Undergraduate studies - Department of Internal Medicine

Introduction to General Medicine

• Objectives: Introduction to the principles of good medical practice.
• Introduction to clinical and communication skills.
• Overview on different manifestation of systemic diseases.
• Overview on nutritional disorders.
• Overview on environmental diseases.
• Introduction on immunological disorders.
• Overview on electrolyte disturbances.
• Overview on acid base disturbances.

Assessment Modes

• Daily interviewing within lectures.
• Short quizzes.
• Midterm examination (1 hour).
• Final term examination (3 hours).
• Exam usually include (best of five answers, multiple choices questions, short essays and clinical grey cases).

Lectures

• Introduction (Principals of medical care, doctor patient relationship, medical ethics).
• Jaundice.
• Diarrhea and constipation.
• Weight loss.
• Introduction to blood diseases (Definition of Manifestations, anemia, bleeding, lecocytosis, granulocytosis, high ESR, Physical signs of blood disorders, bleeding tendency, pallor, polycythemia, lympnodes enlargement, splenomegaly).
• Blood disorders secondary to systemic diseases.
• Nutrition and nutritional factors in disease (functional anatomy and physiology of nutrition energy balance (fat, amino acid & vitamin).
• Nutrition and nutritional factors in micronutrients disease (malnutrition, starvation and famine, Obesity, Nutritional support of the hospital patient).
• Diseases of 'micronutrients'-vitamins and minerals (fat-soluble vitamins, water-soluble vitamins).
• Diseases of 'micronutrients'-vitamins and minerals (Minerals).
• Manifestation of renal diseases (Introduction to renal system, clinical examination of the kidney and urinary tract, functional anatomy, physiology and investigations, presenting problems in renal and urinary tract disease, hematuria, oliguria, polyuria).
• Manifestation of renal diseases (Nocturia, dysuria, urgency and strangury, oedema, protein urea, glomerular diseases, tubular disease).
• Integrated water and electrolyte balance (Introduction to water and electrolyte distribution, biochemistry, physiology, investigation of water and electrolytes, disorders of sodium balance, functional anatomy and physiology of renal sodium handling, presenting problems in disorders of sodium balance, sodium depletion (hypovolaemia), sodium excess (hypervolaemia).
• Electrolyte balance (disorders of potassium balance, functional anatomy and physiology of renal potassium handling, presenting problems in disorders of potassium balance, hypokalaemia, Hyperkalaemia).
• Disorders of acid-base balance (functional anatomy and physiology of acid-base homeostasis, presenting problems in disorders of acid-base balance).
• Disorders of acid-base balance (metabolic acidosis, etiology and clinical assessment, metabolic alkalosis, etiology and clinical assessment, respiratory acidosis, etiology and clinical assessment, respiratory alkalosis, etiology and clinical assessment).
• Edema and ascites.
• Cough.
• Hemoptysis.
• Cyanosis.
• Introduction to neurological manifestation (Introduction to CNS, clinical examination of the CNS, functional anatomy, physiology and investigations, presenting problems, consciousness).
• Introduction to neurological manifestation (Pain assessment, analysis, perception, causes and types).
• Environmental diseases (Introduction, environmental effects on health, investigations in environmental health, preventive medicine).
• Environmental Diseases (environmental poisons, radiation exposure, extremes of temperature, heat stroke, high altitude, air travel, drowning and near-drowning, poverty and affluence).
• Immunological factors in disease (functional anatomy, physiology and investigations, properties of immune responses, the innate immune system, the adaptive immune system, cellular immunity).
• Immune Deficiency (presenting problems in immune deficiency, complement pathway deficiencies).
• Primary Deficiencies of the Adaptive Immune System.
• Secondary Immune Deficiencies.
• The Inflammatory Response.
• Autoimmune Disease.

Problem Based Learning (Medpbl-31)

12 hours/Semester (1 hour/Week).

Objectives: Introduction to the principles of problem based learning.

Topics

• Overview on the thermoregulation and clinical examination of the febrile patient and the definition of fever and hyperthermia.
• Overview on edema regarding types, causes, differential diagnosis, management.
• Overview on Cough.
• Overview on abdominal pain.
• Overview on Jaundice.
• Overview on hematemesis and malena.
• Overview on constipation.
• Overview on diarrhea.

Assessment Modes

• Daily interviewing within lectures.
• Short quizzes.
• Final term examination.(1 hour) Exam usually includes best of five answers.