Sports Medicine - FV144

• Title: Sports Medicine
• Guaranteed by: Academic Department of Internal Medicine (15-400)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:12/15, C [HS]
• Capacity: 45
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
• Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Radek Pudil, Ph.D.
• Comes under: General medicine - ELECTIVE subjects
• Pre-requisite : {General Medicine 2nd year}, FGP032
• Incompatibility : FG10046, FV10044
• Interchangeability : FA0108066, FG10046, FV10044

Annotation

Physiology of sport and exercise, exercise testing, growth, development, and young athlete, aging and the older athlete, gender issues and the female athlete, sports training, exercise prescription for special cases (diabetes mellitus, obesity, chronic obstructive respiratory disorders, coronary heart disease, hypertension, valvular and congenital heart disease, pregnancy).

Last update: Mrkvičková Patricie (03.02.2026)

Aim of the course

Outcomes (knowledge and clinical skills):
Detailed introduction to the issues of Sports Medicine.

Last update: Mrkvičková Patricie (03.02.2026)

Literature

Compulsory literature:

Madden, C., McCarty, E., Putukian, M., Young, C. Netter's Sports Medicine. Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 2021, 874 pages, ISBN 0323796702.

Recommend literature:

Cooper, G., Herrera, J., Curtis, S. Essential Sports Medicine. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021, 470 pages, ISBN: 3030643158.

Vilikus,Z., P. Brandejsky. Sports Medicine for English-Speaking Students, Charles University in Prag the Karolinum Press, 2006, ISBN 80-246-1191-0.

 

Last update: Mrkvičková Patricie (09.02.2026)

Requirements to the exam

Requirements necessary for the credit
Participation in lectures is a prerequisite for the credit.
A maximum of two excused absences are allowed. Excused absences must be sent only in advance in the excuse form. In case of a higher number of absences, the situation will be resolved individually with the Head of the Department of Internal Medicine.

Last update: Mrkvičková Patricie (03.02.2026)

Syllabus

Lecturer:

prof. Radek Pudil, M.D., Ph.D.

1. Reaction and adaptation of the organism to stress. Cardiovascular system and physical activity.
2. Physiology of physical activity 
3. The influence of the external environment on physical performance - physical activity in the heat, physical activity in the cold, the specifics of staying in an alpine environment 
4. Ergometry, spiroergometry. Functional condition evaluation, stress tests 
5. Training and regeneration (basic components of training, training plan, basic problems of regeneration, overload, overtraining, RED-S syndrome). Training by heart rate 
6. Sudden death in sports, pre-participation screening.  Preventive examination by a physical education physician, legislation
7. Nutrition and hydration of the athlete, food supplements (basic components of nutrition, optimal hydration of the athlete, risk of dehydration, hyperhydration). Somatotypes 
8. Specifics of sports activities for women and children, Cold-induced asthma. Inherited performance factors 
9. Health problems of diving (freediving and scuba diving), Pulmonary oedema of swimmers and divers

 

Last update: Bartáková Tereza, Bc. (27.01.2026)

Entry requirements

Entry requirements: successful completion of Internal Medicine I

Last update: Minařík Jiří, Ing. (29.08.2024)