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Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e chirurgia - Enrollment from 2025/2026Pediatrics (2017/2018)
The teaching is organized as follows:
PEDIATRIA
Credits
4
Period
Lezioni 1° semestre 2°- 6° anno
Location
VERONA
Academic staff
Franco Antoniazzi
Attilio Boner
Claudio Maffeis
Giorgio Piacentini
Angelo Pietrobelli
CHIRURGIA PEDIATRICA
Credits
1
Period
Lezioni 1° semestre 2°- 6° anno
Location
VERONA
Academic staff
SEMINARI DI PEDIATRIA E DIDATTICA PRATICA DI PEDIATRIA
Credits
6
Period
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Location
VERONA
Academic staff
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Learning outcomes
Basic notions on growth and development and its clinical application form birth to adolescence; notions of the influence of family, community, and society on children health and disease; attainment of communication skills that facilitate clinical interaction with children, adolescents, and their families; notions of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in pediatrics; attainment of performing a physical examination of newborns, children and adolescents and to diagnose (plus notes of treatment) the most common acute and chronic diseases of children.
Program
Growth and development
Nutrition
Genetics
Respiratory diseases
allwrgy
Rheumatic diseases
Infections
Gastro-enteric
Nephrology
Endrocrine System
Newborn - Neonates
IUGR
Nervous System development
Bibliography
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Marcadante K.J, Kliegman R.M. et al. | Nelson Essential of Pediatrics (Edizione 18) | Elsevier | 2015 | ||
Ottolenghi A. | L’essenziale in Chirurgia Pediatrica | Ed Cortina | 2000 |
Examination Methods
Oral exam with always two Professors present at the desk.
Individual performance. All Pediatric Program discussed and developed during lessons is part of the oral examination.
Ponderal mean of the performances of the students, not only during the examination but also in part coming from the period spent in the Pediatric Clinic