Teaching code

4S01156

Credits

7

Coordinator

Salvatore Monaco

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

The course of Neurology is dedicate to tech the student to:
1. be able to use the method of clinical analysis to propose a diagnosis;
2. learn the neurological semeiotics, evaluate signs and symptoms of disease on the framework of pathophysiology;
3. evaluate the ways of disease onset, the clinical course, anche the potential associated disorders, to identify the conceivable causes and pathogenetic mechanism;
4. select the laboratory investigations useful to define the diagnosis;
5. learn about pharmacological treatments, their duration, follow-up and side effects.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Basic knowledge in neuroanatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pathological anatomy, neuroradiology, neurophysiopathology.

Bibliography

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

- The assessment purposes aim to determine the student's knowledge about the topics included in the syllabus, the analytical and practical skills, the language accuracy;
- The assessments contents concern the acquisition of the practical teaching topics and aim to verify the knowledge of the main illnesses and neurological syndromes specified during the lectures;
- The assessment method is oral;
- The evaluation of the final score will be assigned on a total of thirty points, based on the weighted average of the marks given in the oral assessments concerning neurology topics (max 24/30), neurosurgery and neuro rehabilitation (max 6/30). As regards the practical teaching examination, the student will receive a positive or a negative mark. The negative mark doesn't preclude the possibility to continue the examination, however it will affect negatively the evaluation.