Clinical Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine

Main areas of research:

1. Early diagnosis of arthritis

2. Use of ultrasound methods in the diagnosis and imaging of arthritis

3. Issues in the pathogenesis of Sjögren's syndrome, the relationship of immune disorders to the clinical picture of the disease and response to treatment

4. Analysis of immunological disorders, pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus

5. Assessment of immunological disorders in systemic connective tissue diseases

6. Analysis of the impact of infection on immune system stimulation and the aetiopathogenesis of rheumatic diseases

7. Analysis of the molecular basis of the response to synthetic and biological disease-modifying drugs

8. Assessment of biomarkers of disease risk and response to treatment in rheumatic diseases

9. Microcirculatory disorders in the context of organ involvement in systemic scleroderma

10. Role of autoantibodies in vasculitis- monitoring the course of the disease, diagnostic and therapeutic management.

Didactic classes:

4th year, Faculty of Medicine, lectures – Internal Medicine

6th year, Faculty of Medicine, clinical classes, seminars - Internal Medicine - Rheumatology (classes conducted in Polish and for students of the English Division)

2nd year, Faculty of Pharmacy, major: Dietetics – Nutrition in bone and joint diseases

2nd year, Faculty of Health Sciences, major: Physiotherapy - Clinical basis of physiotherapy in rheumatology

Assistant Professor for Didactics
Renata Sokolik, MD, PhD
tel. 71/784 33 20
e-mail: renata.sokolik@umw.edu.pl

Postgraduate education

Specialisation courses for doctors specialising in rheumatology:

Outline of rheumatology – division of rheumatic diseases, epidemiology, main disease groups, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment.

Inflammatory spondyloarthropathies and the relationship of infection to arthritis: a) reactive arthritis and inflammatory spondyloarthropathies, b) infectious diseases versus rheumatic diseases.

Joint diseases caused by crystals and laboratory diagnosis of joint fluid.

Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic diseases with elements of clinical genetics: a) outline of clinical genetics, b) advances in the diagnosis and treatment of some rheumatic diseases.

Courses in ultrasonography in musculoskeletal disorders and courses in capillaroscopy.

Scientific Club – Student Scientific Club at the Clinical Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine
Academic advisor: Magdalena Szmyrka, MD, PhD
tel. 71/784 33 20
e-mail: magdalena.szmyrka@umw.edu.pl