ECTS - Introduction to Medicine
Introduction to Medicine (MED101) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Introduction to Medicine | MED101 | 1. Semester | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Distance, Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | To gain knowledge about physician's identity, physician-patient’s roles, rights and responsibilities, medical education, history of medicine, basic ethics concepts and methods. Also, to gain skills for basic communication and medical practices. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | What is science; what is medicine; physician's oath; Atılım University School of Medicine: clinical ethics support services in Turkey; professionalism in medicine; visit to Hospital clinics; problem-based learning for medical ethics; basic medical skills; basic communications skills. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Welcome to Atilim University Welcome to Medicine: Dean's Messages Welcome From Phase I Students Introduction to Medicine: General Knowledge About Committee Orientation to Atilim University Medical School Orientation to Atilim University (Peer Training) Welcome to Medicine From the Aspect of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Welcome to Medicine From Pharmacological Aspect Welcome to Medicine From Anatomical Aspect Welcome to Medicine From Biochemical Aspect Welcome to Medicine From Histological Aspect Welcome to Medicine From the Aspect of Medical Biology Welcome to Medicine From Physiological Aspect Welcome to Medicine From Pathological Aspect Welcome to Medicine From Biophysical Aspect What is Medicine and How is the methodology of medicine? Concepts of Health and Disease Components of Health Phylosophy of health | - |
| 2 | Physician's Identity, Evolution of Physician-Patient’s Roles Deontology and Concepts of Medical Ethics Hand Hygiene and Personal Protective Equipment Rational drug therap Laboratory safety Medical history taking Introduction to Statistics and Biostatistic What is evidence based Medicine Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Malpractice Methodology of History of Medicine and Evolution of Medicine Pre-hippocratic Medicine Hippocratic Medicine | - |
| 3 | Clinical Skill: Hand hygiene Introduction to Pathology and Diagnostic Techniques Casualty in Medicine: Measuring and Critical Function Descriptive Statistic Social Responsibility Projects Medicine in Middle Ages Islamic Medicine | - |
| 4 | Clinical Skill: Using Personnel Protective Equipment (Mask, google, gloves, gown), donning and doffing off Epidemics that Changed the World Exam preparation and General exam | - |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Fundamentals of Biostatistics (8th Edition); Bernard Rosner; Cengage Learning, Boston, 2016. |
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| 2. Leadership: Theory and Practice (7th edition); Peter G. Northouse; SAGE Publications, 2015. | |
| 3. Principles of Biomedical Ethics (7th Edition); Tom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress; Oxford University Press, 2012. | |
| 4. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (1st Edition); Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie; Harvard Health Publications, 2018. | |
| 5. The Nature of Creative Development (1st Edition); Jonathan S. Feinstein; Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2006. | |
| 6. Cell and molecular biology (2th edition); Nalini Chandar, PhD, Susan Viselli, PhD, Lipincot Wiliams & Wilkins, 2019. | |
| 7. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (14th Edition); Bertram G. Katzung, Anthony J. Trevor; McGraw-Hill, 2018. | |
| 8. Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (5th Edition); David X. Cifu MD; Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2016. | |
| 9. Gray’s Anatomy for Students (3rd Edition); Richard L. Drake, A. Wayne Vogl, Adam W. M. Mitchell; Churchill Livingston Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2015. | |
| 10. Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (13th Edition); John E. Hall; Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2016. | |
| 11. Histology and Cell Biology: An Introduction to Pathology (4th Edition); Abraham L. Kierszenbaum, Laura L. Tres; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2015. | |
| 12. Medical Microbiology (8th Edition); Patrick Murray, Ken Rosenthal, Michael Pfaller; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2016. | |
| 13. Molecular and Cellular Biophysics; Meyer B. Jackson; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. | |
| 14. Robbins Basic Pathology (10th Edition); Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Jon C. Aster; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2018. | |
| 15. Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry (30th Edition); Victor W. Rodwell, David Bender, Kathleen M. Botham, Peter J. Kennelly, P. Anthony Weil; McGraw-Hill, 2015. | |
| 16. Molecular cell biology (8th edition); Harvey Lodish, W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 2016. | |
| 17. Molecular biology of the cell (6th edition); Bruce Alberts, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. | |
| Other Sources | 18. Using Personal Protective Equipment:https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/using-ppe.html |
| 19. Epidemic Disease Occurrence: https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
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| Attendance/Participation | 15 | 2 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | 5 | 10 |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | - | - |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 90 |
| Toplam | 21 | 102 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 20 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 80 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Integrates and utilizes the information, skills, and approaches obtained from basic, clinical, and medical sciences, behavioral sciences, and social sciences when offering healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 2 | Offers healthcare services to patients with a biopsychosocial approach where the sociodemographic and sociocultural backgrounds of these individuals are taken into consideration, focusing on the universal human values, ethical principles, and professional duties; without exercising discrimination on the basis of language, religion, race, or sex. | X | ||||
| 3 | Aims to protect, improve, and develop individual and public health when offering healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 4 | Performs the necessary studies in sustaining and improving health, taking into the individual, public, social, and environmental factors to affect it. | X | ||||
| 5 | Trains healthy individuals/ patients, their relatives, and other healthcare workers in healthcare upon determining the features, requirements, and expectations of their target audience. | X | ||||
| 6 | Exercises a safe, rational, and effective approach in the procedures of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation; while offering healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 7 | Implements interventional and/or non-interventional practices in a way that is safe and effective for patients during the procedures of diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation. | X | ||||
| 8 | Offers healthcare services taking into account the health and safety of patients and employees. | X | ||||
| 9 | Takes the regional and global changes in physical and socioeconomic settings to affect health, as well as the changes in the individual features and behaviors of patients referring to them into account, while offering healthcare. | X | ||||
| 10 | Takes the good medical practices into account while performing their duties. | X | ||||
| 11 | Undertakes the tasks and duties within the framework of their professional ethical rules, as well as their legal rights and duties. | X | ||||
| 12 | Stands for the improvements in the manner in which healthcare services are offered, taking into account the concepts of social reliability and social duty, in an effort to protect and improve individual and public health. | X | ||||
| 13 | Evaluates the effects of health policies and healthcare practices on public health indicators, and, where required, amends their evaluation on the grounds of scientific and social needs; in an effort to help improve the quality of healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 14 | Leads their healthcare team while offering healthcare services, in a participative, and collaborative manner. | X | ||||
| 15 | Establishes positive relationships within their healthcare team; and where needed, easily adapts to various positions among their team. | X | ||||
| 16 | Exercises effective communication with patients, the relatives of patients, healthcare professionals, and groups from other professions, as well as institutions and organizations. | X | ||||
| 17 | Plans and conducts scientific studies on the society to which they serve, and use the results of these, or those from other studies, to benefit the society. | X | ||||
| 18 | Accesses the current literature on their profession, and evaluates them with a critical approach. | X | ||||
| 19 | Chooses the correct sources of learning to improve the healthcare services that they offer, and regulates their own learning process. | X | ||||
| 20 | Demonstrates the skills of obtaining and evaluating new information, integrating newer pieces of information with their current ones, as well as adapting to changing conditions throughout their professional life. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 4 | 15 | 60 |
| Laboratory | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| Total Workload | 135 | ||