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Syllabus - TRANSLATORS COURSE.docx  

 

Week 2 - Class One (February 24th)

 

Class One - Orientation/Introductions, Topic " Emergency Medicine- Introduction"

 

The Emergency Room in the United States -- Trauma and who pays for it, a broken system of care

 

Emergency Room Costs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rkV5HOoGY

 

 

Urgent Care versus Emergency Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPHyjofuEMU

 

Urgent Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3mu18b-tE

 

 

Unpaid medical claims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ngVW15QhU

 

Levels of Care

 

1. Primary Care -- the doctor's office, walk-ins, referral out

 

2. Urgent Care clinics -- Doc in a Box, pharmacy clinics, types of providers -->typically physician assistants and nurse practitioners

 

3. Emergency rooms -- Trauma, fast track urgent care, Obstetrical care

 

Transfer to a higher level -- by POV, ground, aircraft (rotary vs fixed wing), EMTALA (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305897/ )

 

EMTALA -- Laws providing for guaranteed nondiscriminatory access to medical care within the United States

 

Payment for services -- http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/Documents/ManCriteria_06_EmergPreg.htm

 

The cost of delivery in the USA  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/health/american-way-of-birth-costliest-in-the-world.html?pagewanted=all

 

Birth Tourism http://cis.org/node/2802

 

http://www.viveusa.mx/articulo/2014/12/18/educacion/beneficios-y-problemas-de-tener-un-hijo-en-eu

 

Week 4 - Class Two (March 10th)

 

Cardiology - Heart Disease, Hypertension, and advice about Lifestyle Changes

 

Basic Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ14XjOQoFY

 

 

Public Health Education on Diet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCqfZ15EzdI

 

Changes on Okinawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8teAABsnTmM

 

Cost Comparison for By-pass surgery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiJ5ciM09ts

 

The fast food nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUbvOwwfWM

 

High fructose corn syrup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a4Z7W5x1pY

 

Sugar and heart disease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFX34LoSYg4

 

 

The Art of Persuasion

 

Public manipulation and propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OrT-8gXMs

 

Group Psychology and Analysis of the ego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmAoaSesaE

 

Materialism and illness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZxHCCnxBA

 

 

Week 5 - Class Three (March 17th)

 

Pulmonary Disease

 

Bioterrorism in the United States - the case of Anthrax

 

Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJGmTUdx7c 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/risk/index.html

 

http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/anthrax/Pages/index.aspx 

 

Post 911 Inhaled anthrax cases in Florida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idVGFYyzaMU

 

Post 911 cutaneous anthrax cases in New Jersey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b7Febc9k1c

 

Suspected microbiologist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSmSfv1AldE

 

Circumstancial evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4lnEABJuHU

 

 

 

Resistant Tuberculosis in the Ukraine - What we Know

 

General TB pathogenesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9112brXCOVc 

 

Prisoners in the east https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfzwdYtRBU

 

Drug resistant TB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INdBNgOc5ls

 

EU MDR-TB http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx?Instance=GeneralAtlas

 

WHO data - Hungary http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/310049/TB-surveillance-report-2016-Hungary.pdf

 

WHO data - Ukraine http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/310101/TB-surveillance-report-2016-Ukraine.pdf?ua=1

 

WHO data - Romania http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/310093/TB-surveillance-report-2016-Romania.pdf?ua=1

 

 
Legionella in the EU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4d_apLtl0 

 

Legionella cases in Europe http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/legionnaires_disease/surveillance/Pages/annual-epidemiological-report-2016.aspx

 

 

Asthma in the Young Child - What are the risk factors

 

Asthma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozyruyITxKg

 

Hygeine Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C8XeRldZ00

 

 

In the dirt - Valley Fever in the Southwest United States

 

Dust storm Phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W4Cx44XKZ4 

 

Man on vacation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npk_oCHiql4 

 

Coccidiodomycosis in California and Arizona  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvNnZnGg4qE

 

Terms Pulmonary.docx

 

 

Week 6 - Class Four (March 24th)

 

Tropical Medicine

 

Pre-travel planning, vaccinations, and protective measures

 

Introduction (NEJM) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gKalfwYNMg

 

New England Journal Review Article (July 2016) - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1508815

