Program Overview

Syllabus for Treatment and evaluation, commissioned training

Introduction

The course plan for Treatment and Evaluation, contract education, is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the treatment and evaluation of dementia.

Base data

• Course code: 9H1029
• Name of the course: Treatment and evaluation, assignment training
• Higher education credits: 5
• Form of education: Assignment education (university credits)
• Main field: Medicine
• Level: OFF - Advanced level
• Grade scale: Fail (U) or pass (G)
• Department responsible for the course: Department of Neurobiology, Value Science and Society
• Decision-making body: The Board of Education
• Date of determination:
• Revised by: The Board of Education
• The course plan is valid from: Winter term 2012

Special authorization

• At least 120 credits within which a doctor's degree must be included.
• In addition, knowledge of English equivalent to English B is required.

Mċl

The student should demonstrate an approach that ensures person-centered care, taking into account the patient's reduced autonomy and great need to have their interests represented. After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Integrate different treatment measures that are relevant and should be implemented to improve the quality of life for people with dementia.
• Choose and evaluate the use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for dementia, and consider the evidence available for current treatment strategies for dementia.
• Evaluate people with dementia throughout the disease process with the help of the dementia team's various resources.

Contains

The course covers:

• Pharmacological treatment of cognitive symptoms in Alzheimer's disease
• Long-term treatment and follow-up of drug treatment
• Alzheimer's patient who becomes ill and then deteriorates
• Treatment of other dementia conditions
• Health economic and ethical aspects of treatment

Forms of work

The course is conducted as distance education with a student-activating learning focus as a pedagogical model. Distance education is IT-based and characterized by independent and collaborative learning. The course includes individual study assignments, group work, virtual discussions and seminars, and lectures.

Examination

The examination forms are both formative, i.e., evaluation during the course, and summative, i.e., evaluation of the course content. The formative examination takes place through active participation in seminar presentations, both individual and group. To pass the assignments, the student must have actively participated in solving the assignments and in both written and oral presentation/discussion of these. The summative examination takes place through a reflective individual written report, based on in-depth study of selected areas of the course content and relevant literature, including critical discussion of possible application. The reports should also be presented orally. The reports should be presented and discussed in a seminar together with teachers and fellow students.

Other regulations

• Teaching language English.

Bibliography and other teaching aids

• Burns, Alistair S..; O'Brien, John; Ames, David, Dementia. , 3rd ed. : London : Hodder Arnold, 2005. - xxxi, 829 p., [12] p. of plates ISBN: 145.00, LIBRIS-ID: , *
• Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive diseases , Marcusson, Jan; Blennow, Kai; Skoog, Ingmar; Wallin, Anders; Röhl, Annika, 3., [reworked and ext.] ed. : Stockholm : Liber, 2011 - 292 pp. ISBN: 2-1, LIBRIS-ID: , * Additionally, current review articles are included.