Materials for Lectures

The Clinical Biochemistry subject in the 5th year of medical studies builds on the knowledge acquired in Medical Biochemistry during the 2nd year. It involves applying biochemistry and pathobiochemistry to laboratory findings interpretation. The subject covers biochemical investigation methods for diseases of selected organs through lectures and seminars. It places particular emphasis on water, ion, and acid-base balance disorders, as well as prevalent conditions like diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia. Practical training in interpreting laboratory findings integrates patient case studies and model patients.

The lecture describes mild cognitive impairment and specific types of dementia, with focus on Alzheimer´s dementia, Lewy body dementia, dementia in patients with Parkinson disease, frontotemporal dementia and vascular dementia. Students can find here informations regarding organic (including symptomatic) mental disorders, especially delirium, organic hallucinosis and depression induced by somatic illness. In the last part of lecture are informations abou stages of mental retardation; the very last part of lecture is dedicatde to specific neurodevelopmental disorders.

We are going to talk about acute psychotic states, acute intoxications, withdrawal syndromes, acute mania, depression with suicidal thoughts, qualitative disorders of conscioussness, acute anxiety, affective reactions in personality disorders, acute adverse side effects caused by medication: serotonin syndrome, neuroleptic malignant sy, acute dystonia, akathizia.

Substance-induced disorders include medical conditions that can be directly attributed to the use of a substance. These conditions include intoxication, withdrawal, substance-induced delirium, substance-induced psychosis, and substance-induced mood disorders. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. 

The lecture is a teaching material for the course Psychiatry 1, it is intended for fourth year General Medicine and Dental Medicine students. It describes the basics of general - descriptive psychopathology with a focus on disorders of will, action, drives and personality disorders. General - descriptive psychopathology is the in-depth description, categorization, and diagnosis of abnormal experiences as reported by the patient and as manifested in their behavior. It uses phenomenological analysis to confirm the universality of the events experienced.

Problem-based teaching with a differential diagnostic approach to individual diseases within the sub-disciplines and mastering the issue of acute conditions in individual sub-disciplines. Differential diagnosis of jaundice. Alcoholic liver disease. Acid – base balance disorders. Immunodeficiency. Immunomodulatory, immunosupressive and immunorestaurant treatment. Syncope. Shock.Paraneoplastic syndrome. Differential diagnosis of chest pain. Medical genetics in clinical practice. Focal infection and sepsis. Fever – differential diagnosis in internal medicine. Differential diagnosis of oedema in internal medicine.

The presentation describes the factores important in etiology, epidemiology and pathogenesis of mental disorders. There are present informations about suicidal behavior, parasuicidal behavior (how to differentiate between them). Informations regarding prevention in psychiatry (primary, secondary and tertiary) are included too.

Lectures on Biology 1, Biology 2, Medical and Human Biology 1 and Medical and Human Biology 2 are intended for the 1st year students studying General Medicine and Dental Medicine at UPJŠ, Faculty of Medicine. The published set of lectures is supposed to serve as auxiliary study material for individual biology topics according to the current course syllabus.

The presentation was used during a lecture for students of Dental Medicine from the subject Pathological Physiology. It introduces basic physiological and pathophysiological terms and deals with an overview of motor disorders at different levels of the nervous system and muscles, including examples.

This publication is intended mainly for students of medicine studying at the UPJŠ in Košice, Faculty of Medicine. The textbook covers the basic knowledge of selected topics of general, physical, inorganic, organic and bioorganic chemistry required for successful completion of the course of Medical Chemistry. Knowledge of the structures and functions of chemical substances and compounds, as well as their interactions and factors of surroundings influencing those interactions is very important for next study medical biochemistry incoming physicians. For better and easier understanding is the text appropriately supplemented with figures, tables, and numerous of chemical schemes. The separate part of this publication presents the chemistry of the most important dental materials used in clinical practise of future dentists, including the properties of metals, polymers and impression materials.