Cardiology (MED410) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Cardiology MED410 2 1 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
MED192, MED292, MED392
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Distance, Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Drill and Practice, Observation Case Study, Problem Solving, Team/Group, Role Play.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Prof. Dr. Celal Kervancıoğlu
Course Assistants
Course Objectives Approaching the patient with cardiovascular disorder, taking history, performing physical examinations, requesting and interpreting appropriate medical tests, pre-diagnosis/diagnosis of common circulatory system diseases, primary health care level therapy, taking preventive measures, follow-up of the patients. The aim of the course is to understand the emergency situations related to the circulatory system, provide the necessary clinical knowledge, skills and attitudes for initial intervention and proper transport to advanced health care unit appropriately, and provide information on current approaches and treatment methods.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Recalls the fundamental concepts of the anatomy and physiology of the circulatory system.
  • Explains the causes (genetic, developmental, environmental, autoimmune, neoplastic, etc.) and physiopathology of circulatory system disorders.
  • Learns the common symptoms and findings of the circulatory system disorders (chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, syncope, edema) and makes differential diagnosis.
  • Takes history of the patient presenting with circulatory system complaints using effective communicative skills and performs appropriate physical examination (inspection, basic auscultation, palpation and pulse evaluation, blood pressure measurement technique and evaluation, systemic examination).
  • Selects and sorts the tests used in the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases of the circulatory system (electrocardiography, exercise electrocardiography, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy report, chest radiography, echocardiography report, computed tomography, ankle-brachial index measurement, vascular doppler ultrasound report, conventional angiography reports, electrophysiological work, describes full blood, biochemical tests) in appropriate order and interprets the results.
  • Decides on the pre-diagnosis/diagnosis of circulatory system diseases by evaluating the physical examination with anamnesis and diagnostic tests.
  • Diagnoses arterial hypertension and hypertensive emergencies, applies preventive measures, performs emergency and basic treatments and follows-up at primary health care level.
  • Concludes the diagnosis of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction, applies preventive measures, performs emergency treatment and refers the patients to advanced health care unit appropriately.
  • Gets familiar with the interventional, surgical treatment methods and follow-up process of coronary artery disease.
  • Calculates cardiovascular risk, applies interpretations and methods of protection (main risk factors and prevention, recognizing metabolic syndrome and other new risk factors).
  • Pre-diagnoses heart valve diseases and congenital heart diseases applies preventive measures and refers the patients to advanced health care unit (diagnosis, treatment, for the acquired and isolated congenital problems of aortic, mitral, tricuspid, pulmonary valve physiopathology and follow-up).
  • Pre-diagnoses endocarditis, pericarditis, myocarditis/cardiomyopathies and refers the patients to advanced health care unit appropriately (symptoms, examination, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, prevention).
  • Describes the prophylaxis of endocarditis.
  • Diagnoses the emergency clinical conditions of the patients with heart valve disease during follow up period, applies basic treatments and refers the patients to advanced health care unit appropriately.
  • Diagnoses heart failure, applies prevention measures, performs emergency treatment, knows proper referral procedures and performs the primary health care level follow-up (diagnosis, classification, treatment, tracking).
  • Explains the interventional (ICD etc.), surgical therapies (circulation support devices, heart transplant etc.) and follow-up processes in heart failure.
  • Diagnoses heart rhythm disorders, performs emergency treatment and refers the patients to advanced health care unit appropriately (classification, symptoms, examination, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up).
  • Diagnoses peripheral artery disease, takes preventive measures, applies basic treatment and appropriately refers the patients to advanced health care unit.
  • Pre-diagnoses chronic venous disease, vascular malformation and lymphoedema and refers the patients to advanced health care unit.
  • Pre-diagnoses acute venous thrombosis, chronic venous thrombosis and pulmonary thrombo-embolism, regulates the basic treatment process, provides the patient's referral. Learns about medical and current interventional/surgical treatment methods.
  • Sorts the causes of pulmonary hypertension, pre-diagnoses and refers accordingly (diagnosis, classification, treatment, follow-up).
  • Diagnoses pulmonary edema, performs emergency treatment and refers the patients to advanced health care unit appropriately.
  • Makes diagnosis and differential diagnosis of shock, performs emergency treatment and refers the patients to advanced health care unit appropriately (cardiogenic shock, inotropic and vasopressor drugs).
  • Recognizes pregnancy related cardiac and circulatory system problems.
  • Organizes and presents the anamnesis, physical examination and diagnostic test results of the patient with circulatory system complaints.
  • Describes and takes preventive measures to reduce the frequency of common circulatory system diseases in the community.
  • Applies the principles of evidence-based medicine and patient-centered care during patient management (diagnosis, treatment, follow-up).
  • Follows ethical rules in patient and physician relations.
  • Communicates with patients and their relatives using effective communication skills.
  • Communicates effectively with other members of the team as part of the healthcare team.
  • Gathers, organizes and presents scientific data from different resources.
  • Understands the importance of multidisciplinary approach to individuals with circulatory system problems.
Course Content Symptoms, anamnesis, physical examination, diagnostic methods, cardiopulmonary by-pass, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, endocarditis, valve diseases, pericardial diseases, arrythmias, aneurysms, heart failure, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, thrombosis, hypertension, cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Symptomatology in heart diseases-2 Cardiac Examination-2 Electrocardiography-2 Chronic coronary artery disease-2 Treatment of Hypertension Acute Coronary Syndromes-2 Heart Failure-2 -
2 Rhythm Disorders-2 Heart Valve Diseases-2 Cardiomyopathies Pericardial Diseases and Myocarditis Congenital Heart Diseases Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Cardioversion, Defibrillation -
3 Acute pulmonary edema, Cardiogenic shock Infective endocarditis Heart failure and congenital heart diseases Acute romatic fever -

Sources

Course Book 1. Clinical Cardiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Rapid Learning and Retention Through the Medmaster) 5th Editionby Michael A. Chizner M.D. (Author), 2019
2. Goldman-Cecil medicineAuthor: Lee Goldman, (Physician); Andrew I Schafer, Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2020
3. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Loscalzo, Joseph Fauci, Anthony Kasper, Dennis Hauser, Stephen Longo, Dan Jameson, J. Larry McGraw Hill / Medical / Twenty-First Edition (Vol.1 & Vol.2), 2022.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 3 60
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury - -
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 4 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
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) 3 18 54
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 3 12 36
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 3 1 3
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 3 11 33
Total Workload 126