STANDARD COURSE SYLLABUS
for academic year 2013/2014
Name of subject:
Director of unit
conduction the course:
Faculty:
Course of study:
Level of studies
Form of studies
Year:
Type of subject
Language of
instruction:
Description of subject matter – Instructional program
Module
Pediatrics
code
according
to
standards
from A to
G
Prof. Barbara Iwańczak MD PhD
Medical
medical
Unitary MMed
full-time X extramural
IV
obligatory X elective 
English
Name of unit conducting course
I Katedra i Klinika Pediatrii, Alergologii i Kardiologii
II Katedra i Klinika Pediatrii, Gastroenterologii i
Żywienia
Katedra i Klinika Nefrologii Pediatrycznej
Katedra i Klinika Transplantacji Szpiku, Onkologii i
Hematologii Dziecięcej
Total:
E
Semester:
Winter semester (hrs.)
L
C
S
12
15
7,5
VII, VIII
Summer semester (hrs.)
L
C
S
6
15
7,5
-
4
-
15
-
7,5
-
2
6
15
7,5
16
30
15
14
30
15
Educational goals (goals for lessons set by instructor, related to the results of education, max. 6 items)
C1.
1. Physical examination of the children, medical interview.
2. Morphologic-physiologic distinctness in organs and systems during childhood (digestive system,
respiratory system, urinary system, hematopoietic system).
3. The basic rules of the alimentation of healthy and sick children.
4. Prophylaxis of the diseases of digestive system, respiratory system, urinary system and
hematopoietic system.
5. Diseases of digestive system, respiratory system, urinary system and hematopoietic system in
the developmental period.
6. Congenital malfornations and genetic diseases.
Matrix of educational results for subjects in reference to methods for verifying intended
educational results and manner of conducting lessons.
Number of
Description of educational result (in conformance with
Methods for
Manner of
detailed
educational
results
defined
in
standards)
educational
verifying
lessons:
result
achievement of
** provide
intended
educational results
*
oral response
symbol
E.W1.
Knows environmental and epidemiological conditions of
the most frequent diseases in children
E.W2.
Knows the basic rules of the alimentation of healthy and
sick children, knows the basic rules of vaccination in
children, knows the rules of monitoring of children’s health
bilance
oral response
L, S, C
E.W3.
Knows and understands reasons, symptoms, diagnostic and
therapeutic options in most often diseases in children
oral response
L, S, C
L, S, C
a) heart malformations, myocarditis, endocarditis,
pericarditis, cardyomyopathy, heart rhythm abnormalities,
heart failure, hypertension, syncope
b) acute and chronic diseases of the upper and lower
resoiratory tract, congenital malformations of the
resoiratory tract, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, bronchial
asthma, allergic rhinitis, urticaria, anaphylactic shock
c) blood anemia, blood clotting disturbances, bone marrow
failure, childhood malignancies, inc. solid tumors typical
for childhood period
d) acute and chronic abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea,
constipation, gastrointestinal bleeding, gastric and duodenal
ulcer disesase, inflammatory bowel diseases, diseases of the
pancreas, cholestasis, liver diseases, other congenital
malformations and acquired diseases of the gastrointestinal
tract,
e) urinary tract infections, congenital malformations of the
urinary tract, nephrotic syndrome, nephrolithiasis, acute and
chronic renal failure, acute and chronic inflammatory
diseases of the kidneys, disturbances in urination, vesicoureteral reflux disease
E.W6.
Knows the most often observed life-threatening events in
children and knows therapeutic rules
oral response
L, S, C
E.U2.
Is able to perform medical interview with child and child’s
family
oral response
L, S, C
E.U4.
Is able to perform complete physical examination of the
child (from newborn to adolescent child)
oral response
L, S, C
E.U7.
Is able to estimate general appearance of the patient
oral response
L, S, C
E.U9.
Is able to compare anthropomethric results and results of
blood pressure with values from percentile charts
oral response
L, S, C
E.U12.
Is able to perform the differential diagnosis of most often
observed diseases in children
oral response
L, S, C
E.U13.
Is able to estimate and describe psychosomatic staus of the
oral response
L, S, C
patient
E.U14.
Is able to recognize direct life-threatening events
oral response
L, S, C
E.U16.
Is able to make the plan of diagnostic, therapeutic and
prophylactic procedures
oral response
L, S, C
E.U17.
Is able to make an analysis of interactions between drugs
and drug side-effects
oral response
L, S, C
E.U24.
Is able to analyse results of laboratory tests
oral response
L, S, C
E.U25.
