The course is designed to educate the students about the diagnosis and treatment of common medical illnesses. It helps the students have a sufficient knowledge of rare diseases, advances and technologies in medicine.
Course Objectives
- Proper history, examination and diagnosis.
- Relevant investigations, their interpretation with reasonable accuracy.
- Appropriate treatment and early disposal.
- Prompt diagnosis and management of emergencies.
- Update knowledge.
- Ethical principles during work.
- Seek and give consultation when required.
- Sympathetic behavior with patients and their relatives.
- Respects patients’ rights and privileges.
- Supplement information about their illness.
- Consider seeking second opinion when requested by patients.
- Laboratory tests, radiologic examinations and special procedures, (i.e., blood drawing, intravenous lines, arterial blood gases) to work up and treat patients’ problems