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Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e chirurgia - Enrollment from 2025/2026
Academic year:
1° semestre From 10/4/21 To 12/23/21
years Modules TAF Teacher
Supplementary research and laboratory diagnostic informations on Autoimmunity D Silvia Sartoris (Coordinator)
Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas: a current dylemma from diagnosis to treatment D Giovanni Marchegiani (Coordinator)
4° 5° Coagulation disorders. Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects D Francesca Pizzolo (Coordinator)
5° 6° Research methodology basis and critical reading of a scientific article D Giuseppe Borzellino (Coordinator)
5° 6° Complications in surgery: management and prevention D Jacopo Weindelmayer (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical ultrasound D Mirko D'Onofrio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Management of severe visceral trauma D Giuseppe Borzellino (Coordinator)
5° 6° Neurophysiological investigations for studying sleep and sleep-related disorders D Gaetano Cantalupo (Coordinator)
5° 6° Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery: indications, costs and benefits D Alessandro Esposito (Coordinator)
5° 6° PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE NEOPLASMS. FROM SURGERY, TO MEDICAL TREATMENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH D Antonio Pea (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of the liver: from the preoperative optimization of the liver to the postoperative care D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° The Multiple Sclerosis and the demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system: immunopathology, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, treatment D Massimiliano Calabrese (Coordinator)
5° 6° Scheletal deseases in childhood D Franco Antoniazzi (Coordinator)
5° 6° Neurosurgical emergencies D Alberto Feletti (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Clinical aspects and overlapping in ACSD (Abnormal Connectivity Spectrum Disorders): Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Tourette's Syndrome D Leonardo Zoccante (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Histopathological and molecular features of gastroenteric and bilio-pancreatic tumors D Claudio Luchini (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Evidence-based medicine: how to read and understand clinical studies, reviews, meta-analyses and clinical-practice guidelines D Giovanni Ostuzzi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary imaging D Giulia Zamboni (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Physician-patient communication strategies in hematological malignancies D Cristina Tecchio (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Toxicological screening in acute/lethal poisoning cases: chemoinformatic analytical applications D Aldo Eliano Polettini (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° Therapy of diabetes mellitus D Enzo Bonora (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° Immunophenotyping in normal hematopoiesis and in hematological diseases D Mauro Krampera (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Alcoholism D Rebecca Casari (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Biology, Clinics and Diagnosis of COVID-19 D Giuseppe Lippi (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Heroin and cocaine. History, epidemiology, new scenarios, clinical approach, complications. Serts. D Rebecca Casari (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Access to essential medicines in developing countries D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical and social history of drugs D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Literature search using PubMed D Ugo Moretti (Coordinator)
2° semestre From 2/21/22 To 5/31/22
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° Bioinformatics D Maria Romanelli (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Short history of pharmacology D Ugo Moretti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° History of surgery D Maria Bencivenga (Coordinator)
Severe asthma: from pathogenesis to management D Marco Caminati (Coordinator)
Clinical electrocardiography D Daniele Prati (Coordinator)
Role of endoscopy in digestive diseases D Armando Gabbrielli (Coordinator)
Nephrolithiasis: endocrine-metabolic and nephrological aspects D Chiara Caletti (Coordinator)
Clinical approach to cancer patient D Michele Milella (Coordinator)
4° 5° Pathophysiological, clinical and therapeutics approach to cardiovascular risk D Anna Maria Fratta Pasini (Coordinator)
4° 5° Off-label use of medicines in clinical practice D Laura Cuzzolin (Coordinator)
4° 5° Metabolic Kidney Diseases D Giuseppina Pessolano (Coordinator)
4° 5° Pancreatic neoplasms: clinic-pathologic features D Giuseppe Zamboni (Coordinator)
4° 5° Nodule of the thyroid: clinicopathologic correlations D Guido Martignoni (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° Tumor immunology and immunomodulation D Stefano Ugel (Coordinator)
5° 6° A Day In Endoscopy: New Frontiers of Operative Endoscopy D Francesco Tomba (Coordinator)
5° 6° Pediatric andrology and fertility potential D Nicola Zampieri (Coordinator)
5° 6° Gynecopathology in deep D Anna Caliò (Coordinator)
5° 6° Indications for Imaging: CT or RM ? D Mirko D'Onofrio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Brain at work D Francesca Benedetta Pizzini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of pancreas and peryampullary area D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Minimally invasive pediatric surgery D Nicola Zampieri (Coordinator)
5° 6° Neonatal surgery D Francesco Saverio Camoglio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgical oncology of the gastrointestinal tract D Corrado Pedrazzani (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of retroperitoneal tumors and GIST D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Basic course ECG and interactive interpretation D Vincenzo Marafioti (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° Oncologic Imaging D Mirko D'Onofrio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Intraoperative neurophysiology: a functional approach to modern neurosurgery D Francesco Sala (Coordinator)
5° 6° Infection in ICU D Anna Maria Azzini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Therapy with biologic agents in rheumatic diseases D Ombretta Viapiana (Coordinator)
5° 6° Physicians: their history, their stories D Luca Idolazzi (Coordinator)
5° 6° Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation D Nicola Smania (Coordinator)
5° 6° PAEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS D Elena Manuela Samaila (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical senology D Francesca Pellini (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° Multimodal treatment of Upper GastroIntestinal Maligniancies D Maria Bencivenga (Coordinator)
5° 6° Multimodal treatment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma D Giuseppe Malleo (Coordinator)
5° 6° TUMORS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: THE PATHOLOGIST ROLE IN DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY D Valeria Barresi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Abdominal wall surgery D Antonino Zago (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Colordroppler ultrasound of carotid arteries, lower limbs and abdominal vessels D Sergio De Marchi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Gynecological endocrinology D Paolo Moghetti (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Imaging of infectious diseases D Giulia Zamboni (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Intensive Care Nephrology: Rena Replacel therapy in Intensive Unit D Nicoletta Pertica (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Introduction to Robotic Surgery D Paolo Fiorini (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° The clinical pathways of surgical patients D Luca Casetti (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Robotic surgery in urology D Alessandro Antonelli (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Management of the patient with severe liver disease D Andrea Dalbeni (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Mental health in humanitarian settings and in low- and middle-income countries D Michela Nose' (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Hints in the diagnosis and treatment of lymphomas D Carlo Visco (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Translating basic immunology into the clinic D Francesco De Sanctis (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Tropical Medicine D Zeno Bisoffi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Multimodal treatment of hepatobiliopancreatic neoplasms D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Living on dialysis: clinical and psychological aspects. D Paola Tomei (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Science Communication and Dissemination D Marco Cambiaghi (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° BODY COMPOSITION: METHODS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE D Carlo Zancanaro (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Improving adherence in medicine: the motivational interviewing D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Practical issues in genetic counseling D Alberto Turco (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Molecular mechanisms of sensory transduction diseases D Daniele Dell'Orco (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° From Darwin to molecular genomics D Alberto Turco (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Ethical dilemmas in medical genetics D Alberto Turco (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Dependence on legal drugs (benzodiazepines and pain killers) D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Women and health D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Humanitarian Medicine and Surgery D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Art, creativity and mental health: an open dialogue D Giovanni Ostuzzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Psychopatology D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Health and behaviour: an interdisciplinary approach to promote better quality of life in conditions of vulnerability D Lidia Del Piccolo (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical Deontology D Federica Bortolotti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Health inequalities and barriers experienced by LGBTI people in accessing health care D Francesco Amaddeo (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Gambling D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Tabagism D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Literature search using PubMed D Ugo Moretti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical Anthropological Problems in Low Income Countries D Mariarita Bertoldi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Human retroviruses: HIV and AIDS D Donato Zipeto (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Emerging Viruses and zonosis D Donato Zipeto (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
5° 6° Experimental microsurgery D Not yet assigned
5° 6° Extracorporeal life support D Not yet assigned

