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Introduction to Clinical Medicine I. - C1VL004

Title:	Úvod do klinické medicíny I.
Guaranteed by:	Department of Nursing 3FM CU (12-UOS)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2025
Semester:	winter
Points:	4
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	winter s.:
	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:6/20, C [HS] summer s.:6/28, C [HS]
Extent per academic year:	60 [hours]
Capacity:	winter:unknown / unknown (unknown) summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	PhDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. Mgr. Jana Heřmanová, Ph.D.

Schedule

Annotation -

The goal of the subject Introduction into clinical medicine is to gain insight into the healthcare practice through personal experience, and facilitate introduction into clinical propedeutics, following the course Cell. The ICM course is made of the lectures, seminars and practical exercises. The specific goals for the students are: - meet the patients/clients, practice communication (první kontakt s nemocným), get to know the environment of hospital and community care, - training of the basic clinical procedures in the school laboratory, - training of the communication skills - form relationship and do an interviews with a patient, assess the patient's needs - implement new skills during the practice in a community care setting, - cooperate with other members of healthcare team (interprofessional learning).

Last update: Heřmanová Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.09.2025)

Aim of the course -

meet the patients/clients, practice communication, get to know the environment of hospital and community care,

- training of the basic clinical procedures in the simulation classroom,

- training of the communication skills - form relationship with the patients, do an interview with a patient, assess the patient's needs

- implement the learned skills during the practice in a community care setting,

- cooperate with other members of healthcare team (interprofessional learning).

Last update: Heřmanová Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.09.2025)

Literature -

1. S.F.Smith, D.J.Duell, B.C.Martin:Clinical Nursing Skills, Pearson Education, 2004, New Jersey.

2. B.Workman, C.L.Bennett: Key Nursing Skills, 2004. London: Whurr Publishers.

3. Tate, P.: Doctor´s Communication Handbook, 8th edition, Tyaylor Francis LtD., 2019. 128 s. ISBN13 (EAN): 9780367198220

4. Macdonald, E.: Difficult Conversations in Medicine, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004. ISBN: 9780198527749

Last update: Svobodová Hana, PhDr., Ph.D. (27.09.2023)

Teaching methods -

Lectures, seminars, practical exercises, clinical stay

Last update: Svobodová Hana, PhDr., Ph.D. (27.09.2023)

Requirements to the exam -

Winter semester:

1. 80% attendance at practicums and seminars.

Summer semester

80 % attendance at practicums and seminars. At least 3 out 5 practicums.

The students will use ISIC to prove attendance at each practicum and seminar. It is the responsibility of the students to check that the attendance is valid in the electronic system.

Last update: Heřmanová Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.02.2026)

Syllabus -

General topics:

1) Hospital environment, hospital units, hygiene-epidemiological regime (hand washing)

2) Making a HCW - patient relationship, communication

3) Basic patient assessment (taking vital signs, risk prevention)

4) DVT prevention, leg bandages

5) Medication administration (p.o., infusion, s.c., i.m. injections)

6) Wound care

Communication skills:

1) Patient and his needs (case seminar - how to lead a patient interview)

2) Specifics of communication within healthcare environment

Last update: Heřmanová Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.09.2025)