ΧΡ0401

Attendance and successful examination in:

i. Anatomy of the Musculoskeletal System

GREEK

English during tutoring lessons, as well as for foreign students who are taught the course as part of a student exchange in the Erasmus program and in a student exchange in the HELMSIC program

Lectures (Medical Students who select the lesson are obliged to attend 11 out of 13  lectures)

• Lectures at the amphitheater
• Tutorials
• Clinic
• International educational seminars
• Practical training:
• clinic
• emergency department
• operating room

• Face to face
• e-class
• Preparation for congress participation
• Power point presentations
•  E-class
• E-book access
• Pubmed access
• Posting online information and announcements about the course and other educational activities
• Students and teachers communications by e-mail

The student’s progress is monitored throughout the semester and the final grade is co-ordinated by the student’s overall image throughout the course of teaching. It is primarily aimed at informing the students whether their self-assessment was objective.

Optional work: After consulting with a faculty member it is possible to carry out scientific work at various levels. The performance on the scientific work is counted in the final evaluation positively and if it is accepted at a conference the student is supported to present it.

Final Exam: Oral exams at the end of each semester

EVALUATION

A relevant questionnaire is available to the students at the end of the semester’s course to evaluate the lesson and the teachers, assessing each of the lecturers for both amphitheater and clinical tutoring.

Students are also encouraged to express their views on the overall educational process of the course and any proposed changes.

The results of the above questionnaire responses are appropriately reclaimed.

The course is a basic lesson of the Medical Schools. Course content aims at introducing students to the concept of extremity trauma and spine diseases.

The purpose of the course is to make the student able to understand common diseases and clinical examination principles. Also, the students are trained to immobilize a member and inject a drug or puncture a joint.

The learning objectives to be fulfilled in students’ training in Orthopedic Pathology are that upon completion of the semester, they must be able:

1. to carry out a clear and focused patient history,
2. to perform a complete objective examination of the patient,
3. to decide on the need for diagnostic investigation, to administer various laboratory and imaging tests and methods, to apply simple differential diagnostics, recommending only the necessary tests, and to properly evaluate their findings,
4. to recognize the potential for complications and suggest their prevention,
5. to decide on appropriate and necessary preoperative screening for the patient
6. to understand basic surgical principles in specific common Orthopaedic diseases

Preconditions

Mandatory  knowledge:

• Anatomy of the musculoskeletal system
• Drug treatment of common microbial infections

Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common cause of chronic pain and disability in the world. The high prevalence of arthritis and osteoporosis associated with an aging population burden millions of people, their families, health systems and the costs to society generally. Musculoskeletal problems are the second most common cause for coming in the emergency departments after respiratory distress. The teaching of the field of Orthopedics is intended to give undergraduate students basic knowledge of the diagnosis of the most common musculoskeletal disorders. The rheumatic diseases that are the subject of a corresponding lesson are not included. Lectures by teachers begin with the clinical anatomy followed by a description of the diseases and their treatment briefly. Emphasis is placed on complications and representative examples. An attempt is also made to inductively present the problem to the student and to motivate him searching out the necessary knowledge to solve it.

CONTENT-TEACHING MODULES

1. SPINAL CORD ABNORMALITIES IN CHILDREN
2. SPINAL CORD DISORDERS
3. ARTHITIS
4. PERIPHERAL NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES–NEONATAL BRACHIAL PLEXUS PALSY
5. METABOLIC BONE DISEASES
6. INFECTIONS IN MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
7. MALIGNANCIES OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
8. OSTEONECROSIS IN MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
9. CEREBRAL PALSY
10. DISORDERS OF THE SHOULDER AND ELBOW
11. DISORDERS OF THE HAND
12. COMMON HIP DISORDERS IN CHILDREN
13. DISORDERS OF THE FOOT

– RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

1. Option, per year, a textbook available from the «ΕΥΔΟΞΟΣ» database
2. e-book «MICROSURGERY», data base «ΕΥΔΟΞΟΣ»: 320131 AND COURSE NOTES
3. e-class presentations

 Medical Bibliography on the Internet

-Related Scientific Journals:

Clinical Orthopedics and Related research

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery