After successful completion of this modul, students shall be able to explain structure and function of the cardiovascular system and it’s interaction with the respiratory system. They shall know pathophysiologal and clinical aspects, diagnostics and therapy of the most important cardiovascular diseases as well as the respective preventive measures.

This lecture series provides a comprehensive overview of the most important aspects of clinical exercise testing for diagnosis and assessment of functional status in different patient populations, e.g. patients with pulmonary, cardiac or neuro-muscular disease, with obesity, young or old age. Also, special aspects in the context of training perscriptions in these populations will be discussed.

This module gives a broad overview of the differential diagnostic of diseases and shall assess the diagnostic skills of the medical students. For this purpose, the students will practice different situations to simulate upcoming requirements in daily clinical practice as realistic as possible.

Clinical cases are used to link specific symptoms to the most important differential diagnoses. Symptoms are related to the most relevant and common underlying causes of disease. Students use clinical reasoning to justify and explain the selection of the appropriate diagnostic procedure and investigation to achieve state of the art clinical diagnosis based on evidence (working diagnosis).