Teaching code

4S01151

Credits

11

Coordinator

Domenico Girelli

Language

Italian

The teaching is organized as follows:

DIDATTICA PRATICA MEDICINA DI FAMIGLIA E TUTORIAL PROBLEM SOLVING

Credits

3

Period

See the unit page

Location

VERONA

Academic staff

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Learning outcomes

Module: MEDICINA INTERNA: LEZIONI
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AIM OF THE COURSE
The present course is intended to provide participants with a clinical diagnostic capacity on the basis of the recognition of signs and symptoms presented by the patient.
The students should demonstrate to already possess established notions of physiology, pathology and pathophisiology of a broad range of diseases involving all organ systems, and to be able to use them in the interpretation of the patient’ clinical picture.
The students should therefore to infer pathogenetic processes starting from the knowledge of the molecular bases and leading to the most frequent clinical situations and syndromes. The students must demonstrate the requisite skills in physical examination, being able to recognize the main signs characterizing the different diseases. Moreover they have to synthesize and prioritize effectively the problems of the patient, hypothesizing a diagnostic management plan with the support of biochemical and instrumental data and bearing in mind the need of an objective confirmation in the differential diagnostic process.

Classroom lectures will be centered on the analysis of emblematic case-reports on which will be developed and discussed the diagnostic rationale, formulated differential diagnoses, resumed topics of systematic disease in order to define the clinical picture, explain its severity, urgency, clinical relevance; finally, will be discussed and motivated the diagnostic procedures that are necessary to lead to a definitive diagnosis and formulation of a prognosis.

TUTORIAL

the main objective of Decision Making tutorials is training students to describe the decision tree of a clinical case, from diagnosis to therapy, in a collaborative manner within a working group. Other objectives are: reviving prior knowledge; organizing information; being able to present and discuss the findings of the working group.

