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Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e chirurgia - Enrollment from 2025/2026
Academic year:
Corsi elettivi 1° semestre From 10/8/18 To 12/21/18
years Modules TAF Teacher
Progress Test 1st year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 2nd year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Supplementary research and laboratory diagnostic informations on Autoimmunity D Silvia Sartoris (Coordinator)
Progress Test 3rd year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
2° 3° Access to essential medicines in developing countries D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 4th year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 5th year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Exercise testing and prescription for health D Federico Schena (Coordinator)
4° 5° Histopathological and molecular features of gastroenteric and bilio-pancreatic tumors D Claudio Luchini (Coordinator)
4° 5° Coagulation disorders. Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects D Francesca Pizzolo (Coordinator)
Oncologic Imaging D Mirko D'Onofrio (Coordinator)
Neurophysiological investigations for studying sleep and sleep-related disorders D Gaetano Cantalupo (Coordinator)
Progress Test 6th year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
5° 6° Medical and Surgical Hepatology D Veronica Paon (Coordinator)
5° 6° Research methodology basis and critical reading of a scientific article D Giuseppe Borzellino (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgical oncology of the gastrointestinal tract D Corrado Pedrazzani (Coordinator)
5° 6° Basic course ECG and interactive interpretation D Vincenzo Marafioti (Coordinator)
5° 6° Nutritional Epigenomics: a bridge between DNA and disease D Simonetta Friso (Coordinator)
5° 6° Training in family pediatrician setting D Giorgio Piacentini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Management of severe visceral trauma D Giuseppe Borzellino (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of the liver: from the preoperative optimization of the liver to the postoperative care D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Traditional and endovascular surgery of abdominal aortic aneurisms D Alberto Scuro (Coordinator)
5° 6° Literature search using PubMed D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
5° 6° Multiple Sclerosis and demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system: from diagnosis to therapy D Massimiliano Calabrese (Coordinator)
5° 6° Uncommon pancreatic neoplasms D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
5° 6° Extracorporeal life support D Alessio Rungatscher (Coordinator)
5° 6° Technologies in Surgery D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
5° 6° Sport's Traumatology D Eugenio Vecchini (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Clinical cases in endocrinology and metabolism D Enzo Bonora (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Abdominal wall surgery D Antonino Zago (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° “Role of the Medicine student in a cognitive laboratory for Nursing students” D Oliva Marognolli (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Physiology and pathophysiology of micturition D Maria Angela Cerruto (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Physiopathology of low back pain and degenerative spondiloarthritis D Marco Andrea Marino (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Autism Spectrum Disorders: clinic, etiology, research D Leonardo Zoccante (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Musculoskeletal Assessment D Luca Idolazzi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Pigmented cutaneous lesions and melanoma: clinical evaluation and differential diagnosis D Paolo Rosina (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Child development: a neurodevelopmental approach D Alessandro Simonati (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Technologies applied to type 1 diabetes mellitus: towards artificial pancreas D Maddalena Trombetta (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Stem cell transplantation: biological and clinical issues D Mauro Krampera (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Tubercolosis: epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, therapy and surveillaince D Michela Conti (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Traditional and laser treatment of chronic venous insufficiency D Alberto Scuro (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Immunophenotyping in normal hematopoiesis and in hematological diseases D Mauro Krampera (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical and social history of drugs D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Alcoholism D Rebecca Casari (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Heroin and cocaine. History, epidemiology, new scenarios, clinical approach, complications. Serts. D Rebecca Casari (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° The seminars of the School of Medicine and Surgery 2018-2019 D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Corsi elettivi 2° semestre From 2/18/19 To 5/31/19
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° Bioinformatics D Maria Romanelli (Coordinator)
2° 3° Human retroviruses: HIV and AIDS D Donato Zipeto (Coordinator)
2° 3° Emerging Viruses and zonosis D Donato Zipeto (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Psychological aspects of addiction D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Short history of pharmacology D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Dependence on legal drugs (benzodiazepines and pain killers) D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Doping and doping control D Aldo Eliano Polettini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Gambling D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Tabagism D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° role and management of therapeutic groups in medicine D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° History of surgery D Giovanni Paolo Pollini (Coordinator)
Clinical electrocardiography D Daniele Prati (Coordinator)
Surgical anatomy of head and neck D Daniele Marchioni (Coordinator)
Clinical approach to cancer patient D Michele Milella (Coordinator)
Diagnosis and therapy of male urinary incontinence D Salvatore Siracusano (Coordinator)
Clinical ultrasound D Mirko D'Onofrio (Coordinator)
4° 5° Off-label use of medicines in clinical practice D Laura Cuzzolin (Coordinator)
4° 5° Pancreatic neoplasms: clinic-pathologic features D Giuseppe Zamboni (Coordinator)
4° 5° Nodule of the thyroid: clinicopathologic correlations D Guido Martignoni (Coordinator)
5° 6° Advanced life support D Katia Donadello (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of pancreas and peryampullary area D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Neonatal surgery D Francesco Saverio Camoglio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of retroperitoneal tumors and GIST D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant diseases of biliary tree D Andrea Ruzzenente (Coordinator)
5° 6° Emergencies in the extra-hospital environment D Enrico Polati (Coordinator)
5° 6° Management of pain in reumathologic diseases D Davide Gatti (Coordinator)
5° 6° Pancreatic dilemma between inflammation and neoplasia D Antonio Amodio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Introduction to Robotic Surgery D Diego Dall'Alba (Coordinator)
5° 6° Literature search using PubMed D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
5° 6° Infection in ICU D Anna Maria Azzini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders D Stefano Tamburin (Coordinator)
5° 6° Physicians: their history, their stories D Luca Idolazzi (Coordinator)
5° 6° Experimental microsurgery D Alessio Rungatscher (Coordinator)
5° 6° PAEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS D Elena Manuela Samaila (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical senology D Giovanni Paolo Pollini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Minimally invasive (laparoscopic and robot-assisted) surgery in abdominal diseases (videos and dry-lab) D Corrado Pedrazzani (Coordinator)
5° 6° Intra-articular onjection in Rheumatology D Elena Fracassi (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical toxicology in the Emergency Department and CBRN events D Giorgio Ricci (Coordinator)
5° 6° Ablative treatments in hepatobiliopancreatic surgery D Salvatore Paiella (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Colordroppler ultrasound of carotid arteries, lower limbs and abdominal vessels D Sergio De Marchi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Health inequalities and barriers experienced by LGBTI people in accessing health care D Francesco Amaddeo (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Diagnosis in pediatric allergy D Giorgio Piacentini (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Gynecological endocrinology D Paolo Moghetti (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Training to medical humanities D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Tumor immunology and immunomodulation D Stefano Ugel (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Intraoperative neurophysiology: a functional approach to modern neurosurgery D Francesco Sala (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Therapy with biologic agents in rheumatic diseases D Ombretta Viapiana (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Tropical Medicine D Zeno Bisoffi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation D Nicola Smania (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Humanitarian Medicine and Surgery D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Non-pharmacological treatment of pain in surgery: music therapy D Giovanni Paolo Pollini (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Multimodal treatment of pancreatic neoplasms D Giuseppe Malleo (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° From Darwin to molecular genomics D Alberto Turco (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical Deontology D Federica Bortolotti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Women and health D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical and antropological emergencies in third world countries D Mariarita Bertoldi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Stress reduction D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S01156

