Materials for Lectures

This study material is intended to provide a summary of basic statistical measures, methods and tests used to describe and to evaluate various sets of medical data. The theory offered here should help students of General Medicine, who selected an elective course Biostatistics, to learn terms and concepts they will work with during practical lessons. Presentations create only the foundation necessary for understanding the role of statistics in clinical scientific research and recommended resources should be also used to study particular topics in more details.

This work was supported by the national grant KEGA 011UPJŠ-4/2019 "Increasing of competences and critical thinking level in students of medical study programs using simulation tools of Problem-Based Learning and Evidence-Based Medicine".

The authors provide students of the Faculty of Medicine at UPJŠ in Košice with materials for individual lectures in the subject of General Medicine as a foundation before the lecture presentation and for a better understanding of the topic. The presentations cover topics according to the course curriculum, which students are expected to master and complete.

Educational videos are intended for studying topics of external morphology including brain and spinal cord. Teachers from Department of Anatomy show important anatomical structures for students of General medicine. Videos can be used for individual studying to make learning simpler, faster and more efficient.

Lectures are intended for students of general medicine as supplementary education material of Surgical Propedeutics. The lectures include: Introduction to Surgery – propedeutic study, History development of surgery, Patient history and symptoms of surgical diseases and its value for establishment of proper diagnosis, Basic principles of clinical examination and many other related topics.

Practical exercises from Medical Chemistry is a set of experimental exercises designed for a better understanding of the subject. Laboratory manuals for the practical exercises are arranged into weeks according to the syllabus (WT) and contain theoretical introduction as well as experimental procedures for each exercise. Published material represents an effective instrument for understanding of the basic principles of Medical Chemistry.

Revised and supplemented first published version “Practical exercises from Medical Chemistry”. Authors: Stupák M., Rabajdová M., Mašlanková J., Urban P., Tomečková V., Mareková M.

Topics for practical lessons from Anatomy 3 are developed for foreign students of General Medicine and are arranged into the teaching weeks according to the study plan. Individual topics include skull, muscles of head and neck, cranial nerves, cervical plexus, regional anatomy of head and neck and neuroanatomy.

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.