MEDM510Cardiovascular Pathology
3 credits
Hemato-Oncology course is divided into 2 parts: The part one is on solid tumour. The part two is on hematologic malignancies The first session is an introduction to the course, followed by sessions on the carcinogenesis and principles of cancer’s therapy than a detailed one on prevention and early detection. The other sessions are about oncologic emergencies, paraneoplastic syndromes and detailed sessions focused on the most prevalent and the most lethal cancer as well on those that shows some exemplarity. The second part describes the most common hematologic malignancies as well as those who need particular care as they are extremely dangerous.
MEDM500Clinical Pharmacology and toxicology
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MEDL430 Or SCS420
This is a course of dermatology and plastic surgery delivered to medical students to get them acquainted with common dermatological pathologies and give them knowledge of treatments for skin pathologies and plastic surgery.
MEDM650Clinical Reasoning and Risk Management
3 credits
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDM560dermatology and plastic surgery
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (MED511 Or MEDL450) And (MED516 Or MEDL450) And (MED521 Or MEDL420)
During his internship, the student must be able to recall all his knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to gain skills to: Interrogate the patient and his family regarding the patient's medical history. Perform a complete and thorough clinical examination. Write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination. Develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians. Elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure. Respect ethics and deontology.
MEDM565Ear Nose and Throat pathology
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (MED511 Or MEDL450) And (MED516 Or MEDL450) And (MED521 Or MEDL420)
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDM505Electrocardiology and Hemodynamics
3 credits
This course will develop ENT pathology concerning the ear pathologies, and functional hearing disturbances, nose and sinuses diseases, oropharynx pathologies laryngeal and cervical, and facial pathologies in order to help the GP to treat the most frequent, to detect the most critical and follow up the most dangerous
MEDM525Endocrine and metabolic diseases
3 credits
This course is made to provide a rapid overview of common pediatric topics . This course implies much about the ability of the medical student to gather and analyze data and formulate a treatment plan In addition, an overview of the most frequent surgical situations in childhood is analyzed.
MEDM640Forensic & medical law
3 credits
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDM535Gastrointestinal disease
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MED511 Or MEDL450 And MED516 Or MEDL450 And MED521 Or MEDL420
The purpose of this course is to enable students to acquire notions of useful bases that any general practitioner should know, to be able to make diagnoses in everyday bone and joint diseases. The course includes concepts on pediatric orthopedics, notions on degenerative and infectious diseases and finally traumatology.
MEDM555Hematology Clinical Biology
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (MED601Or MEDM510) And (MED606 Or MEDM520) And (MED616 Or MEDM535 And MEDM540) And MED536 Or MEDM525 And MEDM515
This course descri!MEDR930A-B-C-D !!bes and elaborates on the process of reasoning facing a clinical situation, dealing with the best use of the knowledge gained by the student through the learning process considering above all the safety of the patient, of the team and finally his own.!The course will be divided onto 3 parts: (1) The reasoning process (2)The risk management (3) The ethical problems, with clinical examples concerning in particular organ transplantation
MEDM600Hemato-oncology
3 credits
This course is designed to teach students how to collect and analyze medical information. The course evaluates medical research and introduces students to the research methodology. Finally, the course focuses on ethics in research as well as some financial issues.
MEDM540Hepato Biliary and Pancreas Pathology
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MED511 Or MEDL450 And MED516 Or MEDL450 And MED521 Or MEDL420
Modern psychiatry has expanded its focus to other areas then alienation, such as anxiety in all its forms, somatoform disorders, pain, psycho-oncology, eating disorders, sexuality etc... It is estimated that around 25% of patients seen in general practice suffer from psychiatric symptoms or disorders. It is essential that (future) doctors receive more training in these newly recognized diseases that represent the quarter of their professional activity. Training in conventional psychiatry (such as schizophrenia) is no longer sufficient. The purpose of this course is to learn the basics in the diagnosis and treatment of the major psychiatric disorders found in child and adult psychiatry.
MEDM625Hospital internship II
3 credits
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDD700Hospital internship IV
1 credits
This course will allow the students to acquire knowledge of the essential principles of cell structure and functions. Structural and functional heterogeneity of cells, characteristics, location and sequence of main cellular events, signaling molecules and mechanisms of their action, biological membranes, their structural organization and functions, transport across membranes, the cell surface, its specializations, cell adhesion and communication, cell junctions, cell organelles, cell nucleus, its changes during the cell cycle and cell death will all be developed in this course. Furthermore, the students will study specific readings and literature independently in accordance with the topics of the course and they will analyze medical cell biology articles.
