Course Unit Title:
Basic General Surgery
Course Unit Code:
MED324
Type of Course
Unit:(Compulsory/Optional)
Compulsory
Level of Course Unit:(first,
second or third cycle)
Year of Study:
Semester when the unit is
delivered:
Number of ECTS credits
allocated:
Name of lecturer(s):
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
3
6
5
TBA
Learning Outcomes of the course unit:
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
• Define the pathophysiology of tissue injuries, wounds, burns, frosts, electricity shocks,
radiation, bites and stings.
• Describe the biological response to surgical damage and tissue healing.
• Explain the basic principles of surgery.
• Carry out the preoperative assessment of surgical risk.
• Demonstrate that they have acquired expertise about the general principles of
anesthesia, recovery and the techniques used for the vital support of the surgical
patient.
• Demonstrate that they have acquired the skills to apply the standards of aseptic
techniques in surgery.
• Identify the basic surgical materials.
• Describe the major postoperative complications, surgical hemorrhagic and
thromboembolic complications.
• Perform basic surgical procedures: wound cleansing, debridement, hemostasis,
suturing wounds, removal of suture material, incisions, drainage, and local anesthesia.
• Manage the treatment of wounds (cures, dressings, bandages, immobilizations, etc),
burns, frost injuries, injuries from electricity and radiation, bites and stings.
• Recall the principles and indications of prophylaxis against surgical infection.
• Recall the principles and indications of antithrombotic prophylaxis.
• Recall the basic principles of solid organ and tissue transplants.
Mode of Delivery:
Prerequisites and corequisites:
Recommended optional
program components:
Face- to- face
None
None
Course Contents:
Objective:
The objective of the course is to familiarize students with
• The principles of surgical treatment of disease and surgical decision-making
• The use of aseptic and antiseptic techniques in surgical settings
• The methods and applications of anaesthetics
Description:
• Physiopathology of wounds.
• Physiopathology of burns, frost injuries and injuries due to electricity and radiation.
• Biological responses to surgical damage on and healing.
• Basic principles of surgery.
• Preoperative assessment of surgical risk.
• General principles of anesthesia, recovery and the techniques used for the vital support
of the surgical patient.
• Standards for asepsis in surgery.
• Postoperative complications, surgical bleeding and thromboembolic complications.
• Principles and indications of prophylaxis in surgical infection.
• Basic principles of transplants of solid and tissue organs.
Recommended
or
required reading:
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery; Brunicardi, F.C.; 9th; 9780071547697; McGraw-Hill; 2009
Principles and Practice of Surgery; Garden, J.; 5th; 9780443101571; Churchill Livingstone; 2007
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern
Surgical Practice; Courtney M. Townsend; 19th; 9781437715606; Saunders; 2012
Current Diagnosis and Treatment Surgery: Thirteenth Edition
(Lange Current Series); Gerard M. Doherty; 13; 9780071635158; McGraw-Hill Medical; 2009
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS:
Clinical Surgery; Henry, M.M.; erd; 978-0702030703;
Saunders; 2012
Current Surgical Therapy (includes CD-ROM); Cameron, John;
10th; 978-1437708233; Churchill Livingstone; 2011
Planned learning activities
and teaching methods:
Assessment methods and
criteria:
Language of Instruction:
Class Instruction
Practice Lab/Clinic
Consultations
Mid-Term Examination
Final Examination
Assignment /Lab
Class Participation
English
29 Hours
52 Hours
15 Hours
30%
40%
30%
100%
Work Placement(s):
Place of Teaching:
No
Theory:
Regular Classroom
European University Cyprus
Nicosia
Practical Training:
Public and Private Hospitals