Year Three

 

Year Three
SN	Course Code	Course Title	Course Code (Arabic)	Course Title (Arabic)	Level	Credit Hours
25	COMM311	Community Medicine	311 طبع	علم طب المجتمع	5	4
26	FORM321	Forensic Medical & Toxicology	321 شرع	الطب الشرعي والسموم	5	2
27	MED 341	Internal Medicine	341 طبب	الامراض الباطنية	5	10
28	SURG351	General Surgery	351 جرح	الامراض الجراحية	5	8
29	MEDI395	Muslim Medical Ethics	395 كطب	اخلاقيات الطبيب المسلم	5	3
30	MEDI 305	Medical Research & Informatics	305 كطب	البحوث الطبية	5	6
31	RAD 366	Radiology & Medical Imaging	366 شاع	التشخيص الشعاعي	5	2
32	MEDI 301	Medical Informatics	301 معط	المعلوماتية الطبية	5	2

 

Courses Description:

 

Code: COMM 311

Course Title: Community Medicine

Credit hours: 4 (4+0)

 

Course description

This course will explore the principles and methods of epidemiology, demography, and vital statistics. It will also provide students with the oppurtunity biostatistics, epidemiology of selected diseases, nutrition health education, mental health and occupational health.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of this course, the students should be able to:

• Understand the process of infectious diseases transmission and the procedures for prevention and control.
• Identify major health problems in KSA and their risk factors.
• Know the principles of preventive medicine.

 

Code: FORM 321

Course Title: Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Credit hours: 2 (2+0)

 

Course description

This course deals with the principles of Forensic Medicine and the study of Toxicology. The main emphasis is on recent advances in the area of Forensic Medicine, how to deal with uncertainty, mechanical injuries, fire arm injuries, burns, mechanical asphyxiation and poisoning. This course also encourages students to discuss medical ethics and law in relation to Forensic Medicine.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Describe principles and Medico-legal (ML) aspects of personal identification of living and dead human bodies.
• Estimate age for living and dead bodies.
• Demonstrate how to diagnose death, PM changes.
• Explain and define ML aspects of wounds, asphyxia, pregnancy, delivery, abortion and write a ML report.
• Identify the criminal cases – report on sexual offences – first aid in poisoning.

 

Code: MED 341

Course Title: Internal Medicine

Credit hours: 10(6+4)

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Course description

The main objective of the course is to master how to take medical history from patients, and demonstrating the ability to perform medical examination elicit clinical signs, interpret findings, make a differential diagnosis, and order appropriate investigations. The course also aim of enhancing students skills in interpreting investigation results, referring their hypothesis (diagnosis) and their basis of evidence collect and develop a management plan for their patients. The course also aims at enhancing student’s communication skills and prepare them to join the medical work force.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Show an understanding of the etiological factors, clinical pictures, diagnosis of the   following topics in internal medicine: Cardiorespiratory, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, haematology, nervous systems, renal, musculoskeletal systems, and endocrine diseases’.
• Understand the role of environmental factors, genetics, and biopsychosocial factors in the development of diseases.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct a focused medical history and perform targeted physical examination appropriate to the patient’s chief complaint(s).
• Develop skills in basic clinical procedures by using mannequin-based simulation modalities and high- fidelity standardized patients.
• Interpret patient’s symptoms and clinical signs using the knowledge and skills learnt (in year 1and 2)  to reach the diagnosis.
• Interpret the knowledge and skills learnt from professionalism sessions (in year 2), and personal development skills (in year 1) and medical ethics (in year 3) to strengthen his/her communication and self-development.
• Understand the use of different investigations tool in confirming the final diagnosis, assessing the location, as well as assessing the stage/severity of the disease and any associated complications.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply appropriate clinical pharmacological principles in the selection of drugs to treat common internal medicine problems.
• Apply principles of evidence-based medicine in making diagnostic and management decisions in internal medicine.
• Acquire critical analysis skills including researching the literature, looking for supportive evidence, making decisions on the basis of available evidence. 
• Practice communication skills (with peers, patients, and members of the health team) and use interpersonal skills in their day-to-day learning activities such as bed-side teaching, task-based learning, and out-patient clinics.
• Utilize self-directed learning skills and enhance their abilities to work on their learning tasks and report back to their small group members.
• Demonstrate the ability to become accountable/responsible for their learning sessions in regard to attendance, contribution to discussion, working with peers, and getting the best out of each teaching/learning activities.

 

Code: CMED 301

اCourse Title: Medical Informatics

Credit hours: 2 (1+1)

 

Course description

This course is designed to provide the students with knowledge about advanced computer technology and its application in the healthcare field. It will also introduce the students to technological innovations in healthcare informatics such as clinical decision-support systems, medical expert systems, telemedicine, telepharmacy, multimedia, and internet health applications. The course will emphasize the use of computerized health information resources, patient-related programs and data manipulation software for application in profession-related tasks.

