Course: Rare Diseases - Cases from Genetic Clinic

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Course title Rare Diseases - Cases from Genetic Clinic
Course code LGE/VC021
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 4
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Srovnal Josef, doc. MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Procházka Martin, prof. MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Curtisová Václava, MUDr.
  • Štellmachová Júlia, MUDr.
Course content
Examples of specific diseases will be used to demonstrate the most common diagnostic strategies. The students will learn about the possibilities of use of the European portal Orphanet, of the world-wide database of heritable diseases OMIM, about the most prominent databases of genetic variants HUGO, ClinVar, about the European association of rare disease patients Eurordis and its Czech national branch ČAVO. The course will include persentation / discussion with selected patients who live with their rare disease.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Demonstration, Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
To demonstrate on examples from genetic clinic the specific characteristics of care of rare diseases. Rare diseases are characterized - 1) by the difficulties and sometimes long timespan of the diagnostic process, 2) by the interdisciplinarity of highly specialized care, 3) patients with rare diseases have a specific motivation to exchange information and experience and to collaborate in all aspects of care.
The students will learn that besides proper diagnostics and therapy, medicine of rare diseases includes a wide range of further aspects - all that can be described as "complex care". The patients have a substantial role: their needs and possibilities to share with their peers information about their disease as well as their motivation to participate in development of diagnostics and care of their disease are important for their understanding of their disease and for rational planning of their lives.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of the diagnostic process (at least on the level of Internal or Paediatric Propaedeutics), basic skills with information retrieval from the Internet (as e.g. Medline), basic knowledge of inheritance mechanisms.
LGE/VC012

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog, Seminar Work

Active participation.
Recommended literature
  • Nussbaum, R.L., McInnes, R.R., Willard, H.F. (2016). Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.
  • Tobias E.S., Connor M., Ferguson--Smith M. (2011). Essential medical genetics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): - (2021) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2021) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2018) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2019) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter