Neurology

Code

11031

Academic unit

NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas

Department

MC

Credits

3.5

Teacher in charge

Prof. Doutor Miguel Viana Baptista

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

a) By the end of the course each student should be prepared to:

1. Appreciate that the patient has a neurological problem
2. Assess the common neurological presenting symptoms
3. Recognize the most prevalent neurological disorders
4. Manage the common neurological disorders

 

5. Follow-up neurological disorders as a general practitioner
6. Understand neurosurgical therapeutic options
7. Know the role of doctors and others in the care of neurological disability
8. Appreciate the ethical issues associated with neurological disorders
9. Identify the barriers to social integration of the neurological patient
10. Aknowledge the need of lifelong neurology education
11. Promote the diffusion of neurological knowledge in their daily routine
12. Understand the role of basic neuroscience research

 

b) By the end of the course each student should be able to:

1.            Take a neurological history

2.            Perform neurological examination appropriate to the problem

3.            Formulate a differential diagnosis

4.            Plan a logic sequence of investigations

5.            Understand the basis of the results of investigations

6.            Initiate treatment and monitor neurological emergencies

7.            Communicate information clearly and appropriately.

8.            Search relevant information from neurological literature

 

Prerequisites

Students are expected to have completed basic neuroscience courses and to be familiar with the hospital environment. General medical clinical skills and attitudes are required.

Subject matter

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 1: 15/09/2014 - 14h; 16/02/2015 – 14h	Lecture 2: 15/09/2014 - 15h; 16/02/2015 – 15h
Title	Introduction; Motor System	Extrapiramidal motor system
Faculty	Prof. Miguel Viana Baptista	Prof. Paulo Bugalho

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 3: 22/09/2014 - 14h; 24/02/2015 – 14h	Lecture 4: 22/09/2014 - 15h; 24/02/2015 – 15h
Title	Sensory system	Cranial Nerves
Faculty	Dra. Elmira Medeiros	Dr. Marcelo Mendonça

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 5: 29/09/2014 – 14h; 02/03/2015 – 14h	Lecture 6: 29/09/2014 – 15h; 02/03/2015 – 15h
Title	Vision and oculo-motor system	Coma
Faculty	Dr. Luís santos	Dr. Luís Santos

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 7: 06/10/2014 – 14h; 9/03/2015 – 14h	Lecture 8: 06/10/2014 – 15h; 9/03/2015 –15h
Title	Vestibular system	Diseases of the spinal cord
Faculty	Dra. Luísa Alves	Dra. Luísa Alves

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 9: 13/10/2014 – 14h; 16/03/2015 – 14h	Lecture 10: 13/10/2014 - 15h; 16/03/2015 -15h
Title	Delirium	Neuroradiology
Faculty	Dr. Luís Santos	Dr. Pedro Soares

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 11:  13/10/2014 – 16h; 16/03/2015 – 16h	Lecture12: 13/10/2014 – 17h; 16/03/2015 – 17h
Title	Cerebrovascular Diseases I	Cerebrovascular Diseases II
Faculty	Prof Miguel Viana Baptista	Dra. Sofia Calado

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 13: 20/10/2014 – 14h; 23/03/2015 – 14h	Lecture 14: 20/10/2014 – 15h; 23/03/2015 – 15h
Title	Headache	Cognitive functions and dementia
Faculty	Dra. Sofia Calado	Dra. Luísa Alves

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 15: 20/10/2014 – 16h; 23/03/2015 – 16h	Lecture 16: 20/10/2014– 17h; 23/03/2015 – 17h
Title	Peripheral Neuropathy	Muscle Disorders
Faculty	Dra. Elmira Medeiros	Dr. Luís Santos

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 17: 27/10/2014 – 14h; 30/03/2015 – 14h	Lecture 18: 27/10/2014 – 15h; 30/03/2015 – 15h
Title	Infections of the nervous system	Demyelinating Disorders
Faculty	Dra. Sofia Calado	Dra. Ana Sofia Correia