MEDM550Hospital training
3 credits
This course deals with the public health reasoning, communicable diseases, physical environment, food security and nutrition, chronic conditions, injuries, international health, humanitarian crisis, the fight against pain, transplants, patients’ rights. It allows student to acquire the basic public health concepts and a fair approach to Public Health: Move from the patient to the population, from the disease to the population's risk.
MEDM655Hospital training III
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MEDM625 Or MED591
The medical students are asked for a thesis which is intended to deliver basic principles that form the foundation for scientific investigation and prepare students with the fundamentals for development of research. They will use, under the supervision of their tutors, a clinical research method, and research the literature and public information in support of their work, to provide a written document to be discussed in front of a jury.
MEDD810Hospital training IX
3 credits
This course will initiate students into recognizing the histological structure of primary tissues in the human body. They will learn the basic functions of each tissue and the place it occupies in the organs .They will become aware of the importance of each structure for the good functioning of the organs.
MEDD720Hospital training V
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MEDD700
This course introduces statistical information. It includes: information regarding how to organize and summarize data, how to reach decisions about a large body of data by examining only a small part of the data, the use of statistical data in medical literature and using frequently used statistical methods of data analysis.
MEDD735Hospital training VI
3 credits
This class is a cellular human physiology course for students entering the medical professions. The students will study human cell functions and relate them to cell structure. Furthermore, this course involves the structure and function of the principal systems of the human body, as it pertains to how the body systems relate to one another in organization, adaptation, and homeostasis. While the course will focus on examining basic mechanisms in cell physiology, there will be a thread of discussion of disease mechanisms throughout preparing the students for the clinical physiology courses.
MEDD800Hospital training VII
1 credits
Human parasitology and mycology involves the study of animals or fungal organisms that might be pathogenic to their host. The course will explore the importance of parasites and fungi, their biological classification and the diagnostic techniques used in their identification. Opportunistic diseases (such as toxoplasmosis, cryptococcal disease, and aspergillosis in the setting of HIV) will be of particular importance in this course. Furthermore, there will be a focus on tropical parasitic diseases that are common to our region and that require the ability to make a rapid diagnosis and initiate the appropriate specific treatment (as is the case with malaria and amebiasis). The course will include clinical cases that will be discussed to maximize the understanding and grasp of relevant content and ideas
MEDD805Hospital training VIII
3 credits
This course will familiarize the students with the structure of different organs in the human body. It will integrate the data learned in the general histology courses. Some physiological hints will be explained.
MEDD815Hospital training X
3 credits
The course is a complete review of the different systems in their normal and physiological situation. Neurology: the motor, somatosensory, vegetative reflexes, cortical, and vigilance states, emotions and fluid studies (CSF circulation) and metabolism. Endocrine: regulating the release and action of different hormones with clinical implications of their excesses and their disability. Gastric, intestinal and hepatic: General concepts, digestive, liver and biliary secretion, intestinal absorption, digestive motility and continence mechanism. The purpose of this course is to enable the students to thoroughly study the nervous, endocrine, gastric and hepatic systems functioning in normal conditions. It prepares students for the understanding of semiology (endocrine, neurology, gastric, hepatic) and their pathology.
MEDD820Hospital training XI
3 credits
This course is given to medical students who have taken basic cell physiology and body anatomy. At this point of their training, the students will be introduced to the detailed functions of three major organs: the kidneys, the lungs and the heart. These three organs maintain the homeostasis of the body, namely: the body fluid status, the acid/base balance, the blood pressure, and the gaseous exchanges.
MEDM605Infectious Diseases
3 credits
The course assembles in two parts a broad spectrum of pathologies (the more frequent in daily practice of a general practitioner) in medical and surgical areas and helps the students to assess frequent and urgent situations in matters of diagnosis and therapeutics.
MEDD710Introduction to medical research
3 credits
The purpose of this course is the theoretical and practical acquisition of the fundamental basics in general functional histology. Outline: the histology techniques, supporting tissues, epithelial, muscle tissue, nerve tissue, hematopoietic tissue.!Methodology: theoretical acquisitions in lectures, tutorials and practical TD TP. Personal research work to strengthen and deepen these acquisitions. This course prepares the students for the understanding of the histology of organs.
MEDD725Medical and surgical critical care
3 credits
This course introduces the students to the human body and its many complex structures. The structure and function of important organs will be demonstrated, discussed and related to common surgical scenarios and current research. Each part of the course will focus on a specific area of the human body. This will help the students to apply their understanding of basic anatomy to common clinical scenarios and research.
