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Hisham Alsanawi, MD د. هشام بن عبدالعزيز الصنعاوي

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor and Orthopedic Consultant أستاذ مساعد وأستشاري العظام

كلية الطب
College of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics, level II
ملحق المادة الدراسية

Course Objectives

المقرر الدراسي

The 452 Orthopaedics and Traumatology course has the objective of getting the medical students familirized with common  musculoskeletal conditions and their basic methods of treatments. In addition, the course aims at graduating medical students  with the knowledge and skills to manage common and important musculoskeletal conditions irrespective of future specialty. This course has minimum level of competence in musculoskeletal conditions that  all medical students should master before graduating and practicing medicine. 

Main Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate the following:

  1. Essential knowledge required to diagnose and provide initial manage of common musculoskeletal conditions and to know when to immediately refer a patient with a condition that requires urgent specialist management.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge to specify the symptoms, signs and immediate complications; to outline the assessment and appropriate investigation and; to outline the immediate and long term management of patients with common and community related orthopedic conditions and musculoskeletal trauma.
  3. To take a relevant and a focused MSK history in the knowledge of the characteristics of the major conditions of: bone; joints; connective tissue; nerve tissue and; muscle tissue.
  4. To perform a focused physical examination of major joints (shoulder, hip, knee, foot and ankle, PN and spine)
  5. To order and to demonstrate an appropriate use and interpretation of appropriate investigations including: radiography, CT/MRI/bone scan, MSK U/S, serology, synovial fluid analysis, and EMG/NCS.
  6. The ability to perform a common non-surgical orthopaedic procedures like joint aspirations and ability to apply and remove a cast.