Specialty medicine: general medicineLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You know the most common surgical, paediatric, psychiatric, dermatological, venerological, geriatric, gynaecological, odontological, otolarygological, reumatological and internal diseases.

You know the differential diagnostics between those diseases and musculoskeletal diseases.

You understand the meaning of these diseases in clinical work.

You know the patient consultation system concerning them in our health care system.

Content

How to deepen the theoretical knowledge of pathology and its application to clinical work?

How do you apply your anatomical and physiological knowledge to the functioning of different organ systems in internal organ diseases.

Accomplishment methods

Students can:
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with customers, users and target groups.
e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.
f. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.