Critical Care Medicine, Palliative Care and Radiology.

This course includes topics in critical care medicine with rotation in the intensive care unit, Cardiovascular and respiratory support, acute cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, renal and endocrine emergency management is covered.
Students are to monitoring in ICU, defibrillation, nebulization, resuscitation, and blood gas analysis.
They acquire skills in dialysis, endoscopies and pacemaker management.
Palliative Care topics include: hospice concepts, psychosocial issues, pain control, pharmacology of pain, pain syndromes, in AIDS patients, symptom control and ethical issues.
Radiology topics include introduction to radiology, interpretation of x-rays, ultrasonography, and the principles and/or interpretation of CT and MRI scans as well as aspects of radiation therapy.
The students are required to rotate through ICU (2 weeks), and radiology/ultra sound (2 weeks).

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course the candidate should be able to manage the most common emergencies in the intensive care unit. He should be able to triage patients according to the respective disease prognosis and manage patients of necessary on a palliative care basis.He should be in a position to read and interpret the common x-ray pictures, ultrasound pictures related to internal medicine. He should know the bais of computerized tomography.

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