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INTERNAL MEDICINE 5/8

WL, academic year 2026/2027; 5th study year

Semester  IX (winter) 2026/2027:

Initials of Professors:

Dr n. med. Wojciech Matuszewski (WM)

Clinical Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases,

Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny Żołnierska 18 Street

seminar groups –  2  bedside teaching groups – 5

Lectures: (2h)   all Students

Seminars: 2 groups (3h)

with Dr n. med. Wojciech Matuszewski

seminar room no. 3, Provincial Specialist Hospital (WSS w Olsztynie)

Gr 1 (9:45-12:00 3h):  19.11.2026

Gr 2 (9:45-12:00 3h): 28.10.2026

Classes 5 groups (25h)  8:30-12.15 (5h)

Clinical Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases,

Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny Żołnierska 18 Street

Rotation plan between departments bedside teaching:

Seminars (3h):

1. Acute and chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. (winter)

Topics of Bedside teaching

Diabetology and endocrinology 25h

Winter:

1. Diabetes – diagnosis; clinical features of DM.
2. Treatment of diabetes: DM1, DM2, gestational diabetes and other types.
3. Diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar state, lactic acidosis.
4. Hypoglycemia - clinical implications and treatment.
5. Diabetes treatment - pharmacological and non-pharmacological.
6. Education of a patient with diabetes (information on diabetes, nutritional treatment, exercise, self-control).
7. Oral drugs used in diabetes: biguanide and, sulphonylurea derivates, α-glucosidase inhibitors, DPP-4 inhibitors; agonists of GLP-1 receptor. 
8. Metabolic assessment of patient with diabetes – criteria of metabolic control. Assessment of nutritional treatment and physical activity. Planning therapy in diabetic patients.
9. Treatment  with insulin.
10. Diabetic patient with concomitant diseases. Chronic complications of diabetes: retinopathy, nephropathy, polyneuropathy, cardiovascular complications.
11. Acute complications of diabetes: hypoglycemia, ketoacidosis and non-ketone hyperosmolar hyperglycemia.

Literature:

1. Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine. Siegenthaler W., Thieme - 2011
2. Clinical medicine.  Kumar & Clarks  Saunders – Elsevier,  2009
3. Davidson’s Principles & Practice of Medicine. Boone N.A., Colledge N.R – Editors, Churchill Livingstone – Elsevier, 2010
4. Lee Goldman, MD and Andrew I. Schafer, MD - Goldman's Cecil Medicine. Saunders 2012