STVL9X66 internal medicine part 6

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/3/0. 1 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: SRZK (closing examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Petr Brhel, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Bohdana Furiková (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Markéta Petrovová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Petr Brhel, CSc.
Department of Occupational Medicine – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( STFA0822p Pharmacology II - L || STFA0722p Pharmacology II - L ) && STVL7X61 Internal medicine part 1
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
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.
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
  • Brhel, Petr - Valková, Viera. Occupational Disorders. (An Overview for Foreign Students; in English). 1. vydání. Brno : Masarykova Universita, 1997. 40 s. skriptum LF MU pro zahraniční studenty. ISBN 80-210-1559-4.
  • 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
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 each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008.
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