Rehabilitation Medicine - B80128 (General Medicine - English parallel)

• Title: Rehabilitation Medicine
• Form of teaching: internship
• Guaranteed by: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine First Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague (11-00640)
• Faculty: First Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2026
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/25, C [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 25 [hours]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Explanation: as. MUDr. Karla Kotková, Ph.D. [e-mail]
• Old code: 128
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 1 / 1 / 1
• Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Yvona Angerová, MBA, Ph.D.; MUDr. Karla Kotková, Ph.D.
• Attributes: Lékařství; Klinický předmět
• Pre-requisite : B80054, B80632, B80634, B83161, B83162

Annotation

Introduction into rehabilitation, basic terminology in RHB, basics of physical therapy. The importance of multidisciplinary rehabilitation team work. Clinical work at General Teaching Hospital departments under a supervision of rehabilitation physicians and physiotherapists. Individual work of students with patients aftre TBI in a daily treatment centre. Basic legislation in rehabilitation - WHO, EU and Czech Republic. Formulation of a short and long-time plan in a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team.

Last update: Sládková Petra, MUDr. Bc., Ph.D. (08.10.2018)

Aim of the course

Introduction to a modern rehabilitation concept, importance of the multidisciplinary team work, examination of the patients, basic treatment principles in rehabilitation.

Last update: Sládková Petra, MUDr. Bc., Ph.D. (17.09.2019)

Literature

Obligatory:

• Florence Peterson Kendall. Muscle Testing and Fuctioning. USA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2020, 359 s. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-0781747.
• Law Mary, Joy MacDermid. Evidence-Based Rehabilitation
  

  A Guide to Practise. USA: Slack Incorporated, 2014, 730 s. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-1617110.

• Volker Dietz and Nick Ward. Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation. UK: Oxford University Press, 2020, s. ISBN 9780198824954.

Recommended:

• Janet H. Carr MA EdD (Columbia), Roberta B. Shepherd MA EdD (Columbia) FACP, & 5 more. Neurological Rehabilitation: Optimizing motor performance. UK: Churchill Livingstone, 2010, 351 s. ISBN 978-0-7020-4051-1.

Last update: Kotková Karla, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.09.2026)

Teaching methods

Week  5.10. – 9.10. and 19.10.-23.10., regular

Monday		8:00-8:15	MUDr. Kotková	„KNIHOVNA“ KRL ALBERTOV 7, First floor on right.  Organization points
	1.-2.	8:15-9:35	MUDr. Kotková	Introduction to comprehensive rehabilitation
	3.-5.	9:45-12:10	Mgr. Rodová	Occupational therapy and compensatory aids in rehabilitation
Tuesday	1.-2.	8:00-9:30	MUDr. Korbel	McKenzie therapy - illustrative presentation of physiotherapeutic concept
	3.-5.	10:00-12:10	Mgr. Kozel	Principles of physiotherapy, clinical practice
Wednesday	1.-2.	8:00-9:30	PhDr. Horynová	Speech therapy in rehabilitation. Dysphagia - speech therapist approach
	3.-5.	9:45-12:10	PhDr. Gerlichová	Role of the special education teacher in rehabilitation. Introduction to Music therapy.
Thursday	1.-3.	8:00-10:30	Doc. MUDr. Angerová	Challenges for patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) Round in the daily treatment center for ABI patients ABI patient rehabilitation
	4.-5.	10:45-12:10	Mgr. Doubravová	Cognitive rehabilitation
Friday	1.-2.	8:00- 9:45	Mgr. Hroboňová	Physical therapy. Physiotherapy in oncology
	3.-4.	10:00-11:30	MUDr. Klimošová	Clinical rehabilitation
	5.	11:45-12:10		Conclusion, final exam (multiple-choice test)