Is able to introduce nutritional therapy (inc. enteral and
parenteral nutrition)
oral response
L, S, C
E.U28.
Is able to take biological material for laboratory diagnostics
oral response
L, S, C
E.U29.
Is able to perform basic medical procedures, incl.: a)
measure of the body temperature, measure of the heart rate,
noninvasive measure of the blood pressure, b) monitoring
of the basic vital parameters using cardiomonitor,
pulsoksymeter, c) spirometry testing, oxygen therapy,
artifitial ventilation, d) intravenous infusions, intramuscular
and subcutaneous injections, peripheral veins caniulation,
collect blood samples from peripheral veins, collect blood
samples for the blood culture, collect arterial blood
samples, collect arterialised blood, e) collect samples from
the nose, throat, skin, plural cavity, f) introduction the
catheter in to urinary bladder, stomach, stomach lavage,
enema, h) simple strip tests, glucose blood level
oral response
L, S, C
E.U30.
Assists medical pcoedures: a) blood transfusion, b)
pleural cavity drainage,
c) skin tests, d) intradermique
and skaryphication tests and is able to interpretate tests
results
oral response
L, S, C
E.U32.
Is able to plan specialistic consultations
oral response
L, S, C
*e.g.. test, presentation, oral response, essay, report, colloquium, oral examination, written examination;
** L- lecture; S- seminar; C- class; EL- e-learning;
Student work input (balance of ECTS points)
Lessons on-site (hrs.)
120
Own work (hrs.)
39
Summary of student workload
159
ECTS points for subject
9
Remarks
Content of lessons: (please provide the subject of individual lessons, keeping in mind the need to contribute to the intended
educational results)
Upper and lower respiratory tract inflammations. Laryngitis, tracheitis, pharyngitis. Brochitis, bronchiolitis. Clinical
symptoms, diagnostic procedures, differential diagnosis.
Viral, bacterial and atypical pneumoniae. Clinical symptoms in newborns, infants and children. Diagnostic
procedures, treatment.
Allergic diseases as a social problem, epidemiology, basics of ethiopatogenic mechanisms (environmental and
genetics).
Functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract in infants and adolescents
Chronic abdominal pain in children, symptomatology, current diagnostic procedures.
Acute diarrhoea. Treatment of the water-base-electrolyte disturbances.
Urinary tract infections. Diagnostics, clinical syptoms, treatment. Congenital malformations of the urinary tract,
diagnostics, treatment, consequences.
Acute renal failure: etiology, clinical syndromes, diagnostic procedures, treatment. Indications for dialisotherapy.
Hematologic diseases in newborns. Blood anemias in children. Bleeding disorders in children.
Lymphoproliferative diseases of the blood. Blood leucemias in children. Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas
in children.
Allergic rhinitis. Allergic diseases of the skin in infants. Diagnostic allergic skin tests.
Bronchial asthma, clinical symptoms, diagnostic procedures (functional tests of the respiratory tract), treatment.
Lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly.
Celiac disease and its manifestations in children. Chronic diarrhoea in children. Food intolerance and ford alergy. Diagnostics
procedures, differential diagnostics.
Maldigestion and malabsorption syndroms. Cystic fibrosis – clinical manifestations in children.
Urinary lithiasis - etiology, diagnostic and therapeuthic procedures, risk factors of urinary lithiasis.
Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome - ethiopatogenesis, morphologic types, clinical symptoms, recommendations for the treatment of
the 1st time disease, clinical procedures in children with recurrent disease.
Acute and chronic glomerulonephritis: etiology, clinical course of the disease, treatment.
Histiocytosis. Myelodysplastic syndromem.
Diagnostic and treatment of solid tumours in children. Bone tumours in children. Soft tissue tumours.
Primary and secondary literature
Nelson’s textbook of pediatrics. 18th Edition, Saunders 2007
Philips Lanzkowsky: Manual of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Elsevier Inc., 4 th ed., 2005
Requirements concerning instructional aids (e.g. laboratory, multimedia projector, other …)
Conditions for successful completion of course:
Attendence at classes (obligatory), clinical seminars (obligatory) and lectures (recommended), colloquium
Name and address of unit conducting course, contact information (tel./email):
II Katedra i Klinika Pediatrii, Gastroenterologii i Żywienia (with Depts listed on the
head of the Syllabus
Tel: 71-7703045; e-mail: gastrped@gastro.am.wroc.pl
Person responsible for the course for a given year
Prof. dr hab. med. Barbara Iwańczak
Signature of head of unit conducting the course
Signature of dean
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Date of syllabus drafting: 31/07/2013