprehensive differential diagnosis.
• Identify adequate logistics for further patient assessment and management.
• Become acquainted with special approach to the diagnosis of common medical conditions related to the specialty.
• Get exposed to less common medical disorders within the domain of specialty.
• Get updated information about and demonstrations on modern diagnostic tools within the specialty.
• Get acquainted with special therapeutic and interventional techniques related to the specialty.
• Identify a clear priority plan in the patient’s management.
• Recognize the indications for consulting higher levels or reference to other disciplines.

1. General and Transferable Skills:

By the end of the course, students should he able to:

• Gaining of professional behavior, team work capabilities and skills of communications with fellows .
• Communication effectively with patients and their families.
• Dealing perfectly with the computer and gaining informations through the internet

3. Contents

        I- Lectures:

II-Practical: (Total 54 hrs)

     Dermatology:.3 (hrs) × 6 (days) ×3 (weeks)=54hrs

DETAILED CONTENTS

- Dermatology teaching

  24 hours lectures

Clinical teaching: (3 hrs × 6days ×3weeks=54 hrs)

4. Teaching and Learning Methods

4.1- Self-learning

4.2- Cooperative Learning

4.3- Lecture

4.4- Group Discussion

4.5- case study

4.6- Problem Solving

4.7- Brainstorming

4.8- Role-playing

4.9- Simulation Models

4.10-Presentations

4.11- Learning cycle

5. Student Assessment Methods & schedule: