third year of the Second Cycle of Medical Studies (SCMS3)
Certificat 1: Pediatric Diseases
Module 1: Pediatrics (36 hours):
- Fever in children
- Visceral leishmaniasis
- Acute post-infectious glomerulonephritis
- Nephrotic syndromes in children
- Convulsions and epilepsies in children
- Anemias in children
- Purulent meningitis in children/Clear cerebrospinal fluid meningitis/Acute encephalitis
- Protein-energy malnutrition
- Rickets
- Acute abdominal pain
- Vomiting in infants
- Acute respiratory infections
- Childhood asthma
- Recurrent bronchopneumopathies
- Urinary tract infection
- Arterial hypertension
Module 2:
Pediatric Surgery (12 hours):
- Abdominopelvic masses
- Malformative uropathies
- Neonatal obstruction
- Hirschsprung’s disease
- Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- Gastroesophageal reflux
- Acute appendicitis in children
- Acute intestinal intussusception
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Peritoneal-vaginal canal pathology
- Esophageal atresia
- Anorectal malformations
Imaging (4 hours)
Module 3: Neonatology (14 hours):
- Respiratory distress in newborns
- Neonatal infections
- Embryofetopathies
- Newborns of ill mothers
- Life-threatening conditions in newborns
Pathological Genetics (10 hours)
Module 3: Practical Hospital Training – EPH (40 hours)
Certificat 2: Emergency Medicine - Internal Medicine - Geriatrics
Module 1: Emergency Medicine (20 hours)
- Malaise in the emergency department
- Agitation in the emergency department
- Triage and risk stratification in the emergency department
- Disaster medicine and mass casualty incidents
- Management of anticoagulant overdose in the emergency department
- Hypertension in the emergency department
- Neurological emergencies
- Cardiac arrest management
- Approach to chest pain diagnosis
- Acute dyspnea in the emergency department
- Anaphylaxis in the emergency department
Module 2:
Internal Medicine (14 hours)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Sjögren’s syndrome
- Primary inflammatory myopathies
- Systemic sclerosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Introduction to vasculitis
- Giant cell arteritis
- Takayasu’s arteritis
- Behçet’s disease
- Corticosteroid therapy and immunosuppressants
- Erythema nodosum
- Raynaud’s phenomenon
- Amyloidosis
- Vasculitic purpura
- Venous thromboembolic disease
Geriatrics (8 hours)
- Human aging
- Physiology of aging
- Elderly patients with illness
- Falls in the elderly
- Autonomy and dependence in the elderly
- Urinary and fecal incontinence in the elderly
- Immobilization syndrome
- End-of-life care
Pathological Immunology (6 hours) Pathological Anatomy (2 hours)
Module 3: Practical Hospital Training – EPH (40 hours)
Certificat 3: Social and Forensic Medicine
Module 1: Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Sociology of Health (26 hours)
- Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases
- Epidemiology and prevention of smoking
- Vaccination
- Measurement of risk in epidemiology / Different types of epidemiological studies
- Experimental studies / Descriptive studies
- Observational etiological studies: case-control design
- Observational etiological studies: cohort design
- Biases in epidemiology
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Introduction to quality and patient safety
- Health education
- Epidemiology of cancer
- Health economics
- Health planning
- National perinatal program
- National rabies program
- Integrated management of mother and child (IMCI)
- Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS
- Healthcare system / healthcare organization in Tunisia
- Epidemiological surveillance
Module 2: Occupational and Environmental Medicine (26 hours)
- Prevention of occupational risks (2 hours)
- Compensation for occupational risks (2 hours)
- Fitness for work (1 hour)
- Occupational accidents (1 hour)
- Occupational silicosis (1 hour)
- Asbestos-related diseases (1 hour)
- Diagnostic approach to occupational rhinitis and asthma (2 hours)
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (1 hour)
- Occupational dermatoses (2 hours)
- Musculoskeletal disorders (2 hours)
- Occupational cancers (1 hour)
- Noise and occupational hearing loss (2 hours)
- Occupational hematopathies (1 hour)
- Organic solvents (1 hour)
- Benzene (1 hour)
- Lead poisoning (1 hour)
- Biological risks in healthcare settings (2 hours)
- Ionizing radiation (1 hour)
- Physical workload (1 hour)
- Mental workload (1 hour)
- Work in hyperbaric environments (1 hour)
Guided teaching sessions
- Approach to paroxysmal dyspnea
- Approach to exertional dyspnea
- Approach to musculoskeletal disorders
- Approach to contact dermatitis
Module 3: Forensic Medicine (12 hours)
- Physician facing death
- Physician facing sexual assaults
- Physician facing mechanical asphyxia
- Physician facing trauma
- Physician facing acute intoxications
- Medico-legal aspects of drug addiction
- Judicial organization in Tunisia
- Medical act
- Medical confidentiality
- Emergency medical assistance
- Medical liability
- Legal and ethical aspects of organ transplantation
- Medical documents
- Patient rights
- Code of medical ethics
- Medical professional association
- Medico-legal aspects related to the family
- Child abuse (child rights)
- Humanitarian law
Health Law and Ethics (24 hours)
Module 4: Practical Hospital Training – EPH (40 hours)
Certificat 3 : Médecine sociale et légale
Module 1: Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Sociology of Health (26 hours)
- Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases
- Epidemiology and prevention of smoking
- Vaccination
- Measurement of risk in epidemiology / Different types of epidemiological studies
- Experimental studies / Descriptive studies
- Observational etiological studies: case-control design
- Observational etiological studies: cohort design
- Biases in epidemiology
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Introduction to quality and patient safety
- Health education
- Epidemiology of cancer
- Health economics
- Health planning
- National perinatal program
- National rabies program
- Integrated management of mother and child (IMCI)
- Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS
- Healthcare system / healthcare organization in Tunisia
- Epidemiological surveillance
Module 2: Occupational and Environmental Medicine (26 hours)
- Prevention of occupational risks (2 hours)
- Compensation for occupational risks (2 hours)
- Fitness for work (1 hour)
- Occupational accidents (1 hour)
- Occupational silicosis (1 hour)
- Asbestos-related diseases (1 hour)
- Diagnostic approach to occupational rhinitis and asthma (2 hours)
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (1 hour)
- Occupational dermatoses (2 hours)
- Musculoskeletal disorders (2 hours)
- Occupational cancers (1 hour)
- Noise and occupational hearing loss (2 hours)
- Occupational hematopathies (1 hour)
- Organic solvents (1 hour)
- Benzene (1 hour)
- Lead poisoning (1 hour)
- Biological risks in healthcare settings (2 hours)
- Ionizing radiation (1 hour)
- Physical workload (1 hour)
- Mental workload (1 hour)
- Work in hyperbaric environments (1 hour)
Guided teaching sessions
- Approach to paroxysmal dyspnea
- Approach to exertional dyspnea
- Approach to musculoskeletal disorders
- Approach to contact dermatitis
Module 3: Forensic Medicine (12 hours)
- Physician facing death
- Physician facing sexual assaults
- Physician facing mechanical asphyxia
- Physician facing trauma
- Physician facing acute intoxications
- Medico-legal aspects of drug addiction
- Judicial organization in Tunisia
- Medical act
- Medical confidentiality
- Emergency medical assistance
- Medical liability
- Legal and ethical aspects of organ transplantation
- Medical documents
- Patient rights
- Code of medical ethics
- Medical professional association
- Medico-legal aspects related to the family
- Child abuse (child rights)
- Humanitarian law
Health Law and Ethics (24 hours)
Module 4: Practical Hospital Training – EPH (40 hours)
Certificate 4: Mental Health
Module 1: Psychiatry (20 hours)
- Anxiety disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Suicide
- Bipolar disorders
- Depressive states
- Adaptation disorders
- Psychoses
- Obsessive-compulsive disorders
- Addictive disorders
- Alcoholism
- Psychotropic drugs
- Acute delusional states
- Hysteria
- Psychiatric disorders in the elderly
- Mental confusion
- Psychiatric emergencies
- Psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and postpartum period
- Psychotherapies
Pharmacology (6 hours)
- Neuroleptics
- Mood stabilizers
- Anxiolytics
- Antidepressants
- Hypnotics
Module 2: Psychopathology (4 hours)
- Psychological reactions to illness and surgery
- Physician-patient relationship
- Communicating with seriously ill patients
- Defense mechanisms
- Medical prescription
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (10 hours)
- Introductory course
- Emotional disorders in children and adolescents
- Sleep disorders
- Eating disorders
- Introduction to adolescent psychopathology
- Language disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Toilet training and its disorders
- Motor behavior disorders
Sexology (8 hours)
- Male sexual dysfunctions
- Female sexual dysfunctions
- Family therapies
- Couple therapy
- Perversions
Module 3: Practical Hospital Training – EPH (40 hours)
Certificate 5: Clinical and Therapeutic Synthesis
Module 1: Clinical Synthesis (30 hours):
- Arterial hypertension
- Acute abdominal pain
- Management of dysphagia
- Management of vomiting
- Adult jaundice
- Approach to elevated transaminases
- Metrorrhagia
- Anemias
- Hypercalcemia
- Approach to prolonged fever
- Superficial lymphadenopathies: diagnostic orientation
- Vaccinations
- Edema
- Anuria
- Management of brief loss of consciousness
- Headaches
- Red eye
- Splenomegaly
- Drug interactions
- Management of hemoptysis
- Dyspnea
- Approach to an abdominal mass
- Pain
- Approach to joint pain
- Hematuria
Module 2: Therapeutic Synthesis (30 hours)
Certificate 6: Intensive Care Medicine
Module 1: Medical Resuscitation (20 hours)
- Severe septic states
- Cardiogenic shock
- Replacement fluids
- Coma
- Hyponatremia
- Status epilepticus
- Pulmonary edema
- Acute severe asthma
- Oxygen therapy
- Scorpion and viper envenomation
- Drowning
- Carbon monoxide, organophosphate, and psychotropic intoxications
- Severe acute respiratory infections: severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Module 2: Anesthesia – Resuscitation (20 hours)
- Anesthesia: basic principles of anesthesia pharmacology
- Management of closed thoracic trauma
- Management of severe acute burns
- Traumatic brain injury
- Polytrauma
- Hemorrhagic shock
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Diagnosis and management of brain death
- Principles of “Damage Control”
- Acute pancreatitis
Pharmacology (4 hours):
- Pharmacology of catecholamines
- Anesthetic drugs
Anglais Médical (20H)