Adult Health (MED304) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Adult Health MED304 6 1 1 6 0
Pre-requisite Course(s)
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Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives To gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the health of newborn.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Evaluates the healthy child’s growth and development.
  • Makes a physical examination of the pediatric patient.
  • Evaluates the medical history and physical examination findings, and makes differential diagnosis.
  • Evaluates the vital signs of the child.
  • Describes basic diagnostic methods used in pediatric diseases.
  • Explains the importance of breastfeeding and the properties of childhood nutrition.
  • Describes and applies the childhood immunization.
  • Describes the preventive measures of decreasing the rate of common pediatric diseases in community.
  • Establishes a proper communication with the child and his parents.
  • Establishes a proper communication with colleagues and health workers.
  • Evaluates his/her individual competencies, and develops his/her individual performance through continues learning.
  • Explains the basic behaviors, cognitive and emotional properties of the child according to the child’s developmental stages.
  • Evaluates the child within a holistic approach with his/her family and environment, and detects the mental health abnormalities.
  • Understands the healthy child-parent interactions, and raises the awareness about needs of healthy family and populations.
  • Gains information about the healthy biopsychosocial development and the requirements.
  • Gains information about the ways to prevent from the risky behaviors in child and adolescents.
Course Content Social and behavioral determinants of health and illness; healthy eating; obesity in adults; smoking and counseling for smoking cessation; preventive services for the adult; periodic health examinations; mechanisms of aging and physiological changes caused by aging; comprehensive geriatric evaluation in elderly.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Global infant and child health; Infant and child health in Turkey; Special risk populations; Child rights; WHO and UNICEF organizations; Taking general and problem-based medical history of the child; Normal pediatric vital signs; Physical examination; Communication skills; Assess the vital signs of the child -
2 Pregnancy; Pregnancy follow-up; Birth; Perinatal risks factors; Fetal to neonatal transition; Newborn; Support of the newborn and the family; Evaluation of the newborn; Delivery room routine care; APGAR scores; -
3 Growth; Development; Behaviour; The evaluation of the growth -
4 Follow-up well-child; Screening programs; Breastfeeding; Complementary feeding; Childhood immunization program; Immunization practice -
5 Study for the Final exam and Final exam -

Sources

Course Book 1. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (13th Edition); Bertram G. Katzung,‎ Anthony J. Trevor; McGraw-Hill, 2015.
2. Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Geriatrics (2nd Edition); Brie Williams, Anna Chang, C. Seth Landefeld, Cyrus Ahalt, Rebecca Conant, Helen Chen; McGraw-Hill, New York, 2014.
3. Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (6th Edition); Jeffrey B. Halter, Joseph G. Ouslander, Mary E. Tinetti, Stephanie Studenski, Kevin P. High, Sanjay Asthana; McGraw-Hill, New York, 2009.
4. Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (4th Edition); Andres Martin, Fred R. Volkmar, Melvin Lewis; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007.
5. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (19th Edition); Robert M. Kliegman, Bonita F. Stanton, Joseph W. St. Geme, Nina F. Schor; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2011.
6. Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (6th Edition); Anita Thapar, Daniel S. Pine, James F. Leckman, Stephen Scott, Margaret J. Snowling, Eric A. Taylor; Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
7. Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine (2nd Edition); Suzanne Kurtz,‎ Juliet Draper, Jonathan Silverman; Radcliffe Publishing, Abingdon, 2005.
8. The Harriet Lane Handbook (20th Edition); Branden Engorn, Jamie Flerlage; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2015.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application 15 20
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury - -
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 80
Toplam 16 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
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
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
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 5 10 50
Laboratory
Application 4 5 20
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 4 5 20
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project 4 3 12
Report
Homework Assignments 1 2 2
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 4 5 20
Total Workload 124