Teaching code

4S001921

Credits

10

Coordinator

Mauro Zamboni

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know the basics of the clinical reasoning and will be able to apply the correct methodology to approach the patient. He/she will be able to perform a clinical interview and to establish an effective patient-physician relationship. He/she will be able to understand and interpret the major symptoms and signs in medicine.

Program

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MM: SEMEIOTICA MEDICA
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at the end of the course, the student must be able to: • set the most appropriate attitude and language in relation to the environmental conditions (outpatient clinic, ward, etc.) and to the patient's conditionto obtain a precise medical history and physical examination; • collect accurately the medical history, quoting any medical records and listing the different symptoms, correlating them with pathophysiologic criteria. • critically evaluate the significance of symptoms, clinical signs and laboratory and instrumental data; • fill inthe clinical record in its various sections and update, using the appropiatesemeiological terminology; • start applying the logical tools of clinical reasoning; • perform a clinical interview focused on the complete collection of the patient's symptoms; • collect physiological or pathological signs concerning different anatomical systems In particular: - General Physical Examination - Head and Neck - Thorax-Respiratory System - Cardiovascular system - Breast - Abdomen - Uro-genitalapparatus - Locomotory apparatus - Nervous system - Hematopoietic organs - Assessment of nutritional status - Assessment of physical performance - Pain, fever
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MM: DIDATTICA PRATICA DI SEMEIOTICA MEDICA
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at the end of the course, the student must be able to: • set the most appropriate attitude and language in relation to the environmental conditions (outpatient clinic, ward, etc.) and to the patient's conditionto obtain a precise medical history and physical examination; • collect accurately the medical history, quoting any medical records and listing the different symptoms, correlating them with pathophysiologic criteria. • critically evaluate the significance of symptoms, clinical signs and laboratory and instrumental data; • fill inthe clinical record in its various sections and update, using the appropiatesemeiological terminology; • start applying the logical tools of clinical reasoning; • perform a clinical interview focused on the complete collection of the patient's symptoms; • collect physiological or pathological signs concerning different anatomical systems In particular: - General Physical Examination - Head and Neck - Thorax-Respiratory System - Cardiovascular system - Breast - Abdomen - Uro-genitalapparatus - Locomotory apparatus - Nervous system - Hematopoietic organs - Assessment of nutritional status - Assessment of physical performance - Pain, fever
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MM: SEMEIOTICA CHIRURGICA
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Surgical clinical evaluation of head and neck, torax and abdome

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Multiple choice written test. Bedside evaluation.Oral examination focused on critical evaluation of problem-oriented medical history.