 

 

 

Course Main Objectives

• Provide students with basic up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills that is required in Medical Informatics.
• Students will learn how data, information and knowledge is created, managed and processed using Information and Communication Technology.
• Introduce the students to electronic health record, computerized physician order entry, imaging, and Internet health applications.

 

Code: MEDI 395

Course Title: Muslim Medical Ethics

Credit hours: 3(3+0)

 

Course description

The course aims to develop knowledge of the ethical aspects of medical jurisprudence and the provisions relating to medical practices and the medical profession of medical students from an Islamic perspective.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Identify non-ethical practices through discussion and socializing.
• Classify non-ethical practices according to their importance and priorities.
• Analyze difficult medical situation and look for solution from scientific references.
• Explain the ethics of medical practices from Islamic perspective.
• Summarize rights and duties of physician and other health professional from Islamic
• List the importance principles of research ethics from Islamic perspective.
• Summarize rules and regulation of medical  practice in Saudi Arabia
• Answer patients’ questions about health and disease from Islamic perspective.
• Break bad news to patients.
• Explain to patients and their relatives the Islamic rules related to recent medical practices.
• Present a lecture to his/her colleagues to encourage them to adopt Islamic ethics.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm to improve ethical aspect and its application in work environment..
• Demonstrate enthusiasm towards professional responsibilities.

 

Code: MEDI 305

Course Title: Medical Research

Credit hours: 6(0+6)

 

Course description

This course introduces students the key principles of scientific research. Students are required to plan, construct a research proposal, conduct a small research project, collect data, analyze them and write a paper using the guidelines and the format provided. Students with the help of their supervisors might choose an important health problem to research. They may also use data available in the hospital system as the basis for their research. Therefore, the course aims at promoting medical research, critical analysis, independent learning, and integration of research with medical practice. It also aims at enhancing student’s skills in the area of epidemiology, and biostatistics. The course comprises a series of lectures that aim at preparing students for the research component.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss the basic principles of research, research methods, ethics in conducting research, how to read and write a scientific paper, and how to critically analyze a research article.
• Apply the principles of scientific research.
• Prepare the ethical approval submission for a research project and be able to address comments and issues raised by the ethical approval committee and resubmit their article.
• Apply, under supervision, the different procedures in research including identifying a problem, formatting a research question, generating hypotheses, searching the literature, collecting data, selecting valid and reliable methods, critically assess the findings and interpreting results, constructing figures and tables, and writing the research report. 
• Practice, under supervision, how to present their research work and respond to questions.
• Use statistical methods in their research - how to select a particular statistical method, how to use SPSS program in conducting statistics, and how to interpret statistical reports.
• Practice, under supervision, how to write an abstract about their work and submit it to local or international conferences. 
• Write, under supervision, a research article for publication in a scientific journal.
• Practice, under supervision, how to respond to peer-reviewers’ comments and resubmit their work.

 

 

Code: RAD 366

Course Title: Radiology

Credit hours: 2 (0+2)

 

Course description

In this course, the students are taught the basic imaging principles, radiological techniques, radiological anatomy, and radiological findings in common diseases. It also provides students with the opportunity to understand the roles of various imaging modalities including Plain Film, Contrast Studies, Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Isotope Imaging, Angiography and the use of interventional radiology in patient’s management.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Identify radiological anatomy for different body parts.
• Differentiate between normal and abnormal radiographs.
• Compare different advanced diagnosis modalities, and their application.
• Select and recommend the appropriate radiological examination for the common clinical problems that need imaging evaluation.
• Recognize the imaging findings in common diseases on the different imaging modalities.
• Correlate the imaging findings with the clinical findings.
• Explain and discuss the steps of radiological examinations including patient preparation.
• Identify the indications and contraindications for the different radiological examinations.

 

 

Code: SURG 351

Course Title: General Surgery

Credit hours: 8 (4+4)

 

Course description

Graduate students will be able to demonstrate the clinical skills and methods required to clinically define common surgical diseases and will have the ability to adopt a problem solving approach to common surgical diseases.

 

Course Main Objectives

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Acquire the knowledge about the symptoms and signs of common surgical diseases.
• Formulate a reasonable differential diagnosis of surgical problems.
• Demonstrate the appropriate ways to identify physical signs of common surgical diseases.
• Perform, record, present, and discuss in detail skills of history taking of common surgical diseases.
• Demonstrate appropriate skills to conduct comprehensive clinical examination of surgical patients.
• Adopt self learning techniques in particular with the use of the teaching laboratory aids.