Curriculum
Year 1
Basic Mathematics for Medicine I
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is offered to the first-year international students in the Medical School. It will all be conducted in English, in textbook, in lectures, in homework, and in exams. This course covers the basic concepts and techniques in Calculus of one variable. It can roughly be divided into 3 parts: (1) Functions; (2) Differentiation; (3) Integration. Some applications relevant to medicine will also be introduced along the way. This course is a prerequisite of the subsequent course 《Basic Mathematics for Medicine II》.
Basic Mathematics for Medicine Ⅱ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a continuation of 《Basic Mathematics for Medicine I》 offered to the first-year international students in the Medical School. It will all be conducted in English, in textbook, in lectures, in homework, and in exams. Its contents include: (1) Integration I; (2) Application of Integration; (3) Integration Techniques; (4) Probability; (5) Statistics; (6) Statistical Tool I; Behind these theories, applications in biology and medicine will be brought out whenever possible.
Introduction to Modern Biological Science
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Introduction to Modern Biological Science is a basic biological course for non-biology major students. This course introduces briefly and systematically the chemistry of life, cell, genetics, evolution, diversity of life (including microorganisms, plants and animals), animal form and function, and ecology.
General Physics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed for first year medical school students as a compact, introductory level class. A total 48-hour class is intended to cover basic physics principles from classical mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics and modern physics, as well as their applications in medicine.
General Physics Lab
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is mainly composed of basic experiment teaching content. In order to develop students ability to solve practical problems and innovation ability ,Design added to the part of the comprehensive and designing experiment content, Students can better understand the application of physics experiment, master knowledge of physics. For their follow-up professional course experiment and research work to lay a solid foundation.
Chinese Ⅰ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is mainly for newly-enrolled clinical medical students. It is based on the teaching of Chinese phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, words, Chinese characters and other linguistic elements. Through classroom training, students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills will be gradually improved, and their ability to use Chinese for social communication will be cultivated. The course will play a solid language foundation in the later Medical Chinese language courses and clinical internship in hospitals
Organic Chemistry
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this one-semester course, the fundamentals of organic chemistry are taught. As an introduction, models of bonding and molecular representations are treated. A survey of functional groups, reactivity and acid-base chemistry will allow for a general understanding of organic transformations. The most important classes of organic molecules and selected reactions are discussed, including alkanes/alkenes/alkynes, carbonyl-containing compounds, arenes, alcohols and amines. The structure and properties of sugars, lipids, peptides and nucleic acids is then emphasized because of their relevance to biological systems and medicine.
Chinese Ⅱ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a public compulsory course for students of grade one in clinical medicine. It aims at cultivating the students' ability to listen, speak, read and write in Chinese, and acquiring some language and cultural knowledge. Through this course, students are required to master about 400 vocabulary and about 30 grammatical items preliminarily, so as to converse in simple Chinese and able to meet the daily needs of campus life and tour around the city. In addition, it is designed to lay a solid foundation for the study of Chinese in grade two.
Systematic Anatomy
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Human anatomy is one of main courses in medicine. It is also the foundation subjects in medical study. The human anatomy is the science which deals with the morphology and structure of human body. Medical students must know position, shape and regional relationship of the organs and structures in the body. It is importance for doctor to practice all specially areas of medicine. Anatomy, is closely associated with radiology and surgery, it forms an essential basis for all branches of medicine. Its importance to the surgeon has long been apparent but today such developments as new imaging techniques, biopsy procedures, and noninvasive therapeutic methods make an accurate knowledge of anatomy equally essential to the practice of all specially areas of medicine.
History of Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The history of medicine is the history of the formation and development of medicine, the history of human beings' understanding of their own health and diseases. The whole history of medicine is full of the struggle between human beings and diseases: struggle, defeat, struggle again, defeat again, until victory; after the original disease is overcome, a new disease appears, and then a new round of struggle is entered; thus, with the survival, reproduction and development of human beings, the struggle between human beings and diseases is forever endless. The history of medicine records the suffering of human beings suffering from diseases, the joy of overcoming diseases, and the glory of human wisdom; there is the struggle between science and ignorance, the conflict between human care and inhumanity. The history of medicine shows the trajectory of the knowledge taught in medical schools today and the direction of medical science tomorrow, so it will be beneficial to spend a little time looking at what we will be doing for the rest of our lives from a macroscopic and chronological perspective. This course intends to use a lecture format to briefly describe the important achievements, time and tasks in the history of medicine, the social, ideological, scientific and technological factors that influenced the development of medicine, and the impact of medicine in turn on the socio-economic development of the time, with the development of modern medicine as the main line.
