Emergency surgery : textbook for the 6th year students

Abstract

The typical, comprehensive, updated syllabus on Surgery (2015) for students of higher medical education of accreditation level 4 envisages learning a large volume of the course of Clinical Surgery (namely "Abdominal Surgery" by the 4th year students and "Thoracic, Cardiovascular, Endocrine Surgery” by the 5th year students) after the course of “General Surgery” learned by the 3rd year students. The 6th year students doing the course of Surgery expand and consolidate the earlier obtained theoretical knowledge and improve their practical skills in the most complex and most dangerous for the human health component of surgery, Emergency Surgery. The Medical License Integrated Examination "KROK 2. General Medical Training" (Surgery) and the Integrated Graduate Practical-Oriented Examination in Surgical Diseases assess the effectiveness of studying Surgery at a university concerning the issues of surgical pathology diagnosis, especially urgent, and readiness to provide emergency medical aid for patients with surgical emergencies. The textbook for the 6th year students combines the teaching materials of the department, which were designed to study 25 topics in practical classes and 10 topics for self-study on the questions of Emergency Surgery. Each topic in the textbook contains sections corresponding to professionally-oriented tasks of the medical activity, approved by the branch standards of higher education - "Educational-professional program" and "Educational-qualification characteristic" (Kyiv, 2003), which were supplemented and updated in 2010. The textbook, prepared by the teaching staff of the Department of Surgery No. 1 of KNMU, is designed to provide the students with the necessary teaching materials in all topics of practical training and self-study work, which will improve the training of future surgeons in accordance with the requirements of the national standards of higher education.