MEDICAL CLINIC AND GERIATRICS
cod. 1002944

Academic year 2015/16
6° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Medicina interna (MED/09)
Field
Tirocini formativi e di orientamento
Type of training activity
More
168 hours
of face-to-face activities
14 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

Knowledge about the comprehensive management of patients affected by the more common pathologies of internal medicine. At the end of the teaching course the student will be able:
to delineate a diagnostic work plan for any single patient;
to formulate a differential diagnosis on the basis of the clinical examination and the evaluation of laboratory and instrumental exams;
to delineate a therapeutic approach (both pharmacologic and not) to the acute phase of the disease and eventually for its chronic phase;
to be able to know and apply preventive treatments.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

In the ward, at the patient's bed, we will try to directly increase the practical knowledge of epidemiological, physiopathological, clinical and therapeutical aspects of internal medicine diseases in complex patients affected by cardiological, pneumological, GE, rheumatological, nephrological diseases.

Full programme

As part of the course of Clinica Medica specific topics will consider: Osteoporosis diagnosis and therapy, Osteomalacia, Iper PTH 1°, Hypercalcemic syndromes, Hypocalcemia, Paget disease of bone, Venous thrombosis, Polmonary embolism, LES, AR.

Bibliography

1) Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, XVIII° ed. Mc Grow Hill ed.
2) Rugarli, Medicina Interna sistematica VI° ed, elsevier ed.

Teaching methods

All classes will start from the description of a real patient, and then, during the description of the different aspects of the disease, the real clinical aspect of single patients will be taken into consideration.
Particular attention will be focused on professional training and practical therapeutical aspect .

Assessment methods and criteria

An oral test will start from the description of a specific patient, and the student will discuss in a critical fashion the different diagnostic options in order to reach a specific diagnosis, that will be followed by the definition of a therapeutical approach.
This test will allow to evaluate the knowledge as well as the clinical skill of the student

Other information

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