Global Health
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This module will set out some of the central concepts and debates in global health in this era of rapid globalization. Students will be introduced to concepts of global health and sources of information, as well as develop a conceptual framework to illustrate the multiple determinants of health which result in inequalities in health within and between countries. A special emphasis will be placed on the broad, wider upstream determinants of health like gender, culture, health systems, the environment, socioeconomic position and employment.
Medical Philosophy
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Medicine and Philosophy are principally linked. Medicine has evolved for thousands years around its eternal topics such as birth, death, health and disease, which are also the origins of philosophy. This course aims to introduce the philosophic values in medicine, and the concepts of eastern philosophy, with an emphasis on the application of philosophic reasoning in clinical decision and practice.
Early Exposure To Clinic
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In medical education, the traditional way is to enter clinical learning only after students have completed basic medical courses. In order to improve the students'perceptual understanding of their career in the future and cultivate their interest,we set up the prtatical course.
Year 2
Biochemistry
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Biochemistry is an important professional basic course of the life science .By learning the curriculum, students can master the basic theory and knowledge of modern biochemistry, cultivating students ' ability to understand life phenomena at molecular level. It can also train students the ability to analyze and solve problems and the practical ability for further study.
Histology & Embryology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is to help the medical students to learn basic theoretical knowledge and experiment techniques, to develop their ability of experimental design, and to know novel technology and methods of current biochemistry study. In addition, it will also help students to know how to solve clinical questions by Biochemistry and Molecular Biology methods. In summary, this course aims to establish a solid basis for cultivating both basic medical research talents and excellent clinical physician.
Regional Anatomy
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Human anatomy (II) is one of the major course of medicine. The aim of this course is to let students master the theory and methods of human body dissection, to bring up their skills on feeling, discussing, and summarizing briefly the structures. The students can acquire most of the fundamental knowledge. In the LAB, one student is dissector (operator), another one is his or her partner, whose duty is to help the dissector dissected to expose and clean the structures. During this dissection-based course, students will study all parts of the human body and their normal function, with occasional reference to common abnormalities of function. Lectures, laboratory dissection sessions, self-study, and group learning are all important components of this course.
Medical Genetics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will focus on the fundamental aspects of human genetics, both classical and molecular genetics will be addressed, with particular application to human biology and medicine. Laws that govern inheritance and variation among individuals and populations will be addressed, with special attention to the molecular aspects of inheritance, mutation and gene regulation. Up-dated molecular, cellular and cytogenetic approaches will be emphasized, whenever possible, to human gene systems and inherited diseases. By this course the students should be able to master the knowledge for the genetic diagnosis, the treatment and especially the prevention of genetic disorders. The course aims to provide a foundation for appreciation and application of genetics in the practice of medicine.
Chinese Ⅲ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a public compulsory course for students of grade two in clinical medicine. Through the study of this course, the students can cultivate the students' ability to listen, speak, read and write in Chinese, and teach some language knowledge and cultural knowledge to make the students master about 2000 vocabulary and about 280 grammatical items preliminarily. It has a preliminary speech communication ability and can adapt to the needs of a Chinese environment and be a professional Chinese. Learning to lay a good foundation.
Biochemistry Lab
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is to help the medical students to learn basic theoretical knowledge and experiment techniques, to develop their ability of experimental design, and to know novel technology and methods of current biochemistry study. In addition, it will also help students to know how to solve clinical questions by Biochemistry and Molecular Biology methods. In summary, this course aims to establish a solid basis for cultivating both basic medical research talents and excellent clinical physician.
Physiology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the mechanisms by which the normal human body functions. Specifically, students will be taught how the organ systems operate and interact to maintain homeostasis, how the systems change from birth to senescence, and how they respond to internal and external events. Through experience in the laboratory, students will be given the opportunity to study physiological phenomena, develop skills in the analysis and interpretation of data, and learn to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings.