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 19: 27/10/2014 – 16h; 30/03/2015 – 16h	Lecture 20: 27/10/2014 – 17h; 30/03/2015 – 17h
Title	Epilepsy I	Epilepsy II
Faculty	Dr. José Carlos Ferreira	Dr. José Carlos Ferreira

 

Number / Dates / Time	Lecture 21: 03/11/2014 – 14h; 06/04/2015 – 14h	Lecture 22: 03/11/2014 – 15h; 06/04/2015 – 15h
Title	Cranial and vertebral trauma	Intracranial hypertension / CNS neoplasms
- Clinical Neurology Aminoff, Greenberg and Simon. 6th Edition 2007. Lange Medical Publications   - Neurological Examination Made Easy. Geraint Fuller. 4th Edition 2008. Churchill Livingstone. Elsevier   -DeMyer's-The Neurologic Examination: A Programmed Text, 6th Edition 2011. Mc Graw Hill Biller/Gruener/Brazis   - Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated. Lindsay/Bone/Fuller. 5th Edition 2010. Churchill Livingstone   - Adams and Victor´s Principles of Neurology. Ropper/Samuels. 9 th Edition 2009. McGrawHill   - Correlative Neuroanatomy and Functional Neurology   Joseph G. Chusid. 19th Edition 1986. Lange Medical Publications     N.B.: Slides are available to students at www.fcm.unl.pt Teaching method LECTURES   Lectures will take place, weekly, on monday afternoon, according to the schedule displayed below, at Hospital Egas Moniz theatre (located in the second floor near the operation room). In each year neurology lectures will occur twice (September to January and February to June). The course is composed by 24 lectures of fifty minutes duration.   PRACTICAL TEACHING   Practical teaching will take place in a two week cycle for each student group. The first week, daily at the neurology classroom (first floor) at the Neurology Department of Hospital Egas Moniz, and the second week, daily at room P12 (first floor) in the university building at Hospital São Francisco Xavier. Students should be present at 8.30 (daily signature is required).   STANDARDS   Students should present on time, dressing adequately. When dealing with patients careful discretion is the rule. Particular attention should be paid to clinical information. All information is strictly confidential. Patient files may be used under permission. Using the staff facilities of the Neurology department should not interfere with the daily routine. It is forbidden to eat in the classroom and in the clinical areas. The use of cell phones is not allowed in the classroom and in the clinical areas. Under pledge there are lockers and clinical equipment available (hammers, ophtalmoscopes and tuning forks).     Faculty from multiple departments participate, and to facilitate learning, teaching is interactive, problem-oriented and, whenever possible, clinically relevant. Every effort is made to assure that the students assimilate the most important material and acquire a solid foundation in the Clinical Neurosciences to meet the future demands of their general practice. Practical teaching includes a series of short duration (30-45min) seminars devoted to different neurology subjects, oriented to the practice of clinical neurology, with discussion of real-life situations in different clinical scenarios. During the rest of the day students participate in the clinical routine of the Neurology Department, Stroke Unit and Emergency Department, (including ward rounds to both to neurology inpatient clinic and to the stroke unit, attending to neurology outpatient clinic and to emergency department). The schedule requires students to take a clinical history, to prepare a Power Point Case report and to practice neurological examination on their own and with supervision.       Students are supposed to present a clinical history (oral, in groups), on the last day of the first week and a case report, (oral with Power Point) on the last day of the second week.     Evaluation method Final assessment (0-20 scale) is the sum of practical assessment (3 points), with final written exam (17 points). Practical assessment includes in the first week presentation of clinical history (group), short oral questions (individual), performance of the neurological examination (individual), and in the second week Case Presentation (group) and short oral questions (individual), (2 points), and assessment of student’s compliance to the practical teaching program (1 point). To be admitted to the final written exam students have to be approved in the practical assessment. The exam is composed of 68 multiple choice questions (0.25 points). The exam takes place in the main building of the Medical Sciences Faculty on the following dates (26/01/2015, 22/06/2015, 14/07/2015 and 22/07/2015). Students that score under 8 will not be approved and those who score between 8 and 10 should be assessed on an oral examination the following day. Courses Integrated Master Degree in Medicine