University Structure Departments Department of Phthisiology Educational activities
Requirements for the preparation of the student at the end of the studing of discipline.

The student should know:

- Etiology, classification, pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, methods of prevention and treatment of Tuberculosis;

- Methods of the out-patient rehabilitation treatment;

- dispensary work and rehabilitation of patients with tuberculosis, principles of prevention and medical-social expertise.

-History of phthisiology;

-Epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis and pathomorphosis of tuberculosis;

-Allergy and immunity in tuberculosis;

-Methods of examination of the patients with tuberculosis;

-Classification, diagnosis, clinical picture, treatment and differential diagnosis of pulmonary and some nonpulmonary forms of tuberculosis;

- Clinical manifestations and features of the main urgent complications in tuberculosis and their treatment;

- Characteristics of the course of tuberculosis combined with other diseases;

- HIV-associated tuberculosis;

- Social, specific and sanitary prevention of tuberculosis;

- Organization and early and timely detection of Tuberculosis;

- The organization of antituberculosis vaccination: indications and contraindications, post-vaccination complications;

- The organization of TB control measures in urban and rural areas, depending on the epidemiological situation;

- Structure and organization of the anti-tuberculosis dispensary service;

- Examination of temporary and permanent disability of tuberculosis patients;

- Role of the general practitioner doctor in the system of tuberculosis control;

- The principles of the organization of prophylactic examinations of the population;

- Classification, diagnosis, clinic, treatment of sarcoidosis of the respiratory system;

- Clinic, diagnosis and treatment of the pulmonary mycobacteriosis;

- The principles of the medical ethics at the examination and treatment of the patients with tuberculosis.

The student should be able to:

- to collect complaints, medical and the life history of the patient with tuberculosis;

- To implement clinical examination of the patient with pulmonary tuberculosis and some forms of nonpulmonary one;

- To plan the examination of the patients with tuberculosis, including cases with combined somatic pathology;

- To determine tuberculous abnormalites on the chest X-ray and to write X-ray protocol;

- to appoint additional examinations confirming the diagnosis;

- to evaluate the results of the  laboratory and instrumental methods of the examinations;

- to formulate and prove a clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis;

- Differential diagnosis of tuberculosis and nontuberculosis diseases;

- to administrate the chemotherapy according to the clinical categories of the patients;

- to identify adverse reactions to anti-TB drugs, to treat and prevent them;

- to provide emergency assistance in cases of pulmonary hemorrhage, spontaneous pneumothorax;

- To determine the indications for chemoprophylaxis of tuberculosis;

- To make the Mantoux tuberculin skin test and consider its results;

- To determine the indications for lumbar puncture, to evaluate results of the investigations of cerebrospinal fluid;

- to determine the type of the source of TB infection and to make a plan of measures for its improvement.