 Week 28.9.-2.10., Monday 28.9. national holiday 

Monday		8:00-8:15
28.9.	1.-2.	8:15-9:35		national holiday = no lectures
	3.-5.	9:45-12:10		national holiday = no lectures
Tuesday				„KNIHOVNA“ KRL ALBERTOV 7, First floor on right.  Organization points
29.9.	1.-2.	8:00-9:30	MUDr. Kotková	Introduction to comprehensive rehabilitation
	3.-5.	10:00-12:10	Mgr. Kozel	Principles of physiotherapy, clinical practice
Wednesday	1.-2.	8:00-9:30	PhDr. Horynová	Speech therapy in rehabilitation. Dysphagia - speech therapist approach
30.9.	3.-5.	9:45-12:10	PhDr. Gerlichová	Role of the special education teacher in rehabilitation. Introduction to Music therapy.
Thursday	1.-3.	8:00-10:30	Doc. MUDr. Angerová	Challenges for patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) Round in the daily treatment center for ABI patients ABI patient rehabilitation
1.10.	4.-5.	10:45-12:10	Mgr. Doubravová	Cognitive rehabilitation
Friday	1.-2.	8:00- 9:45	Mgr. Hroboňová	Physical therapy. Physiotherapy in oncology
2.10.	3.-4.	10:00-11:30	MUDr. Klimošová	Clinical rehabilitation
	5.	11:45-12:10		Conclusion, final exam (multiple-choice test)

Week 26.10.-30.10., wednesday 28.10. national holiday 

Monday		8:00-8:15	MUDr. Kotková	„KNIHOVNA“ KRL ALBERTOV 7, First floor on right.  Organization points
26.10.	1.-2.	8:15-9:35	MUDr. Kotková	Introduction to comprehensive rehabilitation
	3.-5.	9:45-12:10	Mgr. Rodová	Occupational therapy and compensatory aids in rehabilitation
Tuesday	1.-2.	8:00-9:30	PhDr. Horynová	Speech therapy in rehabilitation. Dysphagia - speech therapist approach
27.10	3.-5.	10:00-12:10	Mgr. Kozel	Principles of physiotherapy, clinical practice
Wednesday	1.-2.	8:00-9:30		national holiday = no lectures
28.10	3.-5.	9:45-12:10		national holiday = no lectures
Thursday	1.-3.	8:00-10:30	Doc. MUDr. Angerová	Challenges for patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) Round in the daily treatment center for ABI patients ABI patient rehabilitation
29.10.	4.-5.	10:45-12:10	Mgr. Doubravová	Cognitive rehabilitation
Friday	1.-2.	8:00- 9:45	Mgr. Hroboňová	Physical therapy. Physiotherapy in oncology
30.10.	3.-4.	10:00-11:30	MUDr. Klimošová	Clinical rehabilitation
	5.	11:45-12:10		Conclusion, final exam (multiple-choice test)

Last update: Kotková Karla, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.09.2026)

Syllabus

Comprehensive rehabilitation, basic concept of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, WHO (ICF), basic terminology in rehabilitation, principles of examination in rehabilitation, basic information about myoskeletal medicine.

Speech therapy in rehabilitation

Occupational therapy, compensatory aids in rehabilitation

Pulmonary rehabilitation

Physiotherapy, basic principles, basic techniques

Rehabilitation in surgery and traumatology

Introduction into music therapy

The role of special teacher in rehabilitation

Theo role of psychologist in rehabilitation

Introduction into the problems of the patients after brain injury and traumatic brain injury

Daily treatment center for patients after brain injury, rehabilitation of the patients after brain injury

Physiotherapy in neurorehabilitation, using of modern technology in rehabilitation

Basic principles of physical therapy

Pain in rehabilitation, treatment possibilities

Legislation in rehabilitation, rehabilitation and sport.

Practical lectures:

Clinical work with rehabilitation medical doctors and physiotherapists takes place at clinical departments (Department od Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty Health Centre, Surgical Department, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

During students´clinical practical lessons they will examine also the patients after brain injury mainly at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Last update: Kolářová Jana (05.03.2021)

Course registration requirements

studying of  the 4th year of General Medicine

Last update: Klimošová Sylva, MUDr. (24.09.2024)