11TH - 12TH SEMESTERS

Duties and responsibilities assigned to students, who should apply knowledge in practice, retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies, adapt to new situations, make decisions, work autonomously or in teams, work in an international context, work in an interdisciplinary team, generate new research ideas, design and manage projects, appreciate diversity and multiculturality, respect natural environment, demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues, be critical and self-critical, advance free, creative and causative thinking.

Duties and responsibilities assigned to students, and also the role that is expected to take are almost similar to those of a First Year Medical Student. However, they are not completely the same. All student activities must be under the strict guidance of specific trainers, with whom they will cooperate closely. The proposals of the students related to the diagnosis, medical and nursing instructions and treatment of surgical patients are expected, encouraged and are welcome from all the medical and nursing staff. However, for educational, patient’s safety and legal reasons, the above actions are the sole responsibility and liability of the medical and nursing staff. We must emphasize that nurses and doctors are working closely and as a team. As part of the education of students, the nursing staff provides invaluable work and we hope that the cooperation of students will be expected to be perfect in every respect. Undoubtedly, the successful treatment of surgical patients requires, inter alia, sincere understanding, sympathy and love towards them. Medical students in order a) to be able to gain patient’s confidence, especially those with whom they come into contact for the first time and b) elicit the necessary diagnostic information related to the physical, mental and social wellness, they must take the patient’s medical history and perform clinical examination with particular delicacy and politeness, respecting human dignity and medical confidentiality. Always remember that each patient has his own personality, which under the influence of his illness, pain, fear and entering the hospital environment can be externalized with multifaceted aspects.

Throughout his/her studies in pediatrics, each student should acquire and use knowledge regarding mechanisms and disorders of growth and development, variations of the range of normal values of laboratory findings in pediatrics and clinical manifestations of a disease.
Medical history taking from the patient / guardian conducting physical examination (infant – toddler- school-aged child – adolescent), create a written data file including medical history and findings on physical examination (medical record), ability to create an oral presentation of the main points of a patient’s medical history in chronological order and a summary of findings on physical examination. Recognition of medical problems during medical history taking and physical examination recognition of diseases presenting with common symptoms (eg, fever, vomiting, irritability or fever and refusal to walk or pallor and petechiae etc). Recognition and evaluation of acute and urgent pediatric problems. Prescription of medications adapted to pediatric patients.

The medical students have to acquire the essential knowledge on basic issuers of General Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fetal-Maternal Medicine, Assisted Reproduction, Gynecologic Oncology and Urogynecology in order to be capable to identify, diagnose and provide treatment to women with relevant medical conditions and moreover to take appropriate action in cases of pregnant women towards the management of pregnancy and puerperium.

After the completion of lectures and clinical training students are expected to hav a good deal of ability in eliciting a focused neuroogical history, performing an accurate neurological examination, localizing a lesion and identifying the significance of neurological findings on examination, developing a practical approach for the evaluation, differential diagnosis and management of a neurological disease.

Clinical training emphasizing in the detection, differential diagnosis and the final diagnosis of mental disorders, appropriate patient-doctor communication, understanding of therapeutic and prognostical issues and, finally, the significance of the prevention of mental disorders.

The course focuses on the following items: 1. Social Medicine: Knowledge and Skills of Social Medicine needed in primary care and general practice. 2. Planning and organization of health services: Information technology and management principles of the health center services. 3. Clinical Skills: Clinical skills in primary care, focusing on the ability to distinguish patients who need hospital care and those treated at home and health center, basic emergency medical operations, access to diagnostic and treatment of the most common acute and chronic diseases in the community home. Team 4. Health: The interdisciplinary health team (definitions – Role distinction), multidisciplinary – interdisciplinary and interprofessional health care of the population. 5. Interface between Primary Health Care: Joint management of the problems of chronic sickness-ture (shared care) among doctors of General Medicine and doctors hospital specialties, referrals and referral decision. 6. Contact: doctor-patient relationship, communication with patients, family, and community agencies. 7. Professional attitude and scientific ethics: Code of Medical Ethics, analysis anthropocentric character of medicine, continuing education and self-education.