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INTERNAL MEDICINE
– To be present for at least 6 hours per day (30 hours per week, including 1 week Infectology).
– Activities should include the following subjects: general survey of hospital/department organization,
examination of patients in the Medical Department, with special emphasis to case history taking
and full physical examination.
– The students should gain practice in patient documentation, problem-oriented medical record
keeping, taking of pulse, blood pressure, temperature, measuring weight and height of patients.
– Participate in the preparation of diagnostic and therapeutic plan for patients.
– Be present at invasive and semi-invasive interventions (taps of abdominal and chest fluid,
preparation of bone marrow smear etc.).
– Learn how to take venous blood.
– To spend time at the outpatient department.
– To practice basic laboratory techniques needed in bedside diagnosis (urinalysis, stool examination,
use of dip sticks etc.).
– To be on night duty at least twice per month.
– Consultations in gastroenterology, diabetes, hematology, endocrinology, cardiology,
sonography, X-ray, ECG etc.
– Watch endoscopy performed.
– See the intensive coronary care unit.
– Be present at postmortems.
– Regular consultations with the doctor responsible for the student.
– All these activities should be carefully supervised by members of the medical staff.
– The students should also practice communication with patients and their relatives, while giving
them relevant medical information on the disease but avoiding conflicts with medical confidentiality.
– Students should take an active part in medical consultations concerning their patients, as well as in
the medical conferences in the department.
– The students should practice the prescription of commonly used drugs.
SURGERY
SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
– Acting as a HO or SHO under strict supervision, including administration and practical skills.
– Admitting of patients with full physical examination, including breast and PR examinations.
– Theoretical planning for examinations and treatments for the examined patients.
– Continuous observation and registration of the patient’s condition with administration.
– Writing of discharge reports.
– Performing different injections (iv., im, sc), insertion of venflons, phlebotomies. To determine blood
group, performing of transfusions under strict supervision. Completion of administration.
– Insertion of NG tubes.
– Catheterization (urethral and suprapubic).
– Removal of clips and stitches.
– Changing of dressings.
– Assistance at abdominal and thoracic wash-outs or punctures.
– Taking part in consultations with other specialists.
– Theoretical decisions about operations. Consenting.
– Taking part in operations, scrubbing in, stitching.
– Being on duty for 24 hours once a week.
– Examination and treating of emergency patients.
– Taking part in anesthesiological preparation of patients.
– Observation of premedications.
– Assistance at several anesthesiological procedures, including spinal, peridural and GA.
– Assistance at intubations. If possible, independent intubation.
Faculty of Medicine
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