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DCM: Year Three

A final advanced year of clinical practice that explores and focuses on the management of major medical and surgical conditions across different specialities.

DCM 3101: Medicine-Infectious Diseases - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3101: Medicine-Infectious Diseases

Contact Hours: 75 Credit Units: 5

This module shall enable the learners acquire knowledge, attitude and skills to manage infectious medical conditions.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to:

  • Know the infectious diseases in internal medicine
  • Understand the pathophysiology of the diseases
  • Make diagnosis of the infectious disease conditions
  • Manage infectious disease conditions
  1. Stuart et al (2018). Davidson’s principles and practice of medicine, 23rd edition, Elsevier health sciences
  2. Fauci et al (2008). Harrison’s principles of internal medicine, 17th edition, McGraw Hill’s access medicine.
  3. Kumar and Clark (2008). Clinical medicine, 6th edition, Elsevier health sciences.
  4. Uganda Clinical Guidelines (2016)
  5. Muyinda Nathan (2010). Precise guide to management of common medical conditions
  6. Michael Swash and Michael Glynn (2007). Hutchison’s Clinical Methods-An integrated approach to clinical practice 22nd Edition.
  7. Charles D. Forbes and William F. Jackson (2003). Color Atlas and Text of Clinical Medicine 3rd Edition
DCM 3102: Paediatric – Neonatal Health - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3102: Paediatric – Neonatal Health

Contact Hours: 60 Credit Units: 4

This module unit covers important aspects of care for the new born baby, identification of signs of illness in a new born and management of the sick new born baby.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to:

  • Differentiate between a normal new born baby and an abnormal new born baby.
  • Identify signs and symptoms of illness in a new born baby.
  • Provide care for the normal new born baby.
  • Manage the sick new born baby.
  1. Nelson Neonatology-18th Edition
  2. Essential Paediatrics
  3. Nelson textbook of Paediatrics 21st Edition
  4. IMNCI-ICATT training guides
  5. MOH (2016). Uganda Clinical Guidelines
  6. WHO (2005). Pocket Book of Hospital care for children. Guidelines for the Management Of Common Illnesses With Limited Resources
  7. Child Health. A Manual for Medical and Health Workers in Health centers and Rural Hospitals (2005).
DCM 3103: Surgery Non-Traumatic Conditions - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3103: Surgery Non-Traumatic Conditions

Contact Hours: 60 Credit Units: 4

This module unit shall enable the learner to get knowledge and skills to manage surgical conditions.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to:

  • Examine surgical patients
  • Make a diagnosis
  • Perform minor surgical operations
  1. SRB’s Manual of Surgery 4th Edition by Jaypee Brothers (2013).
  2. Surgery. A Manual for rural health workers (2003) 2nd Edition by Peter Bewes
  3. Clinical surgery by Kumar and Clark (2001) 2nd Edition
  4. Primary Surgery (Volume two), by Maurice King and Peter Bewes (1987).
  5. Uganda Clinical Guide lines (2016).
DCM 3104: Obstetrics - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3104: Obstetrics

Duration: 75 hours Credit Units: [Not Specified]

This module will enable a learner to acquire the knowledge, attitude and skills to provide obstetric care to mothers and their newly born baby.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to provide quality obstetric care to mothers.

  1. Hiralal K. & Dutta DC (2013). DC Dutta’s Textbook of Obstetrics: 7th edition, JAYPEE Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd; New Delhi, London, Philadelphia, Panama.
  2. Cunningham, Leveno, Bloom, Hauth, Rouse, Spong (2010). Williams Obstetrics, 23rd edition: McGraw-Hill
  3. Gibbs, Ronald S.; Karlan, Beth Y.; Haney, Arthur F.; Nygaard, Ingrid E (2008). Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology, 10th Edition: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  4. Miller A.W.F & Hanretty K.P. (1998). Obstetrics Illustrated 5th Edition: Churchill Livingstone: London
  5. Obstetrics by ten teachers
  6. MOH (2016). Uganda Clinical Guidelines
  7. Myles Textbook for Midwives 7th Edition by Jayne Marshall and Maureen Raynor (2014).
DCM 3105: Health Service Management and Leadership - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3105: Health Service Management and Leadership

Contact Hours: 45 Credit Units: 3

This module aims at empowering clinical officer trainees with basic knowledge, positive attitude and skills to sufficiently manage health care resources in an efficient and effective manner. After completing this module, they should be able to use appropriate managerial interventions to enable them use generated health data in the day today decisions affecting Health care service delivery.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to:

  • Generate health and health related data in the day today activities that will be used for making Health care decisions on matters affecting the majority of the population in the community.
  • Manage the resources at various levels of Health service delivery in Uganda.

