Essentials of Surgery I - FGP033

• Title: Essentials of Surgery I
• Guaranteed by: Academic Department of Surgery (15-440)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/15, C [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Jiří Manďák, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : {General Medicine 1st year}
• Incompatibility : FV10073
• Interchangeability : FA0105027
• Is pre-requisite for: FGP045, FGP053, FGP052
• In complex pre-requisite: FGP064, FGP065, FGP066, FGP067, FGP068, FGP069, FGP070, FGP071, FGP072, FGP073, FGP074, FGP075, FGP076, FGP077, FGP078, FGP079, FGP080, FGP081, FGP082, FGP083, FG10050, FG10051, FG10052, FG10054, FG10055, FG10056, FG10057, FG10058, FG10059, FG10060, FG10061, FG10062, FG10063, FG10064, FG10065, FG10066, FG10067, FG10068, FG10076, FG10077, FG10078, FG10079, FG10080, FG10081, FG10092, FG10093, FG10094, FG10095, FG10097

Annotation

Essentials of Surgery present to students the first theoretical knowledge in surgical propaedeutic by practical exercises. Students are informed about history of surgical specializations and their development, basic principles and terms in surgical clinical practice, methodology of surgical therapy, surgical instruments and aids and related anatomical and biological principles and surgical treatment. There are also information about the basic system of organization of surgical workplaces and interdisciplinary cooperation. Teaching is based on acquiring basic surgical practical skills.

Last update: BYDZOVSKAM/LFHK.CUNI.CZ (09.02.2026)

Aim of the course

The aim by study (subject Essentials of Surgery I):

The student will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the area of:

- surgical patient examination, preoperative examination

- laboratory and imaging methods in surgery, documentation in surgery

- preparation of surgical group and operation field, surgical procedures, surgical instruments, rules of movement on the operating theatre

- pre-operative preparation of the patient, general surgical procedures

- infection, local, total, nosocomial, basic principles of antibiotic therapy, disinfection, sterilization, aseptic and antiseptic principles

Last update: BYDZOVSKAM/LFHK.CUNI.CZ (09.02.2026)

Literature

Recommended literature

1. LIM, Eric Kian Saik, LOKE Yoon Kong a THOMPSON Alastair M. Medicine & surgery: an integrated textbook. New York: Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, 2007. ISBN 978-0443072604.

2. Doherty P. Current Diagnosis and Treatment Surgery, 15th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2020. ISBN 10: 1260122212 ISBN 13: 9781260122213.

3. GARDEN, Oliver, BRADBURY,Andrew W, FORSYTHE,  John L. R, PARKS, Rowan W. Principles and Practice of Surgery. 6th Edition 2012. ISBN 978-0702068591.
4. https://www.amboss.com/int/campus-access/czechelib

Last update: BYDZOVSKAM/LFHK.CUNI.CZ (09.02.2026)

Requirements to the exam

Students must check the schedule for practical training and prepare for these in advance.

Students are required to prepare for practical training in advance, according to the assigned topic.

Credit

• Credit will be awarded based on the following: 100% attendance, Active participation in practical training.
• Any absence must be authorised in advance by the Academic Department of Surgery secretariat. The head of the department will then decide whether to accept the excuse and how the student should make up for the missed practical training.

Students who repeat a course are required to complete all their studies.

Students on exchange programmes (Erasmus, etc.) must complete their full study obligations.

 

Last update: BYDZOVSKAM/LFHK.CUNI.CZ (09.02.2026)

Syllabus

Teachers

• Mohamed Adil Abdul Salam, M.D.
• Michael Bartoš, M.D.
• Pavel Póczoš, M.D., Ph.D.
• Adrián Alexovič, M.D.
• Roman Kostyšyn, M.D., Ph.D.
• Jasmin Draganovič, M.D.
• Jakub Hrunka, M.D.
• Hanka Princlová, M.D.
• Oleg Izmaylov, M.D.
• Petr Krůpa, M.D., Ph.D.
• Martin Kanta, M.D., Ph.D.
• Minh Nguyet Tranová, M.D.
• Martin Votypka, M.D.
• Martin Dostál, M.D.
• Erika Kristová, M.D.
• Kamil Sodoma, M.D.
• Adam Přibyl, M.D.
• Jan Šimek, M.D., Ph.D.
• Ondřej Rada, M.D.
• Austin Kallarackal Paul, M.D.
• Michal Leško, M.D.
• Matúš Brehuv, M.D.
• Jiří Strnádek, M.D.
• Alexander Hudák, M.D.
• Stanislav Jiška, M.D.
• Assoc. Prof. Igor Guňka, M.D., Ph.D.

Themes of the practical exercises

1. Surgical patient examination. Preoperative examination.
2. Laboratory and imaging methods in surgery. Documentation in surgery.
3. Preparation of surgical group and operation field. Surgical procedures, surgical instruments. Rules of movement on the operating theatre.
4. Pre-operative preparation of the patient. General surgical procedures.
5. Infection, local, total, nosocomial. Basic principles of antibiotic therapy. Disinfection, sterilization, aseptic and antiseptic principles.

It is necessary to have: suitable shoes, a clean white coat and a name tag (without this, students can be excluded from the practical lesson)!

Detailed description and division of students into groups (see the schedule board on the ground floor opposite the elevators, Bedrna's pavilion, building No. 21, Dept. of Surgery).

Students will look for a specific teacher according to the schedule at the departments.

Further details and information on the course of the internships will be posted on the schedule board.

Last update: BYDZOVSKAM/LFHK.CUNI.CZ (09.02.2026)

Entry requirements

Pre-requisite: General Medicine 1st year

Last update: BYDZOVSKAM/LFHK.CUNI.CZ (09.02.2026)