 

Travelers' Health - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/list

 

General Recommendations for vaccinations and immunoprohylaxis - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2016/the-pre-travel-consultation/general-recommendations-for-vaccination-immunoprophylaxis

 

Center for Disease Control Recommendations for travel to Hungary - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/hungary

 

Personal Protection - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/pack-smart

 

 

 

Leptospirosis -

 

Leptospirosis in wild pigs in Texas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJCNhKyME4

 

Magyarorszag Szolnok - http://www.szolnoktv.hu/hirek/?article_hid=29494

 

CDC Leptospirosis - https://www.cdc.gov/leptospirosis/

 

Leptospirosis in the EU - http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/leptospirosis/Pages/Epidemiological-data.aspx

 

Flooding associated disease outbreak in Croatia in 2014 - http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/floods-bosnia-croatia-serbia-rapid-risk-assessment-june-2014.pdf

 

 

 

 

Arbovirus - West Nile

 

West Nile in Texas 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_xFj3ofYYc

 

About West Nile Virus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW1kn-TIA6s

 

West Nile in Horses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEskjv_GENQ  Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQJ3nxFd6c

 

CDC West Nile - https://www.cdc.gov/westnile/

 

West Nile in the EU - http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/west_nile_fever/Pages/Annual-epidemiological-report-2016.aspx

 

 

 

Arbovirus - Tick Borne Encephalitis

 

Review of TBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPTghwxiuXU

 

Tick Borne Encephalitis in Czech Republic (Vaccine Recommendation 2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZANEJsZxdVc

 

European CDC TBE - http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/emerging_and_vector-borne_diseases/tick_borne_diseases/tick_borne_encephalitis/basic_facts/Pages/factsheet-health-professionals.aspx

 

Powassan TBE in the USA - https://www.cdc.gov/powassan/

 

TBE in Hungary - http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/emerging_and_vector-borne_diseases/tick_borne_diseases/tick_borne_encephalitis/country-profiles/Pages/TBE-Hungary.aspx

 

 

 

Leishmaniasis -

 

Leishmaniasis in Latin America - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRtx2N2YR2k

 

CDC Leishmaniasis - https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/leishmaniasis/epi.html

 

European CDC - http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/leishmaniasis/Pages/factsheet_health_professionals.aspx

 

TNF Alpha Antagonist Therapy and Leishmaniasis - http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20542

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approach to fever in a returning traveler - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1508435

 

 

Class Five  ( April 7th) - Geriatrics [see Translator 1st year for information]

 

Class Six (April 21st) - Mental Health [see Translator 1st year for information]

 

Class Seven (April 28th) - Dermatology

 

Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI4E9JDs2Tw

 

 

Tropical Dermatology - Leprosy

 

Clinical Skin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i8_KbF3JLA

 

History and Pathogenesis of Leprosy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2239329/

 

Leprosy in the Americas - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1010536#t=articleTop

 

Leprosy in the EU -

 

Last Leper Colony in Europe - http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-12759393/inside-europes-last-leprosy-colony

 

Leprosy in Medieval Europe - https://www.ft.com/content/df89592e-d87a-11e2-b4a4-00144feab7de

 

Leprosy in Eastern Hungary in Medieval Times - http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/49646/1/Donoghue_Czori%20et%20al%2009.pdf

 

 

Travelers in the Tropics

 

Most Common Skin and Soft Tissue Infections - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2016/post-travel-evaluation/skin-soft-tissue-infections-in-returned-travelers

 

Cutaneous Larva Migrans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x2qrCeOzrI

 

 

 

Medication Reaction

 

Stevens Johnson Syndrome (Mayo Clinic) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGUL1keoaFQ

 

Stevens Johnson Syndrome (New Zealand Dermnet) - http://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/stevens-johnson-syndrome-toxic-epidermal-necrolysis/

 

Derm photos SJS - http://sjsupport.org/?p=753

 

Exanthamateous Skin Eruptions (NEJM) - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcp1104080

 

 

Autoimmune Skin Manifestations

 

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus NEJM review - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1100359

 

Video on signs/symptoms/skin related - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ2mqOC9cok 

 

House - Lupus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueW1i9kQao