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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
FAMILY MEDICINE IN DAILY PRACTICE
Director: Prof. László Kalabay MD PhD
Tutor : Péter Torzsa MD Tel: 355-8530, e-mail: ptorzsa@gmail.com
Duration: 9 lectures and 3 seminars
Exam: Test exam
Credit value: 2 credit points
Minimum/maximum group size: 55/210
Key elements of these seminars include:
The structure and functioning of the Hungarian Primary Health Care System. Activity of the
general practitioners.
The ranges of normality as they will assist in recognizing and anticipating deviations from
normal and the earliest manifestations of disease
Quick diagnoses. Applying the best available evidence in investigations and and management
of common family medicine conditions.
The different roles of the physician and awareness of their own personal strengths and
weaknesses and how it affects the Patient-Doctor relationship.
The appropriate selection and use of screening methods for the early detection of disease.
The principles of preventative care and methods to implement appropriate screening and
patient education programs
Assessing patients’ illness experience within their family and social context
Learn to manage in-hospital urgent and emergency situations in primary care.
Management/treatment approaches of commonly presenting conditions
Rural medicine
Video communication to improve communication skills
Arrangement for the 2 weeks practice (rotation)
ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY – infectology obligatory elective
subject
2012/2013. I. semester
Lectures: 2 hours/week
Credits: 2
Exam type: multiple choice test
Participation: min. 70% is obligatory
Obligatory elective subject for medical students already trained in microbiology, pharmacology and
basic clinical subjects.
The subject gives an overview on the basic principles and practice of antimicrobial therapy. The
antibiotics represent one of the most important classes of drugs that are prescribed practically in
all branches of clinical medicine. It seems easy to use them and that is why we abuse them.
Discussing the most important clinical features of the frequent infections, the subject shows the
optimal approach to patients with infections diseases and antimicrobial treatment.
The first two lessons discuss the specific features of antimicrobial therapy, the basic principles of
empiric treatment and the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic concept that substantiates the
application of antimicrobials in term of choice, dosage and combination. The following seven
lectures deal with the specific features of the most important infections, such as respiratory tract