Pathophysiology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Pathophysiology is a medical science concerning the etiology and pathogenesis of diseases, as well as the mechanisms of functional and metabolic alterations in diseases. It provides a link between the sciences of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on the mechanisms and concepts of most commonly encountered diseases and disorders to the human body. Selected lessons include fever, hypoxia, stress, shock, disturbances of hemostasis, abnormal cell proliferation and differentiation, heart failure, etc. These may provide awareness of possible implications of certain aspects of diseases, current scientific advances and selected therapies. The course aims to enable students to apply scientific reasoning skills to the study of diseases.
Basic Traditional Chinese Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides one of most important knowledge for the field of TCM. There are 7 parts to study, such as the theory of Yin, Yang, the Five Elements, Qi, Blood, Body Fluid and Essence, six Zang organs and seven Fu-organ, six pathogenenic factors and the main pathogenesis such as imbalance of vital Qi and evil Qi, Qi stagnation and Blood stasis, etc. Meridians are the common pathways or bridges to reflect the physiological functions and pathological changes of body, are also the main physiological basis for the prevention and treatment of diseases, which will be introduced by many cases and demonstration in the courses.
Medical Psychology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Medical Psychology is a course combined of medicine and psychology. It is both a basic course and an applied course for medical students. It requires the students to know the basic knowledge of psychology, the main ideas of medical psychology. It also requires the students deeply comprehend the relationship between the mind and the body, and grasp the methods of editing a psychological scale. The aim of the course is to let the students know we should deal with the patients not only on his body but also on his mind. The students should learn to solve psychosomatic problems appearing in clinics after they finish this course.
Chinese Ⅳ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a required course for students of grade two in clinical medicine. It is a continuation of the Chinese Ⅲ course. Through this course, we can cultivate the students' comprehensive ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and teaching some language knowledge and cultural knowledge to meet the needs of the general Chinese environment, and lay a good foundation for the study of the professional Chinese in grade three.
Year 3
Medical Immunology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The immune system plays the crucial role of battling infection and cancer in the body. This is an introductory course open to international medical students in Zhejiang University School of Medicine. This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the mechanisms by which the immune system functions. Topics include mechanisms of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements, cell biology of antigen presentation to T-cells and of lymphocyte trafficking, antigen and cytokine receptor structure and signal transduction mechanisms, regulation of lymphocyte development and lymphocyte activation, mechanisms of cell-mediated killing of infected and neoplastic cells, whole organism immune response to infection, and diseases of the immune system, including allergy, Autoimmunity. This course also includes experimental classes. Through the experience in the laboratory, students will be given the opportunity to perform immunological experiments and develop skills in the analysis and interpretation of data.
Pathology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this program of Pathology, medical students will be able to understand the concepts of cell injury and changes produced thereby in different tissues and organs and the body’s capacity for healing, to understand the etiopathogenesis, the pathological effects and the clinico-pathological correlation of common infectious and non-infectious diseases, to understand the concept of neoplasia with reference to the etiology, gross and microscopic features, diagnosis and prognosis in different tissues and organs of the body.
Medical Microbiology&Parasitology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is divided into two independent ones: medical microbiology and human parasitology. The course of medical microbiology will cover the major groups of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses and fungi. It introduces the characteristics of microorganisms, microbial genetics/heredity and variation, parthenogenesis and body responses, diagnostic medical microbiology and clinical correlation. The course of human parasitology introduces the morphological features, life cycle outlines and main harm of the parasites in human beings and vector-arthropods.
Biomedical Informatics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course serves as an introduction to the field of biomedical informatics for international undergraduates. The course covers the background, history, the most up to date information, health information technologies and web resources. If we can introduce you to a single new concept or tool that improves patient care or makes your day easier, we will consider our work helpful.
Survey of China
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course covers 9 topics, at the rate of roughly one topic every two weeks. Teacher will cover the topics, such as:China ABC, Chinese history, tourism, philosophy and religion, folk customs and festivals, education and science/technology, literature and art, movies, Zhejiang,Hangzhou and ZJU. Every other week students will have oral presentations focusing the related topic of the previous week. Every student will have one oral presentation during the whole semester. This structure, coupled with a mid-term paper and final exam, is designed to help students understand the history and present of China as well as participating actively in the course.
