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Student activities in the clinical experience - discovering, developing and refining necessary competencies and skills related to maternal and child health care. Completion of 8hrs per week and a period of 6 weeks in the clinical settings where maternal and child health services are being rendered. Conduct of normal midwifery. Rotation through family planning clinic, antenatal clinic, labour ward, and postnatal wards in primary and tertiary institutions. Each student to conduct 20 - 30 antenatal palpations, 10 vaginal examinations, 10 - 25 normal Midwifery deliveries, care for 5 - 30 women during normal puerperium, and perform minimum of five Episiotomies. In the family planning Unit, each student must insert 5 -10 IUCD and give oral contraceptives to at least 10 women. The course lecturer and the clinical instructors conduct on the site supervision of the students.

Skull and larynx bones identification using cadaver. Flip charts, slides. identification and construction of maxillo-facial appliances for management of fractures such as Barrel Bandage skull plates, obturators, jaw exercisers, chin support, Acrylic splints and many others, list and identification of materials used in maxillo-facial technology such as Silicones, adhesives, ferrous oxides, dyes and many others. Definition and explanation of the different types of obturators such as Surgical obturators, intermediate obturators, and definitive obturators. Classification of defects and their complexities. Various methods of achieving retention in a maxillofacial prosthesis. Introduction to other types of prostheses such as eye, ear, nasal, and lip prostheses. Description of the anatomy of the head, noting the influence of surrounding muscles bones, and many others on the construction of facial prostheses and construct some commonly used facial prostheses.

Fabrication of all types of maxillofacial prosthetic devices such as eye, nasal, ear, and facial prostheses. Choice of materials and the process of the fabrication of all types of maxillofacial prostheses.

Review of anatomy and physiology of organs concerned. Basic concept and terminologies of medical and surgical conditions. Health care delivery systems and models of health care. Concept of adaptation and conditions that threaten adaptation/ disrupted homeostasis and psycho physiologic response to illnesses. Disrupted homeostasis and psycho physiologic response to illnesses and nursing interventions. Diagnostic measures in medical and surgical conditions. Evidence-based nursing. Concept and principles of rehabilitation. Critical thinking. Ethical decision making, Use of nursing process as framework for practice. Skin care and wound management. Nursing care of selected medical and surgical conditions.

Review of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology as they affect the systems of the body. Concept of oxygenation and disturbances of oxygen carrying mechanism. Blood pumping mechanism and blood vessel distribution. Anatomic physiologic overview of the respiratory system. Disorders of the respiratory system. Nursing care and management of patients with disorders of the respiratory system. Anatomic and physiologic overview of the cardiovascular system. Disorders of the cardiovascular system. Nursing care and management of patients with disorders of the cardiovascular system. Vascular disorders and inflammatory responses. Gastrointestinal system disorders. Metabolic disorders of ingestion, digestion and elimination. Genitourinary system disorders and management. Hepatic functions and disorders. Glucose metabolism and hormonal disorders. Nutritional disorders. Pathophysiology of cell proliferation and maturation, and neoplastic disorders. Care of patients with cancer and pain management. Medical care and nursing management of client/patients with specific acute and chronic medical and surgical conditions.

In the traditional paper based patient record, data are available mainly as a free text. This patient record is primarily used for patient care itself. Nowadays the data presented in patient records is used for other tasks than patient cars. For example, they are used for report generation to different local and international organisation, research studies, health resource allocation, case mix management, public health education, medical billing and insurance. For all the mentioned there is a need to transfer this medical data to a standard coding using international classification systems. This course introduces the students to different clinical coding/classification and nomenclature systems such as SNOMED, CPT, HCPS and ICD-O and the essential coding concepts and phases. The course is enhanced by practical exercises to strength students' understanding of different steps for accurately select and use different coding system based on coding purpose. The course emphasis on applying those concepts to medical billing and explains to the students’ different stages for proper diagnostic and procedural coding and forms preparation for billing or reporting to the health insurance provider.

Epidemiology of hearing disorder- global, regional and local. Otological considerations for hearing loss. Embryology, organogenesis of the ear and vestibular system. Post-natal anatomical development. Otophysiology, physical, mental, speech developmental and hearing. Pre and peri- natal causes of hearing loss/deafness. Deafness and genetic- syndromes such as skeletal/craniofacial abnormalities. Neurological disorders associated with deafness. ophthalmological factors associated with deafness. Metabolic/endocrine disorders associated with hearing loss. Renal syndromes related to deafness. Post-natal causes of hearing loss. Geriatrics conditions associated with hearing loss. Hard of hearing and deafness. Cerebro-vascular accident and hearing impairment.

Etiology, assessment, treatment, and management of children with autistic spectrum disorders. Evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders in children and adults. Anatomy and physiology of the normal swallow will be discussed. Videoflouroscopic records of abnormal swallows will be reviewed. Study of etiology, assessment, treatment, and management of children and adults who exhibit dysfluent speech-language patterns. An overview of the nature and causes of pediatric language disorders across clinical population and age groups. Provides a basic understanding of theoretical frameworks, identification protocols, and general assessment in intervention approaches.

Basic skills for First Aid and safety measures for sudden illnesses and injuries in the home, playground, workplace and public places. Management of emergency conditions due to falls, cuts and abrasions, drowning, burns, electric shocks and many others. Skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Definition of Accidents and Emergencies. Definition and principles of first aid. Current conditions of emergency, illness and injury. Signs and symptoms of surgical and medical emergencies and the reasons for referring them promptly. Types of specialists that emergencies are referred to. Accident prevention at home and in the community and many others. Emergencies, preparedness and Disaster management; Emergency Response. Planning, organisation and execution. Management of mass casualties, Pitfalls and barriers to disaster planning and response.

Iron metabolism, folate and B2 metabolism. Nomenclature, classification and investigation of common haemoglobinopathies, haemolytic anaemias, myeloproliferative disorders, lymphoproliferative disorders, haemostasis and disorders of haemostasis; investigation of bleeding disorders. Bone marrow. Practical classes.