Unified Guidelines (for internal medicine departments 1-4) to pulmonology practical classes for 4 th course foreign students by educational discipline “Internal medicine, including endocrinology” in English. Guidelines for the topic: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Abstract

1. The purpose of the lesson: To teach students to collect complaints, personal history, history of disease and perform a physical examination of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). To acquaint students with the methods of investigations used for the diagnosis of COPD, the indications for implementation, their diagnostic value and results’ interpretation. To teach students to establish and formulate a diagnosis COPD as well as to provide a differential diagnosis. To teach students to make an algorithm for the treatment of a particular patient with COPD.