NEUROLOGY – COURSE CONTENT

1. The Neurological Examination.

Performing a neurological examination.

Examination of the comatose patient.

Recognition and presentation of abnormal findings of the neurological examination.

2.Localization diagnostics (general principles in the diagnosis of diseases at the following levels).

Cerebral hemispheres (lobes, thalamus, basal ganglia).

Posterior cranial cavity (brain stem, cerebellum).

Spinal cord.

Roots and plexuses.

Peripheral nerves – including cranial nerves (mononeuropathy – polyneuropathy – multiple mononeuropathy).

Neuromuscular synapse.

Muscles.

3.General principles for diagnosis, assessment, treatment of the following neurological diseases.

Neurological intensive care.

Emergencies in neurology.

Vascular brain diseases.

Demyelinating diseases.

Movement disorders.

Behavioural neurology.

Epilepsy.

Neuromuscular and spinal cord diseases.

Cranial nerve disorders.

Pain and Headache.

Neuro-oncology and paraneoplastic diseases. Neurological manifestations of systemic diseases.

4.Diagnostic tests in Neurology

Electroencephalography.

Electroneurography/Electromyography.

Neuroimaging.

Neurochemistry/Neuroimmunology. Neuroradiology etc.

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PSYCHIATRY (Clinical Exercise)- COURSE CONTENT

The clinical practice in psychiatry lasts for three (3) weeks. The students, during the course of those three weeks, participate daily, actively, in the function of the psychiatric services inside the hospital as well as they visit at least one community psychiatric service, according to a predetermined schedule, to be informed and/or engaged in its function.

The above-mentioned community services are the: A Short-term Hostel, a Long- term Hostel two Protected Flats, a Mental Health Centre and a Day Centre.

Concerning the in-Hospital services, the students participate in the daily function of the in-patient psychiatric ward, in the weekly interdisciplinary team meetings, in the outpatient clinics, and in addition, do shifts and attend the liaison psychiatry activities. Students undertake a hospitalized patient, who they interact with daily and write down his/her detailed medical psychiatric record, which they turn in at the end of the clinical practice. The writing of the medical history is evaluated and considered by 50% in the final evaluation. The rest 50% of the evaluation is determined with oral examination about general knowledge and skills in clinical examination, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, suggestion of a treatment plan with awareness of the expected indications and side effects of the treatment.