Credits

7

Coordinator

Salvatore Monaco

Language

Italian

The teaching is organized as follows:

NEUROCHIRURGIA

Credits

1

Period

Lezioni 2° semestre 1°- 5° anno

Location

VERONA

Academic staff

Francesco Sala

MEDICINA FISICA E RIABILITATIVA

Credits

1

Period

Lezioni 2° semestre 1°- 5° anno

Location

VERONA

Academic staff

Nicola Smania

NEUROLOGIA CLINICA

Credits

5

Period

See the unit page

Location

VERONA

Academic staff

See the unit page

Learning outcomes

Learning objectives

The goal of the course is to train medical students in acquiring the skills for the recognition of neurological disorder presentations, the formulation of a differential diagnosis, the treatment of common neurological diseases.

Students should be able to elicit a pertinent general and neurological history, recognize symptoms and signs of acute and chronic neurological disorders, perform an appropriate neurological examination, and use the related terminology.
Student should be able to select the appropriate investigations for neurological diagnostics, and be familiar with pharmacological and neurosurgical management, in addition to neurorehabilitation strategies.

Program

a)

DIAGNOSIS OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES

The clinical method and the approach to the patient with neurological disease
Disorders of conscioussness and confusional states
Neurological examination and diagnostic investigations

DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

 Cerebrovascular diseases
 Dementia
 Primary and secondary headaches
 Craniofacial pain
 Epilepsy
 Motor neuron disease
 Movement disorders
 Ataxic syndromes
 Demyelinating diseases
 Infections, paraneoplastic and disimmune disorders
 Prion diseases
 Myelopathies
 Disorders of the autonomic nervous system
 Sleep disorders
 Nutritional disorders

MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA NERVOSO PERIFERICO

 Genetic and acquired neuropathies
 Radiculopathies, plexopathies and mononeuropathies
 Autonomic neuropathies
 Guillain-Barrè syndrome and other immune-mediated neuropathies

DISEASES OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION (NMJ) AND OF THE MUSCLE

 Myasthenia gravis and other NMJ disorders
 Muscular dystrophies
 Inflammatory myopathies

NEURORIABILITAZIONE

 Lesioni cerebrali e riorganizzazione nervosa post-lesionale
 Riabilitazione cognitiva
 Deambulazione fisiologica e pattern patologici della deambulazione nelle malattie neurologiche
 Neuroriabilitazione nelle paralisi cerebrali infantili

NEUROCHIRURGIA

 Degenerative disorders of the spine
 Cerebral and spinal neoplasms
 Craniocerebral trauma
 Neuromodulation

b) Clinical practice

 Neurological examination
 Clinical case discussions
 Electroencephalography recording techniques
 Interpretation of relevant biochemical tests and laboratory findings

Bibliography

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Aminoff MJ, Greenberd DA, Simon RP Clinical Neurology, Mc Graw Hill 2015
Kasper Gl, et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19th Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 2018
Angelini C, Battistin L, Neurologia Clinica Società Editrice Esculapio 2014
Federico A Neurologia Pratica Edises 2014
Lumenta, Di Rocco, Haase, Mooij Neurosurgery (Edizione 1) Springer Verlag; 1 edizione (30 aprile 2009) 2009 ISBN 978-3-540-79565-0
Sandrini Giorgio, Dattola Roberto, Smania Nicola Compendio di Neuroriabilitazione, Seconda edizione aggiornata ed ampliata (Edizione 2) VERDUCI EDITORE S.R.L 2021 88-7620-914-X
Massimiliano Prencipe L' esame neurologico (Edizione 1) Piccin 2011 978-88-299-2082-2

Examination Methods

- The assessments 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.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Kasper Gl, et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19th Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 2015
2. Aminoff MJ, Greenberd DA, Simon RP, Clinical Neurology, Mc Graw Hill, 2015
3. Angelini C, Battistin L, Neurologia Clinica, Società Editrice Esculapio, 2014
4. Federico A, Neurologia Pratica, Edises, 2014

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