Medical Chinese I
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Medical Chinese is a required course to help MBBS students to Clinical clerkship and clinical internship in Chinese hospital. This course is a special language course about Anatomy, histology and pathology. Its main purpose is to provide the foundation of medical Chinese for foreign students to enter Chinese hospitals for clinical clerkship and internship, and to help them communicate with medical staff, patients and their families in Chinese.
Pharmacology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Pharmacology is a discipline that studies the interaction and mechanism between drug and the organisms (including pathogens), including: (1) pharmacodynamics — the study of the roles and mechanisms of drugs on the organisms; (2) pharmacokinetics — the study of the metabolism of drugs in organisms. This course is comprised of the pharmacological effects, mechanism of action, clinical application and the adverse effects of drugs, as well as the interaction and the pharmacokinetics of drugs. The combination of theory and practice will be used in this course.
Forensic Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Forensic medicine is a special applicational medical science which research and resolve the issues about judicial practice related to casualties, pathological and physiological state using other natural scientific theory and technology. It is an interdisciplinary science. After learning it, the students not only increase their participation in testing and analysis of actual cases, but also learn how to serve society.
Internal Medicine Ⅰ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Medicine I is a bridge for Medical students,that transiting to clinical course from basal course,and also a crucial course for training their clinical skill. It is a required subject to teach how to diagnose diseases. This course includes three parts:1. History-taking and Medical record writing; 2.General methods of physical examination and specialist examination;3.Electrocardiogram;4.Establish objective thinking of diagnostic methods in order to achieve a correct understanding of the purpose of the disease.
Medical Chinese II
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Medical Chinese Ⅱ is a special language course aimed for MBBS students to learn essential medical chinese in clinical use. This course also has the purpose for helping students to communicate better with medical staff, patients and their families when they are in their clinical clerkship and internship.
Biostatistics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course serves as an introduction of biostatistics on biostatistics concepts and reasoning for international undergraduates. This course covers the basic tools for the presentation of data and data analysis in biology and medicine. Topics covered include: tools describing central tendency and dispersion of data; basic principles and key concepts from probability and inference; methods for performing inference on population means via sample data and hypothesis testing; review of methods for comparison of discrete and continuous data including ANOVA, t-test, correlation, and regression.
Year 4
Surgery I
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Surgery(Ⅰ) is the foundation theories, the basic knowledge and the basic technical ability in the surgery, to make the foundation for entering the surgery(Ⅱ) and surgery(Ⅲ) study, clinical practice and clinical work. Surgery(Ⅰ) includes below contents: anesthesia, resuscitation, tumor, fluid-electrocyte metabolisim and acid-base balance, trauma, shock, surgical infection, burns, pre-and post-operative management of the surgical patient, microsurgery and plastic reconstructive surgery, aseptic technique, general techniques of surgical operation.
Communicable Diseases
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course refers to the introduction of development, transmission, consequence, prevention and control of infectious diseases and parasitic diseases in the internal and external body. The content is made up by two sections. Section one refer to the introduction of Infectious Diseases, including the concept about infection and immunity, the knowledge about pathogenic mechanism, epidemiologic process, characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases. Section two refer to some lawful infectious diseases in China, including viral hepatitis, AIDS, epidemic encephalitis B, typhoid fever, cholera, septicemia and septic shock, etc.
Community Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will focus on the principle of family medicine and the clinical management connected with family medicine, such as preventive care and health education, we will also pay attention to the clinical applications. So this course will integrate the theory and clinical knowledge. In this course, the education of principle of family medicine, the initial evaluation and management of medically unexplained physical symptoms and common problems will be applied, and the preventive care and health education which are the features of family medicine will also be applied. On the other hand, education of the clinical practice for outpatient and inpatient will be applied. Since the medical problems are numerous, family medicine selects the common medical problems for the students to master and to cultivate clinical thinking, and also to develop the approach to evaluate and solve various medical problem
Preventive Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is prepared for overseas medical students in Zhejiang University Medical School. It is designed for medical students to establish and strengthen preventive medicine’s concepts and gain knowledge of preventive medicine practice in modern medicine. This course includes the introduction of preventive medicine’s definitions, models, and its relations to other related disciplines; the control of infectious diseases through vaccination; the challenges in preventing modern chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, and cancer; and the environmental pollution issues. Lecturing and class discussion are used in this course.
