Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Copenhagen offers a comprehensive program in Clinical Course in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to function as a doctor in clinical basic training and to begin an introductory position with a focus on gynaecology and obstetrics or general medicine.

Program Description

The program aims to teach students gynaecology and obstetrics at a level where they can function as a doctor in clinical basic training and to begin an introductory position with a focus on gynaecology and obstetrics or general medicine. The communication training focuses on conveying serious messages and handling patients' emotional reactions to the doctor's information, as well as systematic reflection on how to consciously and professionally structure and manage conversations.

Learning Objectives

After completing the course, students are expected to be able to:

• Explain the course of normal pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period
• Outline the examination program in normal pregnancy, including prenatal screening
• Describe indications and examination methods for prenatal diagnosis and fetal monitoring during pregnancy and childbirth
• Describe risk factors, including psychosocial factors and medical conditions, that can affect or influence pregnancy
• Evaluate acute treatment-requiring conditions during pregnancy
• Describe hypertensive conditions during pregnancy, including possible complications and treatment
• Describe principles for diagnosing and treating threatened preterm labor, twin pregnancy, large fetal size, intrauterine growth restriction, preterm labor, irregular fetal presentation, lack of progress, injuries to the birth canal, and infections during the postpartum period
• Describe the cause of bleeding in the 3rd trimester, during childbirth, and in the puerperium, as well as describe treatment options
• Explain the woman's hormonal cycle and physiological changes during menarche, menopause, and climacteric
• Describe methods for pregnancy prevention, including sterilization, and explain the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods
• Describe the legislation on and methods for induced abortion, as well as explain the information to the abortion-seeking woman, including ethical issues
• Explain the principles for handling conditions with bleeding and pain in early pregnancy
• Describe screening programs for cervical precancer

Skills

• Take anamnesis from a normal pregnant woman
• Evaluate a pregnant woman in the 3rd trimester and/or at birth with the 4 hand grips, symphysis/fundus measurement, heart sound, and vaginal exploration
• Evaluate a cardiotocography curve, fill out and interpret a partogram, and register an APGAR score
• Take anamnesis from a patient with a common gynaecological disease
• Perform a gynaecological examination, including relevant sampling

Competencies

• Perform a gynaecological examination and perform the most common procedures related to it in a standardized and systematic manner

Formal Requirements

• Course certificate in clinical course in internal medicine
• Course certificate in clinical course in surgery
• Course certificate in patient safety and quality development
• Course certificate in clinical course in ophthalmology
• Course certificate in clinical course in otolaryngology
• Course certificate in clinical course in dermatology and venereology
• Course certificate in clinical course in psychiatry, including child and adolescent psychiatry
• Course certificate in clinical course in neurology and neurosurgery

Teaching Methods

• Hospital department stay
• Clinic hours
• Student-activating group teaching
• Skill training
• Communication training

Notes

• In addition to evaluating the course itself, it is also evaluated through an exam in gynaecology and obstetrics
• The language of instruction is Danish, but English-speaking teachers may occur to a limited extent
• All inquiries regarding teaching, premises, group formation, and exams are referred to the Section for Study Service

Workload

• Category:
  • Lectures: 6 hours
  • Group teaching: 34 hours
  • Clinic: 140.5 hours
  • Total: 180.5 hours

Feedback Form

• Individual
• Ongoing feedback during the teaching process

Enrollment

• Self-service on KUnet
• The course is not offered to external students

Examination

• Point: 2.5 ECTS
• Exam form:
  • Course participation
  • Exam details:
    • Course certificate based on approved participation in the teaching and achievement of the course's learning objectives
  • Assessment form:
    • Passed/Not passed
  • Censorship form:
    • No external censorship
  • Internal assessor

Assessment Criteria

To achieve approval of the logbook and thus obtain a course certificate, the student must:

• As a medical expert and professional
  • Knowledge:
    • Witness an intrauterine procedure (ab pro, evac, hysteroscopy)
    • Witness a birth
    • Witness a section
  • Skills:
    • Conduct patient contacts where the student is in the doctor's role, e.g., ward rounds on selected patients, discharge conversation with epikrise, outpatient control, birth, examination, or orientation before elective section or conversation before planned gynaecological operation
    • Conduct patient contacts on newly referred patients where the student is in the doctor's role, e.g., bleeding in early pregnancy, new pregnancy, bleeding disorders, induced abortion, sterilization, incontinence, ovarian cyst, prolapse, vaginal infection, or cell changes
  • Competencies:
    • Perform the most common procedures related to the gynaecological examination, such as smear and sampling
    • Inform and convey messages about serious gynaecological/obstetric conditions and prognosis

Course Information

• Language: Danish
• Course code: SMEA15064U
• Point: 2.5 ECTS
• Level:
  • Candidate
• Duration: 1 semester
• Placement: Autumn and Spring
• Schedule group:
  • See Syllabus

Study Board

• Study Board for Medicine and the Health Science Candidate Program

Offering Institute

• Department of Clinical Medicine

Offering Faculty

• Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Course Responsible

• Betina Ristorp Andersen
  • Main course responsible
• Anne Marie Skaarup
  • CAMES, communication
• Farzana Shaheen Khan
  • CAMES, gynaecological examination

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