Internal Medicine II

General

• Code: 278-190303
• Semester: 3rd
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: Special Background
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Theory (3)
• ECTS Units: 3
• Course homepage: https://moodle.teithe.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=196
• Instructors: Kazakos Kyriakos
• Class Schedule:
  • Mon 14:00 - 17:00: Αίθουσα 3

Course Contents

• Introductory concepts and definitions.
• Clasical methods of clinical approach, such as inspection, percussion, auscultation, palpation. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Modern laboratory methods, such as ultrasound, CT and MRI, gamma scan and PET scan.
• Haematopoietic diseases: anaemias, leukaemias, lymphomas.
• Diseases of the digestive system: peptic ulcer, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, pancreatitis, biliary diseases, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis.
• Respiratory diseases: bronchial asthma, chronic respiratory lung disease community pneumonia.
• Infectious diseases: mode of transmission, prophylaxis and diagnostic approach and treatment of the main infectious diseases prevalent in the Greek population.
• Most common types of neoplasms.

Educational Goals

The aim of this module is to provide nursing students with knowledge about diseases of various systems of the human body. Students will become familiar with the basic pathogenic mechanisms of diseases causation and modes of transmission, current methods of diagnosis, direct and indirect complications of diseases, their therapeutic approach and the required preventive and protective measures.

General Skills

• Adapting to new situations.
• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Project planning and management.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Powerpoint presentations.
• Support of the learning process through the electronic platform moodle.

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

• Written exams.