Emergency Medicine syllabus in China
- Emergency medicine is a recently formed medical specialty that focuses on the rapid
diagnosis of emergency or critical diseases and on the immediate treatment to prevent
death or further disability. - Make students to form the clinical idea of emergency disease and creat a solid foundation for further clinical work.
Course Description:
- The course is divided into 6 main sections: (1) Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques of Emergency care; (2) Medical Emergencies; (3) Environmental Emergencies; (4) Toxicologic Emergencies; (5) Other Emergencies; (6) Pharmacotherapy of Emergency Care.
- The important part of this clinical medical science is the clinical practice at the hospital where there is extensive contact with patients.
- After completing this subject, students should understand the basic theory of some important emergencies and their treatment.
Teaching methods
- Multi-media teaching
- Practice
Teaching hours distribution
Contents | Lecture | Self-study | Practice |
Part One: Emergency Medicine Overview | 2 | ||
Part Two: Emergency Diagnosis and Monitoring Technique | |||
Arterial Blood Pressure | 2 | 0.5 | |
Electrocardic Monitoring | 2 | 0.5 | |
Hemodynamics Monitoring | 2 | ||
Respiratory function Monitoring | 2 | ||
Intracranial pressure Monitoring | 2 | ||
Part Three: Emergency Therapy Technique | |||
Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation | 2 | 2 | |
Mechanical ventilation (MV) | 2 | ||
Blood Purification | 2 | ||
Blood component therapy | 2 | ||
Nutrition support in critically ill | |||
Part Four: Medical Emergencies | |||
Cardiac Arrest | 2 | ||
Hypertension Crisis | 2 | ||
Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema | 2 | ||
Serious Cardiac Arrhythmias | 2 | ||
Pulmonary Embolism | 2 | ||
Acute Respiratory Failure | 2 | ||
Severe Asthma | 2 | ||
Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding | 2 | ||
Stress Ulcer Syndrome (SUS) | 2 | ||
Acute Pancreatitis | 2 | ||
Acute renal failure (ARF) | 2 | ||
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) | 2 | ||
Diabetes Emergency | 2 | ||
Thyroid Emergency | 2 | ||
Adrenal Crisis | 2 | ||
Mixed acid-base disorders (MABD) | 2 | ||
Hypercalcemia Crisis | 2 | ||
Hyponatremia | 2 | ||
Intracranial hypertension syndrome | 2 | ||
Part Five: Other Emergencies | |||
Sepsis | 2 | ||
Shock Syndrome | 2 | ||
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) | 2 | ||
Part Six: Toxicologic Emergencies | |||
General Considerations of Toxicologic Emergency | 2 | ||
Organophosphorus Pesticide | 2 | ||
Alcoholic Poisoning | 2 | ||
Narcotics Poisoning | 2 | ||
Venomous Snake Bite | 2 | ||
Part Seven: Environmental Emergencies | |||
Heat Stroke | 2 | ||
Electric Injury | 2 | ||
High Altitude Disease | 2 | ||
Part Eight: General Surgery Emergencies | |||
Multiple Injury | 2 | ||
Bone Fracture and Disarticulation | 2 |
Examination pattern & marks distribution
- Theory examination once 80%
- Performance in the class 20%
Sample Exam Questions
References
- Emergency Medicine, A Comprehensive Study Guide. 5thEdition, David M. Cline Publishing Company; The McGraw Hill, 2003
- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,16th Edition, McGraw Hill Publications
- Oxford Textbook of MedicineVol I & II, ELBS Publication
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