Critical Care Medicine

Program Description:

Critical Care Medicine course is a multidisciplinary program, divided from Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine.

Students’ activities are diagnosis, care and treatment of a wide range of clinical problems in patients with severe life-threatening failures in their one or more organs.

Students are also responsible for ensuring, maintaining and improving the health of acute patients with multi-organ dysfunction during hospitalization, discharge or transfer or follow-up in the clinic with all-round care, support and management.

Objectives:

Expected Outcomes:  

Students of this course are expected to be able to:

• Establish effective and appropriate professional communication with the patient, accompanying patients, health team members and health officials to solve the problem of the patient or the community.
• Diagnose the disease by taking the description of the condition, performing clinical and paraclinical examinations and evaluations.
• Choose appropriate preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and care approaches and methods for patients and use them with sufficient mastery and skill to solve the patient's problem.
• Take sufficient ability in the education of different categories, including patients and their companions, the general society and the university community in the field of related specialization.

• Have constructive cooperation and interaction in the country's research system.
• Have constructive interaction with experts of different fields and courses.
• Play an effective role in improving the health status of the society by proposing or using different strategies.
• Consider issues related to professional ethics in all actions.
• Use scientific prioritization methods for patient acceptance.
• Have scientific and practical skills in diagnosing and treating life-threatening injuries and disorders of patients in the ICU.

• Establish appropriate and effective professional communication with patients and their companions and colleagues.
• Diagnose the disease or problem in patients in critical conditions, perform all treatment and care measures for them with control.
• Provide the necessary psychological support for patients, families and health team members during diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
• Considering the economy of treatment, perform diagnostic tests and therapeutic measures for the patient.
• Be able to learn the concepts of special care in different medical categories and related professions.
• Cooperate with multi-specialty groups and have the ability to consult with other colleagues.
• Be responsible for group leadership and management in medical, educational and research responsibilities.
• Defend and support the rights of patients and their families in special circumstances.
• Design and implement appropriate and applied research in the field of special care medicine and, if appropriate, take a step towards the production of science in the field of special care by setting up research centers.
• Observe professional ethics in all their actions, especially aggressive actions.
• Be diligent in learning new methods of monitoring and treating patients and updating your theoretical and practical knowledge.