Course description

Course lay-out

In this course the structure and function of the nervous system will be lectured. In a 'capita selecta' form frequently appearing neurologic and psychiatric diseases will be discussed. Furthermore the neuro-biologic background of these diseases will be elaborated upon as well as the general practitioner aspects.

 

Educational goals

At the end of this course the student has knowledge of and insight into:

• the anatomy and function of the nervous system
• several neurologic and psychiatric disorders, including neuro-biological aspects
• informatical aspects of neurologic and pshychiatric disorders

 

Involved departments

• Anesthesiology
• Clinical Informatics
• Dutch Institute for Brain Research
• GP Medicine
• Human Toxicology
• Neurology
• Pathology
• Physiology
• Psychiatry

 

Evaluation

Evaluation of the course and assignments

This course is given parallel with the artificial intelligence course. It was clearly noticeable that there was a link between the two courses. However this was not exploited by the coordinators. That was a missed opportunity. It was a medical course and I am very interested in medicine. Several specialisms have been discussed in this course; all these specialisms tried to link their specialism to Medical Informatics. Only a few succeeded.

 

The workload of this course was much higher than the artificial intelligence course. We had to study a lot of information. I liked the assignment of this course. We had to create a flowchart for a disease or disorder which could be used by physicians as a decision support tool. My group had to create a flowchart of diagnosing epilepsy and it was difficult to determine were to start, but we succeeded. The exam was very difficult. It might be easier when all the lectures were posted on Blackboard, this was not the case. Except for this problem, I liked the course and I had the opportunity to refresh my knowledge about the nervous system.