Tenth Semester Medicine

In MED10 the students will get knowledge in the fields of preventive-, occupational-, forensic-, addictive- and palliation medicine. The semester will further give the students education in the general oncology, which will bring together the organ specific oncology that has been taught previously. The students will also get knowledge about the role the doctor has as a leader, how to handle knowledge and ethical dilemmas as a medical professional.

In the transfer-arrangement the students will also get some education in public and international health. International the focus will be on health problems related to poverty in low- and middle income countries.

On completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

• The student knows the relevant laws regarding the medical profession (the public health law, the law regarding health personnel, the law of punishment, the law for patient rights, the law regarding health registry, the law regarding environment at the work place and so on.).
• The student has insight in the value of monitoring different environmental influences on human health, and how these exposures may influence us. The student has knowledge on how to handle unwanted incidences and how to work on improvements.
• The student has knowledge about leadership and the obstacles that is entailed in leadership, including the challenges regarding cooperation between different levels, and professions, in the health sector. Also the student has knowledge on how the health services are organized and build up.
• The student knows symptoms of addiction, and what treatments and preventions such conditions need.
• The student has knowledge regarding pain- and symptom relief treatment, and about how to treat acute conditions and complications in patients with advanced, untreatable sickness.
• The student has advanced knowledge regarding how to start investigating a patient on the suspicion of cancer, and also the student knows when that patient must be referred to a specialist.
• The student can critically review papers and new knowledge.
• The student can explain the important differences and similarities between rich and poor countries in regards to health- and demographic development.

Skills

• The student can suggest efforts toward the public that will promote public health.
• The student knows when, how and to whom conditions or events that are to be reported should be reported.
• The student can give advice on prevention of exposures and conditions related to the environment of the patient, or group of population.
• The student can map, consider and give pain- and symptom relief measures in cooperation with the patient and other professions.
• The student can do a targeted clinical examination and discover pathology.
• The student can use methods to identify and map addiction, and give simple guidance.
• The student can perform simple forensic tasks.
• The student can work across professions to improve work procedures and to identify and handle unwanted incidences.

General competence

• The student can assess the pro´s, con´s and possible ethical issues regarding implementation of new measures to improve the public health.
• The student has a wide approach to the seriously ill- and dying patient, and their next of kin.
• The student understands the complexity of addiction.
• The student reflects critically on the work he or she does and future work.
• The student understands that all resources has an alternative costs, and the student reflects on what place the health sector has in society and how the resources can be divided in a good way across the health sector.
• The student can investigate, diagnose and give none-surgical assistance to patients with cancer.
• The student understands how they can search for knowledge and present this knowledge in a good manner.
• The student has a global view of the work as a medical professional.