Comprehensive care and anatomy

More information about the minor Comprehensive care and anatomy

• Learning objectives

  1. To make students aware of the multidisciplinary approach to perioperative patient care and the complexity and interactions of physiological processes to surgical trauma.
  2. To deepen integrated clinical and anatomical knowledge by means of surgical anatomical landmarks and dissection room experience and the appreciation of human anatomy as seen through various imaging modalities.
  3. To understand and be able to describe insights into clinical practice of treatment decisions from the perspective of the doctor and the patient.
  4. To understand and be able to describe the concepts of shared decision making, advance care planning, and palliative care.
  5. Understand the most common physical, psychosocial and spiritual symptoms / problems encountered in palliative care, how to assess them and how to treat them.

• Teaching methods

  Interactive lectures, practicals, working groups.

• Type of assessments

  Writing assignment, research proposal writing, oral presentation, debate, two central exams.

• Recommended background

  Knowledge of basic medical science comparable to the end level of the second year of the Bachelor’s program is recommended.

• Literature

  An overview of the study material is placed on Canvas. 

• Target audience

  Bachelor’s students of Faculty of Medicine and external (and international) students with a (bio)medical background.