Social Medicine & Ethics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of health related social factors, methods of health education & promotion and principles of biomedical ethics. Specifically, students will be taught how to appraise health risk factors, how to evaluate health-related quality of life (HROoL), the balance among health service need, resources and utilization, diverse types of medical insurance systems, theories of health and health behavior and principles of biomedical ethics. Through lecture, discussion and proposal writing, students will develop skills in social medicine project design, analysis and interpretation of data, and cultivate perspectives of biomedical ethics.
Epidemiology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Epidemiology is the basic scientific tool with which medical professionals use to study disease. It is a perspective in which systematic observation is the basis on which grounded inferences can be made about observed phenomena. It is also an excellent tool that is being adopted by health sciences researchers to look at the effectiveness of health delivery services, and more specifically, medical interventions.
The course aims to introduce to the student what is the meaning of disease distribution and its differences among different regions, period and commonalty, and how to search after the cause of disease. The course will also discuss the principle of prevent communicable and noncommunicable disease.
Medical Chinese III
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The main purpose of this course is to make international students understand the complete process of clinical consultation, physical examination and diagnosis, and to help them communicate with medical staff, patients and their families in Chinese.
Surgery Ⅱ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to develop a primary care physician with appropriate knowledge, skill and attitude to treat common disease at the primary care level. Emphasis will be laid on the primary care of the injured, care of comatose, common wounds and ulcers, resuscitation of patient with cardiac arrest, initial care of acute abdominal conditions and other emergencies. Diagnosis, workup and proper referral of common conditions viz. hernia, lumps in breast, thyroid, piles and fissure & fistula, abdominal lumps, renal stones, varicose veins will be covered substantially.
Radiology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides a systematic overview of imaging diagnostic technologies applied to clinical practice. Diseases in various systems are discussed. The diagnosis of common diseases will be introduced in a logical sequence, including the explanation in the steps involved in imaging procedures, the reference to history, PE and Lab results, and the differential diagnosis; to aid the students in understanding and further improve their medical knowledge.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course includes four part. The first part is anatomy & physiology of female genital system. The second part is perinatology. The third part is Gynaecologic diseases. The last part is sterility and family planning. The main goal of curriculum is to enable the undergraduate students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes in the discipline of Obstetrics & Gynaecology as essential for a general practitioner.
Internal Medicine Ⅱ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Internal medicine is the most important subject in clinical medicine. It is a science which focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prevention in medical diseases. Depend on various teaching roads, like theoretical and practical teaching methods, the mission of this course is to teach the basic knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of diseases in each system, including circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, hematological system, endocrine system and rheumatism, especially, to make the students to master the relative basic knowledge, basic theory and practice skills of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and prevention and control of the common diseases in each system.
Medical Chinese IV
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is the clinical part of the Chinese course of clinical medicine. The goal of this course is to cultivate students' verbal communication skills. Therefore, typical clinical cases of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics were selected to simulate the real clinical scenes of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics.
Year 5
Pediatrics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course includes systematic instructions in growth and development, nutritional needs of a child, immunization schedules and management of common diseases of infancy and childhood, scope of Social Pediatrics and counseling.
Internal Medicine Ⅲ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Internal medicine is the most important subject in clinical medicine. It is a science which focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prevention in medical diseases. Depend on various teaching roads, like theoretical and practical teaching methods, the mission of this course is to teach the basic knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of diseases in each system, including circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, hematological system, endocrine system and rheumatism, especially, to make the students to master the relative basic knowledge, basic theory and practice skills of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and prevention and control of the common diseases in each system.
Surgery Ⅲ
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to develop a primary care physician with appropriate knowledge, skill and attitude to treat common disease at the primary care level. Emphasis will be laid on the primary care of the injured, care of comatose, common wounds and ulcers, resuscitation of patient with cardiac arrest, initial care of acute abdominal conditions and other emergencies. Diagnosis, workup and proper referral of common conditions viz. hernia, lumps in breast, thyroid, piles and fissure & fistula, abdominal lumps, renal stones, varicose veins will be covered substantially.
