The scope of the Clinical Propedeutics course is to provide students with basic knowledge regarding the appropriate skills needed to elicit the symptoms from the patient's problem description and conversation (history taking, patient's interrogation), and the signs by observation and by physical examination. The course is introduction to future clinical courses, and will be guided by experienced clinical teachers.
The purpose of practising medicine is to relieve patient's suffering. In order to achieve this aim, it is important to make a diagnosis. The first step in this process begins the moment doctor reaches the bedside or the patient enters the examination room. The patient's first impressions of a doctor's professional knowledge will have the lasting effect on further patient's management. So during this course students will lear how to approach to questioning and examining a patient. After acquiring these basic tecniques each student/doctor will develop his or her own methods in the subsequent course of Internal medicine.
Professors:
Professor Branislava Milenković- teaching base pulmology
Professor Dragica Pešut- teaching base pulmology
Professor Goran Janković- - teaching base gastroenterology and hepatology
Professor Andrija Bogdanović- teaching base hematology
Professor Biljana Obrenović Kirćanski- teaching base cardiology
Professor Dimitra Kalimanovska-Ostrić- teaching base cardiology
Professor Petar Seferović- teaching base cardiology
Professor Milan Nedeljković- teaching base cardiology
Professor Dragan Micić- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Katarina Lalić- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Đuro Macut- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Marina Nikolić Đurović- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Aleksandra Jotić- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Miloš Žarković- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Mirjana Šumarac Dumanović- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Svetlana Vujović- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Milan Petakov- teaching base endocrinology
Professor Mirjana Šefik-Bukilica- teaching base rheumatology
Professor Marina Savin- teaching base nephrology
Course director:
Professor Milan Petakov
Secretary of the course:
Slobodan Petrović
CLINICAL PROPEDEUTICS (Curriculum)
2016/2017 academic year
(III semester)
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Lecture |
Course introduction. Methodology of approaching to the patients.The structure and purposes of health history. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
Taking a history on sensitive topics. Special problems. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
An approach to symptoms. General symptoms. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
Signs and symptoms of cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders. Signs and symptoms of digestive disorders |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
Signs and symptoms of urogenital disorders. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
Physical examination - approach and overview. Metods of examination: inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The thorax and lungs: inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The cardiovascular system. Inspection and palpation. Auscultation - hearth sounds and murmurs. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
Peripheral vascular system. The arterial pulses. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The breasts and axillae. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The abdomen. Inspection. Palpation. Special maneuvers. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The portal hypertension. The anus, rectum and prostate. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
Male genitalia, female genitalia and hernias. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The endocrine system. Functional tests in endocrinology. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The hematopoetic system. The lymphatics and lymph nodes. |
2 hours |
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Lecture |
The musculosceletal system. Structure and functions of joints. |
2 hours |
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Practicals |
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75 hours |
Textbooks:
1. Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History taking, Lynn Bickley 11th edition
2. Clinical Examination, 4th edition, by Epstein, Perkin, Cookson et al.
Attendance to the lectures and practicals is obligatory and will be confirmed by professors signatures on the attendance sheet brought by teacher at the beginning of the course. Absence is permitted in less than 10% of lectures and practicals according to the medical study rules. If it is in the range 10-30% it is necessary to have make ups before semester signature is given.
- Colloquium is a form of the knowledge assessment after the end of the course. It consists of student's practical demonstration of history taking and clinical examination. There is no grading and the mark is descriptive (passed / not passed). The result of colloquium will be recorded in the student's personal card, the index and the electronic database and it is necessary to pass the colloqium before next semester.
Research topics
Course director
Professor Milan Petakov
e-mail: mpetakov@eunet.rs
Course secretary
Slobodan Petrović
e-mail: slobodan.petrovic@mfub.bg.ac.rs
tel: 011/3636368