LF:VLPG11XX Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Course Information

VLPG11XX Obstetrics and Gynaecology - State Exam

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: SRZK (closing examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. MUDr. Pavel Ventruba, DrSc., MBA (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Igor Crha, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Vít Unzeitig, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Zdeněk Pačovský, CSc. (lecturer)
MUDr. Atanas Ivan Belkov (lecturer)
MUDr. Petr Janků, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Jana Žáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Zdeňka Kroupová (assistant)
Ing. Josef Stodůlka (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Pavel Ventruba, DrSc., MBA
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics – Institutions shared with the Faculty Hospital Brno - Institutions of Reproductive Medicine – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Zdeňka Kroupová

Prerequisites (in Czech)

( VLFA0822p Pharmacology II - L || VLFA0722p Pharmacology - L ) && VLNE9X1p Neurology - lecture && VLPY9X1p Psychiatry - lect. && VLVZ9X1c Health Care and Polcy && VSDV9X22p Dermatovenerology II-l && VLAM9X1p Intensive care med. - lect. && VLVL9X66c Internal medicine part 6 && ( VLVL9X65c Internal medicine part 5 || VLVL7X65c Internal medicine part 5 ) && VLPD1033c Pediatrics III-practice && VLIN9X22 Infectious diseases II && ( VSAJ0222 English 1 II -p || VSNJ0222 German 1 II -p || VSFJ0222 French 1 II -p || VSSJ0222 Spanish 1 II -p ) && VLSD7X1p Forensic med.-lectures && VSEI7X1 EPI && VLOL7X1 Ophthal. && VSOT7X1p Otorhinolaryngology-lect. && VSLP7X1 Medical Psychology && VLPL9X1 Prevent. Med. && VLON091 Clinical oncology && VLST7X1p stomatolology -l && VSLE7X1p Medical Ethics 2 - lecture && VLPG1022c Gynecol. and obst. II- pract. && VYCET(3, VSAT081 Fundament.of AntimicrobTherap , VLKA091 Clinical anatomy , VSPM071 Palliative Medicine , VLKB091 Clinical Chemistry , VLKF091 Clinical Pharmacology , BMBS051 Biostatistics - basic course , VLPM071 Legal Aspects in Medicine , VLEP041 The Economics of Health Care , VLIA081 Clin.immunol. alergol. , VLKM081 Commun.in medicine , VLRL041 Medicinal plants , VLTL081 Sports Medicine , VSAL081 Anaesth. and Tr. of Pain I , VSFP071 Neonatal Physiology and Pathol ) && VLCH9X33c Surgery III - practicals && VLPX102t Vacational Training

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

• General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
• General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL)

Course objectives

TThe Obstetrics and Gynecology course involves the supervision and appropriate intervention during, normal and complicated pregnancy and delivery, as well as the recognition, prevention, management and surveillance of diseases affecting reproductive health in women. The course gives students understanding, basic knowledge and skills in epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of common problems in obstetrics and gynecology; reproductive health matters, including family planning, infertility and maternal care, emphasizing wellness and prevention in addition to treatment of disease. The aim of the course is to attain standards of knowledge and practical skills adequate to start postgraduate training in medicine and reach level of competence defined in the Log Book. The course graduates should be able to keep with international standards of patient care by reaching high level of clinical skills, bedside care skills, surgical skills, in addition to updated medical knowledge. The students learning outcomes and competences mainly cover medical knowledge and skills to evaluate the data about the follow-up of pregnancy and birth, and the management of the gynecological diseases, to get the new information and to make decisions for similar situations, to perform the gynecological procedures. The students will achieve the appropriate attitude.

Syllabus

• The practice should help reaching high level of clinical skills, bedside care skills, surgical skills in diagnostics and treatment of pathologies:
• OBSTERICS Pysiological changes during pregnancy Antenatal care Drugs use during pregnancy and lactation Abortion Ectopic pregnancy Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Hypertension in pregnancy Preeclampsia Diabetes in pregnancy Bleeding disorders with pregnancy Multiple pregnancy Analgesia & anaesthesia in labour Breech presentation Uterine action in pregnancy (normal and abnormal ) Perineal vaginal & cervical injuries Rupture uterus Antepartum hemorrhage (Placenta previa ) Antepartum hemorrhage (Abruptio placentae ) Shock in obstetrics Normal puerperium Venous thrombosis in obstetrics Caesaria Section Induction of abortion & labour Dysmaturity and Prematurity Perinatal asphyxia Ultrasound in obstetrics Prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies
• GYNAECOLOGY Functional uterine bleeding Amenorrhoea Amenorrhoea Climacteric and HRT Dysmenorrhoea, Premenstrual syndroma Infertility Assisted reproductive techniques ART Vaginitis and vulvitis Salpingitis Cervivitis Sexually Transmitted diseases AIDS Tumours & masses of vulva & vagina Cancer cervix Malignant diseases of body of uterus – carcinoma Fibromyomata treatment and modern trends Endometriosis Ovarian tumors Endoscopy Vaginal smear and colposcopy Urinary incontinence Contraception (pills ) Contraception (I.U.D ) Contraception (other methods )

Literature

• ZWINGER, Antonín, Jiří JELÍNEK, Pavel VENTRUBA and Vít UNZEITIG. Porodnictví (Obstetrics). Praha: Galén, 2004, 532 pp. Galén, 2004. ISBN 80-7262-257-9. info
• ROB, Lukáš, Alois MARTAN and Karel CITTERBART. Gynekologie. 2., dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2008, xxiv, 319. ISBN 9788072625017. info
• ČECH, Evžen, Zdeněk HÁJEK, Karel MARŠÁL and Bedřich SRP. Porodnictví. 2., přepracované a doplně. Praha: Grada, 2007, 544 s. ISBN 9788024713038. info
• OATS, Jeremy and Suzanne ABRAHAM. Llewellyn-Jones fundamentals of obstetrics and gynaecology. 8th ed. Edinburgh: Mosby, 2005, x, 365. ISBN 0723433291. info
• SYMONDS, E. M. and Ian M. SYMONDS. Essential obstetrics and gynaecology. Illustrated by Robert Britton. 4th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2004, vii, 394. ISBN 0443071470. info

Teaching methods

Teaching and learning is scheduled into three blocks. Each block is planned for 5 working days in the inpatients and outpatients facilities of the Ob/Gyn department. The teaching process starts from 07h00 and lasts to 13h00. Teaching schedule includes theoretical session, teaching and learning with simulators and patients and students formative assessment of clinical case.

Assessment methods

Theoretical Assessment

Continuous - Ten true/false and/or short-answer questions, on the day after each daily theoretical session, to be answered in 15 minutes.

Final - Twenty multiple choice and/or matching questions, to be answered in 20 minutes, on the last day of each block.

Practical Assessment

Continuous - Completion of a log-book, including the elaboration and discussion of a clinical history.

Final - Resolution of one clinical problem with simulators, instruments and equipment, in the presence of the teachers, with a maximal duration of 10 minutes. Special oral theoretical assessment to improve the classification, performed whenever possible by the discipline coordinator or another teacher. It may be substituted by a written elaboration or presentation of a paper (letter to the Editor, case report, review or original research).

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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