General medicine, 6 credits

For admission to the course, a pass grade in the course Structure and function of the organ systems is required.

After the course, the student should be able to

• account, at a general level, for general medical diseases, the principles of general surgery and medical nutrition.
• be able to formulate, record and evaluate a health declaration.
• be able to interpret and evaluate information in the dental patient's health declaration.
• know and understand the value of medical sampling and analysis.
• be able to account for medical diseases that imply an increased risk for complications in connection with a dental treatment.
• be able to understand how products and materials used in dental care affect peoples' general health.
• be able to account for medical diseases where the disease can pose a risk for the treating dentist.
• be able to account for medical diseases with oral findings or symptoms which should lead to referral for internal medical assessment.
• be able to recognise important emergency medical conditions.
• be able to take relevant measures in medical complications during dental treatment.
• know conditions and patient groups when preventive dental assessment and treatment is indicated.
• have the ability to collaborate with other health care professionals in general and regarding individual patients in particular.

Lectures in general medicine, including basic internal medicine, general surgery, medical nutrition, dermatology, psychiatry, ear, nose, throat, geriatrics and infection. "the Health declaration" is discussed during group seminars and theme days.
Sampling, test analyses and allergy tests are demonstrated in groups. Lectures in general medicine with dental orientation including medical risk patients in the dentist chair, medical risks for the dentist and tests of interest to the dentist.
Theme days with dental orientation including diseases with oral manifestations.
The lectures are given in collaboration with the courses oral pathology and pharmacology.

Lectures, demonstrations, laboratory sessions, seminars and theme days. Demonstrations and laboratory sessions are compulsory.

The course coordinator decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the student has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the course coordinator. Absence from a compulsory course element could mean that the student can not retake the element until the next time the course is offered.

Examination is carried out through written examination.

To pass the course, attendance at compulsory course elements is also required.

If the student's examination has not passed, the student gets 2 more examination opportunities. After that, the student is recommended to retake the course and is given 3 more examination opportunities. If the student has not passed after 6 trials, he/she has no more admission to the course. (HF chapter 6, section 11 a).

The course has been cancelled and was offered for the last time in the autumn semester of 2019. Examination will be provided until the autumn of 2020 for students who have not completed the course.

A course evaluation is carried out according to the guidelines established by the Board of education.