The course Emergency Medical Conditions II is a mandatory course in the sixth year of the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Medicine in English and consists of 129 hours of exercises (7 ECTS). The course is held in the Emergency department of CHC Rijeka. 

The aim and expected result of the course is to provide the student with the opportunity to become thoroughly familiarized with a patient who requires urgent surgical therapy. Continuing the knowledge previously acquired in other clinical professions, the student must clearly and constructively recognize the disease and the possibility of its surgical treatment. During the course, the student would become familiar with diagnostics, clinical condition of the patient and emergency surgical therapy within the framework of general surgery and surgical subspecialties. 

After completing the course, the student, using previous and newly acquired knowledge in surgery, will be able to approach the patient, recognize his illness and offer in practice the best diagnostic tools and type of therapy (surgical, medicinal, combined). 

The student will be able to recognize a surgical emergency, and provide emergency care and adequate triage quickly; in complicated rare cases, refer the patient to the appropriate subspecialist and cooperate with him in a qualified manner. These competencies include theoretical knowledge about the clinical picture, indications, contraindications, surgical approaches, possible intraoperative and postoperative complications; insight into diagnosis and treatment of injuries; performing primary wound treatment, admission of emergency surgical patients, assessment of burned and polytraumatized patients. As part of all newly acquired knowledge from the course, the student will be trained to recognize the most common emergencies that fall within the scope of maxillofacial surgery, otorhinolaryngology and ophthalmology. They will be able to see and recognize head, face and neck trauma, as part of the treatment of a polytraumatized patient, how viscerocranium and oral cavity injuries are treated. They will be able to recognize the seriousness of inflammatory conditions of the mouth, neck and face. Practical knowledge from this subject will build on all acquired theoretical and practical knowledge from pre-clinical and clinical subjects. 

Classes are conducted in the form of exercises. The estimated duration of classes is during the entire academic year in the form of 12-hour shifts. During the exercises, the teacher demonstrates and supervises the active participation of the students in performing the exercises. Teachers discuss with students the specifics of performing a particular exercise. By completing all teaching activities, attending on-call duty, the student earns 7 ECTS points.