VLVL9X66c Internal medicine part 6

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/3/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Petr Brhel, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Eliška Dastychová, CSc. (lecturer)
MUDr. Petr Malenka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Markéta Petrovová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Bohdana Furiková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Miroslav Souček, CSc.
Department of Occupational Medicine – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable of Seminar Groups
VLVL9X66c/09: Mon 22. 9. to Fri 26. 9. each working day 7:30–12:20 N02015
VLVL9X66c/10: Mon 12. 1. to Fri 16. 1. each working day 7:30–12:20 N02015
VLVL9X66c/11: Mon 15. 12. to Fri 19. 12. each working day 7:30–12:20 N02015
VLVL9X66c/12: Mon 1. 12. to Fri 5. 12. each working day 7:30–12:20 N02015
VLVL9X66c/16: Mon 6. 10. to Fri 10. 10. each working day 7:30–12:20 N02015
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( VLFA0822p Pharmacology II - L || VLFA0722p Pharmacology - L ) && VLVL7X61c 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
This education give students basic theoretical and practical knowledge about occupational medicine, occupational diseases, injuries and industrial hygiene. The students will be informed about health risks connected with work in certain branches (some chemicals, noise, vibration, overloading of locomotor system, dust, ionizing radiation, psychical and physical load), about assessment of the work and workplace exposition factors and about health risks. The most common and the most serious occupational diseases, occupational accidents and work-related diseases are refered. Students will be informed about some basic information about principles of some occupational diseases development (occupational lung diseases, allergic, skin disorders, occupationally related disorders of central and peripheral nervous system, vascular, locomotor system, cancer and infectious diseases, disturbance of voice, intoxications), their diagnostics, prevention and therapy. Students will be informed about basic laws connected with occupational diseases, Czech list of occupational diseases, European Schedule of occupational diseases, duties of physicians concerning suspection of the occupational origin of a disease, notification, social and economic impact of occupational diseases. The main task of this subject is to give students basic information about certain occupational diseases, diagnostics, prevention and therapy, assessment of health capability for work, occupational preventive care, preventive examinations of workers, occupational health services, travel medicine, personal protection. The students will see practical accesses in the basic examinational methods (pulmonary function tests - spirometry, rhinomanometry, audiometry, plethysmography, ECG, chest X-ray, blood tests, skin tests etc.
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. Aims and functions of an occupational health service, types of service 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, poisoning by lead or a compound of lead, poisoning by a nitro- or amino- or chloroderivate of benzene or of a homologue of benzene, poisoning by organophosphates, poisoning by chemical asphyxiants (carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide) 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, dysbarism, disorders due to heat Occupational lung disorders, pneumoconioses (silicosis, coal workers pneumoconiosis, asbestosis), asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis (farmers lung), acute inflammation, malignancy Occupational dermatoses, primary irritant contact dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, neoplasms Occupational infections, infections due to exposure to infected humans or their tissues, infections transmitted from animals to humans (zoonoses), travel-associated infectious diseases 4 Mental health at work 5 The main areas of law relevant to occupational health , workers compensation law
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
  • BRHEL, Petr and Karel PICKA. Úvod do průmyslové toxikologie (Industrial Toxicology). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 58 pp. ISBN 80-210-1738-4. info
  • Textbook of clinical occupational and environmental medicine. Edited by Linda Rosenstock. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders, 2005, xviii, 133. ISBN 0721689744. info
  • 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
Assessment methods
The teaching contains lectures and class exercises. 100% presence is required. The final classification as an oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
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, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, autumn 2018, spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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