ENGLISH DIVISION

NEUROLOGY RETAKE EXAM

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

STUDENT'S RECORD BOOK (INDEX) AND PROTOCOL OF TEMPORARY ACHIEVEMENTS SHOULD BE COMPLETED BEFORE THEIR TRANSFER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY. 

• name of lecturer/signed by: Prof. Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk
• name of subject/course: Neurology

STUDENT'S RECORD BOOK CAN BE ISSUED TO ANOTHER STUDENT ONLY ON THE BASIS OF A WRITTEN ACCEPTANCE OF THE INDEX OWNER.

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NEUROLOGY 2017/2018

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    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. 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. How to choose diagnostic tools in neurology
21. Electromyography as a diagnostic tool in neuromuscular disorders
22. Doppler ultrasonography in cerebrovascular diseases
23. Brain autopsy

PRACTICAL CLASSES: 

Practical training involves teaching of physical neurological examination, interpretation of diagnostic tests, and algorithms of diagnostic procedures as well as  demonstration of patients with selected neurologic diseases. 

ASSESMENT OF STUDENT  PERFORMANCE: 

On completion of the course students are expected to take a  coloquium (a test with 50 open and multiple choice questions). A minimum of 30 correct answers is needed to pass the test. Retake of  the coloquium can be taken only twicely. If  results of retake tests are negative student must repeat the neurology course.

After passing the colloquium students  are expected to take a final exam during summer exam session.Final exam lasts 2 hours and is a MCQ test composed of 100 questions. 

BASIC TEXBOOKS: 

1. "Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated”  K.W.Lindsay, I.Bone. Churchill Livingstone 2010

COMPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOKS: 

1. "Meritt’s Texbook of Neurology".L.P. Rowland ; Williams Wilkins 2005,
2. "Adam's and Victor's Principles of Neurology". A Ropper, R Brown; McGrow-Hill 2005,
3. "Mosby’s Color Atlas and Text of Neurology". Perkin DG; Times Mirrors Int. Publishers Ltd 1998