Emergency Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which a physician receives practical training to care for patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care, emergency medicine physicians diagnose a variety of illnesses and undertake acute interventions to stabilize the patient. Emergency medicine physicians practice in hospital emergency departments, in pre-hospital settings via emergency medical services, other locations where initial medical treatment of illness takes place, and recently the intensive-care unit. Just as clinicians operate by immediacy rules under large emergency systems, emergency practitioners aim to diagnose emergent conditions and stabilize the patient for definitive care.
Otorhinolaryngology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the principles of examination and management of common Ear, Nose and throat diseases like CSOM, tonsillitis, and sinusitis, common emergencies like upper airway obstruction and peritonsillar abscess and be able to refer the complicated cases to an appropriate specialist. Also students should be taught to be aware of preventive Otology and Head & Neck cancer for public guidance.
Ophthalmology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The standardized course training will integrate systemic education of the professional knowledge that will enable the class students to build on a solid base in the understanding of broad spectrum of common eye diseases, the clinical skills necessary to take a first-hand history, the ability of conducting a physical examination of the patient presenting with ocular symptoms, and finally the formulation of a management plan for the assessment and treatment of ocular emergencies and trauma.
Medical Chinese V
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The main content of this course is the Chinese commonly used by various departments in the inpatient department, focusing on listening and speaking as well as writing. The goal is to learn the knowledge and skills of clinical medicine during the internship, and to communicate with medical staff, patients and their families.
Dermatovenereology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Skin diseases are quite prevalent in the community and a large number of patients attending to any hospital OPD come with the complaints related to skin diseases. Most skin diseases can be easily diagnosed and managed with adequate amount of training. We have designed a comprehensive training syllabus for undergraduates in Dermatology, which includes the Dermatology, Venereology & Leprosy. The aim of the training is to train the candidates to diagnose and manage common skin diseases.
Psychiatry
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Psychiatry is a discipline focused specifically on the mind, aiming to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans. General objective is to enable the student to acquire knowledge, skills and desirable attitudes in the principles and practice of psychiatry. This curriculum is mainly designed to discuss psychiatric symptoms and epidemiology, aetiology, course, clinical features, diagnosis, therapy of common mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, organic mental disorders, anxiety disorders; personality disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders,the misuse of drugs and alcohol, etc.
Neurology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Neurology is the patient-centered area of medicine dedicated to understand, study, diagnose, manage and treat the diseases of the central, peripheral (nerves and muscles) and autonomic nervous systems. This course offers a didactic and practical approach to the study of the nervous system with emphasis on the applied anatomy, etiology, physiology and symptomology of the various pathologic states. The students will be taught the elements of a good neurological history and examination and learn common neurological presentations, formulate differential diagnosis, a final diagnosis, and determine viable methods for management in the course. Cases will be presented in the course as a way to make these correlations. This will also be accomplished by direct patient contact in clinics and hospital services.
Clinical Training
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Clinical Skill is a professional practical that is focusing on improving medical students’ clinical skills through the combination of application of medical models, medical simulation teaching and skills training. And students should master basic clinical skills through this course before entering clinical practice. After studying the course, medical students are able to go into clinical characters more quickly, adapt to clinical practice better and establish comprehensive clinical thoughts.
Stomatology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the theory, knowledge and skills of Oral and Craniofacial region. It expounds the anatomy and physiology of head and neck, common diseases of dental periodontal tissue, oral mucosal disease , oral local anesthesia and tooth extraction, injuries and infections, salivary gland disease, oral and maxillofacial tumors.It will make students master the diagnosis and treatment of common oral and craniofacial diseases, establish a relation between local reagion and the whole unity .
Emergency Medicine
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which a physician receives practical training to care for patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care, emergency medicine physicians diagnose a variety of illnesses and undertake acute interventions to stabilize the patient. Emergency medicine physicians practice in hospital emergency departments, in pre-hospital settings via emergency medical services, other locations where initial medical treatment of illness takes place, and recently the intensive-care unit. Just as clinicians operate by immediacy rules under large emergency systems, emergency practitioners aim to diagnose emergent conditions and stabilize the patient for definitive care.
Year 6
Senior Clerkship
During the clerkship phases, students are directly involved in the day-to-day care of patients. They are expected to understand the basic concepts that underlie their patients’ problems and apply the knowledge they have gained in earlier parts of the curriculum. Much emphasis is put on the clinical aspects of care in diagnosis, treatment and patient management.