Syllabus
The cardiology elective A starts from 4th October 2018.
The teaching will take place at the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine every Thursday from 3pm.
Students will be met in front of the Eiselt Hall - the lecture hall on the first floor of the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Teaching Hospital. More information will be provided by email if necessary: Lubor Golan, MD: lubor.golan@vfn.cz
Annotation
The aim of new courses Cardiology elective A and B is case based teaching of cardiovascular diseases. The whole course will be organized as rounds with experienced mentors who would choose interesting cases of cardiovascular diseases. Students will take the patient history and do physical examination under the supervision of their mentor and then the specific case will be discussed. The focus will be on differential diagnosis, methods and also possible therapeutic possibilities for each particular case. Alternatively, part of the teaching will be performed in several diagnostic laboratories (cathlabs, echolab etc) of our department. Every practical (rounds) will be unique due to the spectrum of at that time hospitalized patients, thus every week there will be a new disease case. This course is not meant to replace standard cardiology course that is organized by our department during the 5th year. But rather to be a complimentary teaching which should help the students to develop superb clinical skills and thinking. The teaching will be performed in maximally interactive way, therefore the students are expected to be very proactive. Due to various cases which will be discussed there will not be exact syllabus ahead of course and the program will be adjusted according to present patients at the department. Thus the course A and
B will have different programs and passing course A is not required for course B.