Problem Solving Tutorials are aimed to fifth year students of “Medicine and Surgery” School. The students are divided into 12 groups. In total, each group deals with 4 clinical problems related to internal medicine and pharmacology area.

Program

TUTORIAL

Decision Making Tutorials are aimed to fifth year students of “Medicine and Surgery” School. The students are divided into 12 groups. In total, each group deals with 4 clinical problems related to internal medicine area.

Problem Solving Tutorials are aimed to fifth year students of “Medicine and Surgery” School. The students are divided into 12 groups. In total, each group deals with 4 clinical problems related to internal medicine and pharmacology area.
Module: MEDICINA INTERNA: LEZIONI
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Course Program
1) The recognition of the anemic syndrome will lead to systematically review the following diseases:
-hemoglobinopathies, hypo- or aplastic anemia, megaloblastic anemia,
-hemolytic and acute hemorrhagic anemia,
-myelodysplastic disorders, myeloproliferative disorders, lymphatic neoplasms,
-anemia related to chronic inflammatory diseases

2) Dyspnea, chest pain, abnormal cardiac rhythm will lead to review the following pathologies:
-heart rhythm disorders and diseases (heart failure, valvular heart disease, diseases of the pericardium, myocardium, heart lung),
-atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, diseases of the blood vessels and the aorta,
- pneumonia, bronchial asthma, COPD, pulmonary interstitial diseases, diseses of pleura, mediastinum and diaphragm, primary pulmonary hypertension.
Particular importance will be given to the differential diagnosis of the different causes of chest pain.

3) Oedema will lead to review the following pathologies:
-Kidney diseases: glomerulonephrites, acquired and congenital disorder of the renal tubules, interstitial nephropathy, nephrolithiasis
-Heart diseases: heart failure.
-Intestinal malabsorption: inflammatory intestinal diseases and related differential diagnosis, irritable bowel, mesenterial vasculopathies.
-Liver diseases: cirrhosis; acute and chronic hepatitis; infiltrative, genetic and metabolic liver disorders; diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tract.

4) Jaundice will lead to review the inherent systemic diseases:
liver cirrhosis, acute and chronic hepatitis, infiltrative, genetic and metabolic liver disorders; diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tract.

5) Diarrhea and constipation will lead to review the following systematic diseases: disorders of intestinal absorption, celiac disease, acute and chronic pancreatitis.

6) The osteoarticular and muscle pain, alterations of sensitivity and motility, changes in skin diseases will lead to systematic review regarding:
-systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, and infectious, Behcet's syndrome, vasculitis, sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, gout and crystal arthropathies, osteoarthritis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, chronic granulomatous disease, autoinflammatory diseases.
-Atopy, allergy to inhalant agents, adverse reactions to foods and drugs. Eosinofilic and hypereosinophilic syndrome. Acquired Immunodeficiency.
- Parathyroid disease, Paget’ disease, porphyria, storage diseases such as Wilson's disease, lysosomal storage diseases, abnormal metabolism of purine and pyrimidine , glycogen storage diseases, inherited metabolic abnormalities of carbohydrates, membrane transport and fatty tissue.

7) Fever will lead to review the differential diagnosis involving:
fever of unknown origin (FUO), factitia fever, sepsis and septic shock, bacterial endocarditis, osteomyelitis, diseases due to gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, spirochetes, rickettsia, mycoplasma, chlamidia, DNA or RNA virus, infections by fungi, da protozoa and helminths.

8) Recurrent or frequent infections will lead to consider:
the primary immunodeficiencies with particular attention to CVID and IgA deficiency.

8) The cough will lead to review the following systemic diseases:
bronchial asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonia, pneumonia, bronchiectasiae, COPD, interstitial lung diseases , primary pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, diseases of the pleura, mediastinum, diaphragm.

9) Abnormal blood pressure will lead to review:
-primary and secondary hypertension, resiatnt and low-renin hypertension;
- cardiovascular risk factors, the atherosclerosis, the abnormalities of lipoproteins metabolism;
-pheochromocitoma, primary aldosteronism, the Cushing syndrome;
- revascular disease (fibrodysplastic and atheromatous stenosis of renal artery), the aortic diseases.

10) Weight and appetite disturbance will lead to review:
- nutritonal status and balance, vitamins and oligoelements deficiency;
-lymphatic neoplasms, skin cancer, lung and breast cancer, gastro-intestinal cancers, liver and biliary tract cancer, pancreas cancer, neoplasms of kidney, prostatic gland, testis, ovary, bone and soft tissues,;
- paraneoplastic syndrome;
- environmental pathologies, poisoning and overdose of drugs.

11) Hemorragic lesions of the skin or abnormal venous drainage will lead to review: coagulative disorders, thrombosis and thrombophilia, platelet and vessel diseases. In such context will be also considered the clinical picture due to thrombosis in unusual sites.

Bibliography

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Examination Methods

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