MEDD715Medical and surgical therapeutics seminars I
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MEDD700
The teaching of the anatomy of the musculoskeletal system has changed in recent years in the direction of simplification, a return to the essential, eliminating many unnecessary details. The program of the musculoskeletal system concerns the descriptive and topographic anatomy of the upper limbs and lower spine including the sacrum and the anatomy of the skull and rib cage.
MEDD730Medical and surgical therapeutics seminars II
3 credits
This course helps the students understand how a well- organized and complete individual develops from the zygote (single totipotent) following inductions in chains. The aim is also to understand that the development of the human body is dependent on endogenous factors (regulatory genes) and is also dependent on external or environmental factors. This course is closely related to anatomy and also helps students to understand the anatomy of the adult.
MEDM620Neurological and Neurosurgical diseases
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (MED511 Or MEDL450) And (MED516 Or MEDL450 ) And (MED521 Or MEDL420)
The course assembles in two parts a broad spectrum of pathologies (the more frequent in daily practice of a general practitioner) in medical and surgical areas and helps the students to assess frequent and urgent situations in matters of diagnosis and therapeutics.
MEDM545Obstetrics and Gynecology
3 credits
This course enables students to know the basic concepts of forensic. It allows students to know the Lebanese legislation (laws and decrees) and their rights and duties. The content deals with aspects regarding consideration of a corpse, lifting body and intake of the autopsy, violence and victimization, forensic expertise. The course introduces the Law, structure of the Lebanese judiciary, the doctor's relationship with the law as well as the three components of medical law: medical liability, patient rights and bioethics.
MEDM520Pathologies of the urinary tract
3 credits
This course is made as a descriptions of the various rheumatic diseases most frequently observed in internal medicine and general medicine to rapid diagnosis and plan a course of action therapeutic and educational.
MEDM531Pathology laboratory
1 credits
During his internship, the student must be able to recall all his knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to gain skills to: Interrogate the patient and his family regarding the patient's medical history. Perform a complete and thorough clinical examination. Write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination. Develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians. Elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure. Respect ethics and deontology.
MEDM630Pathology of the musculoskeletal system
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (MED511 Or MEDL450) And (MED516 Or MEDL450) And (MED521 Or MEDL420 )
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDM615Pediatrics
3 credits
The aim of the course is to prepare future generalists for airway techniques, CPR techniques, analgesic techniques and other critical care and anesthesia skills to use in critical situations for their patients.
MEDM635Psychiatric disorders
3 credits
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDM645Public Health & work Medicine
3 credits
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDM515Pulmonary pathology
3 credits
The purpose of this course is to deliver to the student a thorough knowledge of different infectious diseases, which are the most useful for a general practitioner because of their prevalence, their severity, and the presence of possible therapeutic resources or their didactic interest. It will outline different disease processes and diagnostic procedure for each and allow the student to have hospital diagnostic and therapeutic responsibilities in decision-making procedures.
MEDM530Specialized Pathology
3 credits
The purpose of this course is to deliver to the student a thorough knowledge of (surgical and medical) diseases of the nervous system, that are the most useful for a general practitioner because of their prevalence, their severity, the presence of possible therapeutic resources or their didactic interest. It will outline different disease processes and diagnostic procedure for each and allow the student to have hospital diagnostic and therapeutic responsibilities in decision-making procedures.
MEDM610Systemic diseases and internal medicine
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (MED511 Or MEDL450) And (MED516 Or MEDL450) And (MED521 Or MEDL420)
During their internship, the students must be able to integrate all their knowledge in semiology and pathology in order to: interrogate the patient and family regarding the patient's medical history; perform a complete and thorough clinical examination; write a good medical observation based on the collection of data and the clinical examination; develop diagnostic hypotheses and discuss them with the residents and the attending physicians; elaborate a tailored plan of investigations based on a clear structure; propose and participate in the development of an adapted therapy; and respect the rules of ethics and deontology.
MEDD850AThesis of medicine
9 credits
This course introduces the students to different types of radiation, explains their effects on the organism and defines the basic principles of radioprotection. It illustrates the physics of the different imaging modalities (XRay, US, CT, MRI, PET), their utility in clinical practice and their optimal usage. Molecular imaging enables visualization of the cellular function and the follow up of the molecular process in organisms by using biomarkers. It has numerous potentialities and helps diagnose cancer and neurological diseases.