Course title: Orthopedics/traumatology
Course Code: M551
Credit hours: 2.25
JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL SURGERY
COURSE TITLE: Orthopedics/Traumatology
COURSE CODE:
M551
CREDIT HOURS: 2.25
CALENDER DESCRIPTION: 2 Weeks
COURSE COORDINATOR: Dr: F. M. Darwish
I. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this course, students are expected to:
1-To take proper history and perform physical examination
2-To investigate patients with orthopedic disorders.
3-To know types of fractures, their classifications, and complications.
4-To know a wide spectrum of orthopedic diseases
II. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
_ Seminars.
_ Bed-side teaching.
III. EVALUATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:
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In-course evaluation = 20%
Final clinical exam. = 40%
Final written exam. = 40%
IV. RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOKS:
Adam’s: Outline of orthopedics.
Adam’s: Outline of fractures.
Apply’s: System of orthopedics.
MacRae’s: Clinical evaluation.
Malkawi : Principles of Disorders and Injuries of the Musculoskeletal system
Seminars
1,2-Fractures , Complications, and management.
3- Bone and Joint Infections
4- Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH).
5- Knee Problems
6- Hand.
7- Spine
8,9- Shoulder and elbow joints
10- Hip disorders other than DDH
11- Bone Tumers
12-Foot and Ankle
13- Pediatric Fractures
14- Degenerative Arthritis
15- Inflammatory Arthritis
16- Metabolic bone diseases
Objectives
(1,2)
-Diagnose different types of fractures.
-Classify fractures.
-Identify fracture complications.-Outline treatment of fractures
(3)
-Define Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
-Identify the signs and symptoms of bone and joint infections.
-Understand the pathogenesis.
-Investigations in use.-Outline the treatment ways.
(4)
-Outline the etiological theories.
-Demonstrate the clinical skills necessary for clinical diagnosis.
-Numirate possiple complications.
-Introduction to different imaging studies .
-Outline treatment measures
(5)
-How to examine the Knee.
-Classify Knee Disorders.
-Identify swellings around the knee.
-Investigations of knee disorders.
-Outline treatment modalities of knee disorders
(6)
-Understand important anatomical aspects-Diagnose hand deformities. ( Congenital and Acquired ).
-Identify hand infections.
-Identify hand functions.
-Investigate hand pathologies-Outline the treatment principles for hand problems.
(7)
-Examine the spine.
-Classify spinal disorders.
-High light the importance of neurological findings.
-Investigate spinal disorders.
-Treatment plan for different spinal disorders.(8,9)
-Demonstrate clinical skills in finding abnormal signs.
-Classify shoulder and elbow disorders.
-Investigate disordersof these joints.
-Plan treatment protocols for disorders affecting these joints.
(10)
- Expose the student to the pathologies which affect the hip.
- detect the clinical signs which lead to the diagnosis.
-Ask for the appropriate investigation.
- Have an idea about the ways of treatment.
(11)
-Define tumors.
-Classify tumors in general.
-Classify bone tumors.
-Identify the name origin of bone tumors.
-Identify complications of bone tumors.
-Plan the treatment of bone tumors.
(12)
- Name the most common disorders which affect the foot and ankle.
-Identify how these disorders presents
-Have an idea about the treatment modalities.
(13)
-High light the deference between adult and pediatric bone fractures.
-Identify the significance of pediatric fractures.
-Define the complication of children fractures.
-Classify growth plate injuries.-Plan the treatment of pediatric fractures.
(14)
- Define OA.
- What joints are affected most.
- Identify the clinical symptoms.
- Identify the radiological signs.
- Know what arthroplasty means
(15)
- Name the types of arthritis.
- How to approach cases of arthritis.
- Identify points in history which could lead to diagnosis.
- To be exposed to treatment options.
(16)
- Name the metabolic disorders.
- identify the effects of such disorders on the patient and the society.
- Know the pathophysiology of metabolic disorders.
- Know the ways of presentation and ways of treatment.
Daily schedule:
8
- 9 am : Morning Report.
9
- 10 am : Seminar.
10
– 12 am : Bedside teaching ( Wards, Clinics )
12– 1 pm : Break.
1 – 2 pm : Seminar
2- 3
pm : Case discussion.
3 – 5 pm : History and physical examination