No specific references are listed for this course unit in the provided curriculum. Recommended reading materials will be provided by the course instructor.

Semester II

DCM 3201: Medicine – Non-Infectious Diseases - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3201: Medicine – Non-Infectious Diseases

Contact Hours: 75 Credit Units: 5

This module will help learners to acquire knowledge, attitude and skills to manage patients with non-infectious disease conditions.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to:

  • Identify the non-infectious diseases in internal medicine
  • Understand the pathophysiology of the different non-infectious diseases
  • Make diagnosis of the non-infectious disease conditions
  • Manage patients with non-infectious disease conditions
  1. Stuart et al (2018), Davidson’s principles and practice of medicine, 23rd edition, Elsevier health sciences
  2. Fauci et al (2008), Harrison’s principles of internal medicine, 17th edition, McGraw Hill’s access medicine.
  3. Kumar and Clark (2008), Clinical medicine, 6th edition, Elsevier health sciences.
  4. Jean etal (2017), Dermatology, 4th Edition, Elsevier health sciences.
DCM 3202: Paediatric – Child Health - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3202: Paediatric – Child Health

Contact Hours: 75 Credit Units: 5

This module covers important aspects of child growth, development and management of common illnesses in a child, with the overall goal of equipping the student with knowledge and skills to reduce child mortality significantly.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to:

  • Differentiate normal from abnormal growth and development in a child.
  • To manage common childhood illnesses.
  • To make a diagnosis of congenital abnormality in a child.
  • To be able to track a child’s immunization status and offer missing vaccines.
  • To be able to give first aid to children after home accidents.
  1. Nelson Neonatology-18th Edition
  2. Essential Paediatrics
  3. Nelson textbook of Paediatrics 21st Edition
  4. IMNCI-ICATT training guides
  5. MOH (2016). Uganda Clinical Guidelines
  6. WHO (2005). Pocket Book of Hospital care for children. Guidelines for the Management Of Common Illnesses With Limited Resources
  7. Child Health. A Manual for Medical and Health Workers in Health centers and Rural Hospitals (2005).
DCM 3203: Surgery-Traumatic Conditions - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3203: Surgery-Traumatic Conditions

Contact Hours: 75 Credit Units: 5

This module unit shall enable the learner to acquire knowledge and skill to manage traumatic surgical conditions.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to diagnose and treat traumatic surgical conditions.

  1. SRB’s Manual of Surgery 4th Edition by Jaypee Brothers (2013).
  2. Surgery. A Manual for rural health workers (2003) 2nd Edition by Peter Bewes
  3. Clinical surgery by Kumar and Clark (2001) 2nd Edition
  4. Primary Surgery (Volume two), by Maurice King and Peter Bewes (1987).
  5. Uganda Clinical Guide lines (2016).
DCM 3204: Gynaecology - Detailed Curriculum

DCM 3204: Gynaecology

Duration: 60 hours Credit units: 4

This module will enable a learner to acquire the knowledge, attitude and skills to provide of clinical relevance of Gynecological care to clients.

By the end of this module unit, the learner shall be able to provide quality gynaecological care to clients.

  1. MOH (2016). Uganda Clinical Guidelines
  2. WHO Family Planning Cornerstone (2011). Family Planning. A Global Handbook for providers
  3. Gynaecology by Ten Teachers 20th edition
  4. A.W.F. Miller and K.P Hanretty (1998). Obstetrics Illustrated 5th edition
  5. David McKay and Jane Norman (2000). Gynaecology Illustrated 4th edition
  6. Myles Textbook for Midwives 7th Edition by Jayne Marshall and Maureen Raynor (2014).
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