ENGLISH DIVISION

Colloquium results are in the file at the bottom of this page.

According to your request, the retake will not be on Monday 21 but on next Monday, October 28, at 1.30 pm in room 716

NEUROLOGY 2019/20

 The aim of the neurology course is preparing medical students to work as general practitioner (family doctor) and giving them basic neurological knowledge and information about advances in neurology.

Duration of the course: 3 weeks  from 8.00 am to 1.pm. 

number of teaching hours = 100 hours of seminars and practical classes                          

TOPICS OF SEMINARS

1. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system - repetition.
2. Ischemic stroke
3. Hemorrhagic strokes
4. Motor neuron disease  and other diseases of the spinal cord 
5. Muscle diseases 
6. Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
7. Peripheral neuropathies
8. Demyelinating diseases 
9. Neoplastic tumors of the nervous system
10.  Autonomic system disorders in neurology
11.  Vertigo
12. Traumatic lesions of the central nervous system
13. Neurocritical care and brain death
14. Headache
15. Back pain
16. Epilepsy
17. Dementia
18. Emergency in neurology
19. Neurological signs and symptoms in systemic diseases
20. Neuroimaging

PRACTICAL CLASSES: 

Practical training includes teaching physical neurological examination, interpretation of diagnostic tests and algorithms of diagnostic procedures, as well as demonstration of patients with selected neurological diseases and basic additional tests  used in neurological diagnostics: Doppler ultrasound examination and EMG / EEG.

 White aprons are obligatory for classes

ASSESMENT OF STUDENT  PERFORMANCE: 

On the last day of the course students pass the colloquium consisting of 50 open and multiple choice questions. At least 30 correct answers are required to pass the test. The colloquium can be re-passed only twice. If the results of the repetitive tests are negative, the student must repeat  the entire course of neurology.

Students who have completed the course may take the final exam during the winter examination session. The final exam is the MCQ test consisting of 100 questions and lasts for 2 hours. To pass the final exam you need at least 55 good answers

BASIC TEXBOOKS: 

1. “Clinical Neurology” Aminoff M, Greenberg D, Simon R.  edition 9, Mc Graw Hill Education 2015

COMPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOKS: 

1. Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated”  K.W.Lindsay, I.Bone. Churchill Livingstone 2010
2. "Meritt’s Texbook of Neurology".L.P. Rowland ; Williams Wilkins 2005,
3. "Adam's and Victor's Principles of Neurology". A Ropper, R Brown; McGrow-Hill 2005,
4. "Mosby’s Color Atlas and Text of Neurology". Perkin DG; Times Mirrors Int. Publishers Ltd 1998