Sylabus
Outline of the contents of the holiday practice in surgery. The student has to become familiar with the running on the ward as well as in the outdoor department an in particular to get acquainted with the basic principles of asepsis. It is necessary for the student to acquire, as profoundly as possible, experience in traumatology, particularly in the treatment of minor injuries, the principles of fracture treatment, dressing technique of the fixation bandages and the plaster cast, experience in first aid, experience in the transport problems of the injured, experience in X-Ray diagnostics. The student will learn the rebandage technique, catheterization in men and women, pre-operative preparations and the principles of post-operative care. Next he/she must acquire experience in diagnostics, in the differential surgical diseases diagnostics, in particular the acute abdominal pain diagnostics. The student will take part in the running of the operating hall while assisting the operation and the anaesthesia process, he/she will learn the pre-operative preparation (scrubbing, gowning, gloving, preparation of the operation field, instrumentation) and resuscitation principles. The issues to be especially investigated on the ward are the acute abdominal pain diagnostics, questions concerning suppurative surgery, problems concerning shock therapy and cancer screening techniques. According to the programme the students will take part in night duties under the junior physician's control. The procedures done by the student during the placement will be confirmed by the respective health care institution in THE LIST OF PRACTICAL PROCEDURES.