Course Description & Objectives:
- The student consolidates and improve history-taking skills, including the role of occupational, socio-economic and reproductive history in disease.
- Improved skills in examination of the patient looking at all systems, and in selecting relevant investigations and interpreting results.
- Rational approach to drug prescription.
- Disease surveillance, detecting emerging diseases and new epidemics on a medical ward.
- Teaching medical students concepts of history taking and eliciting physical signs.
- The rotations is as follows but, may be revised as required:
- oncology (3-4 weeks)
- tuberculosis (2 weeks)
- dermatology and venereology (2 weeks)
- paediatrics (4-6 weeks)
- intensive care unit (2 weeks)
- Uganda Heart Institute (2 weeks)
- radiology (2 weeks)
- Infectious Diseases Clinic to learn HIV/AIDS clinical care (4-6 weeks)
- Assessment by progressive clinical assessment and tests and or examinations
