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Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e chirurgia - Enrollment from 2025/2026
Academic year:
Corsi elettivi 1° semestre From 10/10/16 To 12/22/16
years Modules TAF Teacher
Autoimmunity in Diagnostics and research D Silvia Sartoris (Coordinator)
2° 3° Access to essential medicines in developing countries D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
2° 3° Medical and social history of drugs D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
4° 5° Coagulation disorders. Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects D Domenico Girelli (Coordinator)
Basic course ECG and interactive interpretation D Vincenzo Marafioti (Coordinator)
Neurophysiological investigations for studying sleep and sleep-related disorders D Gaetano Cantalupo (Coordinator)
5° 6° Topics of hepatology from medical and surgical point of view D Franco Capra (Coordinator)
5° 6° Mass casuality incidents - Disaster Medicine D Enrico Polati (Coordinator)
5° 6° Pathophysiology of congenital heart disease D Giovanni Battista Luciani (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of the liver: from the preoperative optimization of the liver to the postoperative care D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Multiple Sclerosis and demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system: from diagnosis to therapy D Massimiliano Calabrese (Coordinator)
5° 6° Hematological microscopy D Achille Ambrosetti (Coordinator)
5° 6° Uncommon pancreatic neoplasms D Roberto Salvia (Coordinator)
5° 6° Extracorporeal life support D Alessio Rungatscher (Coordinator)
5° 6° Sicurezza del paziente e gestione del rischio clinico D Gabriele Romano (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° Physiology and pathophysiology of micturition D Maria Angela Cerruto (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Physiopathology of low back pain and degenerative spondiloarthritis D Bruno Magnan (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Pulmonary infections D Angelo Antonio Cazzadori (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)
3° 4° 5° 6° Interpretation of laboratory data: from theory to practice D Gian Luca Salvagno (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° New trends in carotid surgery: traditional surgery, endovascular approach, protection device: when and how to use it D Alberto Scuro (Coordinator)
Progress test 2016 From 11/16/16 To 11/16/16
years Modules TAF Teacher
Progress Test 1st year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 2nd year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 3rd year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 4th year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 5th year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Progress Test 6th year D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Corsi elettivi 2° semestre From 2/20/17 To 5/26/17
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° Bioinformatics D Maria Romanelli (Coordinator)
2° 3° Molecular biology of emerging viruses D Donato Zipeto (Coordinator)
2° 3° Human retroviruses: HIV and AIDS 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° Motivational interviewing D Fabio Lugoboni (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° Tabagism D Fabio Lugoboni (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Medical and antropological emergencies in third world countries D Mariarita Bertoldi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° History of surgery D Giovanni Paolo Pollini (Coordinator)
Clinical electrocardiography D Daniele Prati (Coordinator)
3° 4° Bacterial persistence in the environment: an issue of medical interest D Maria Del Mar Lleo'Fernandez (Coordinator)
Surgical anatomy of head and neck D Daniele Marchioni (Coordinator)
Clinical approach to cancer patient D Giampaolo Tortora (Coordinator)
Psychosocial rehabilitation D Lorenzo Burti (Coordinator)
4° 5° Off-label use of medicines in clinical practice D Laura Cuzzolin (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° Pancreatic neoplasms: clinic-pathologic features D Giuseppe Zamboni (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° Nodule of the thyroid: clinicopathologic correlations D Guido Martignoni (Coordinator)
5° 6° Advanced life support D Enrico Polati (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical arithmology D Luca Tomasi (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary tree D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Surgery of pancreas and peryampullary area D Calogero Iacono (Coordinator)
5° 6° Neonatal surgery D Francesco Saverio Camoglio (Coordinator)
5° 6° Emergencies in the extra-hospital environment D Enrico Polati (Coordinator)
5° 6° Nutritional Epigenomics: a bridge between DNA and disease D Simonetta Friso (Coordinator)
5° 6° The epilepsies and the epileptic syndromes D Luigi Giuseppe Bongiovanni (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° Neuropathic pain D Enrico Polati (Coordinator)
5° 6° Postural pain D Luca Giuseppe Dalle Carbonare (Coordinator)
5° 6° Imaging in reumathology D Maurizio Rossini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Introduction to Robotic Surgery D Paolo Fiorini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Intraoperative neurophysiology: a functional approach to modern neurosurgery D Francesco Sala (Coordinator)
5° 6° Literature search using PubMed D Roberto Leone (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° Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders D Stefano Tamburin (Coordinator)
5° 6° Scheletal deseases in childhood D Franco Antoniazzi (Coordinator)
5° 6° Psysiopathology of the foot in childhood and in adults D Bruno Magnan (Coordinator)
5° 6° Experimental microsurgery D Alessio Rungatscher (Coordinator)
5° 6° Clinical senology D Giovanni Paolo Pollini (Coordinator)
5° 6° Antibiotic treatment of infectious diseases D Ercole Concia (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)
4° 5° 6° Aspetti pratici per il controllo delle malattie allergiche e respiratorie in età pediatrica D Attilio Boner (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Colordroppler ultrasound of carotid arteries, lower limbs and abdominal vessels D Sergio De Marchi (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Genetic, biomolecular and histomorphometric diagnosis of skeletal and degenerative diseases. D Luca Giuseppe Dalle Carbonare (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Disorders of iron metabolism. From molecular pathophysiology to the clinic D Domenico Girelli (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Diagnosis in pediatric allergy D Giorgio Piacentini (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Gynecological endocrinology D Paolo Moghetti (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Tumor immunology and immunomodulation D Stefano Ugel (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Tropical Medicine D Michela Conti (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation D Nicola Smania (Coordinator)
4° 5° 6° Humanitarian Medicine and Surgery D Elda Baggio (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Practical issues in genetic counseling D Alberto Turco (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Women and medicine D Elda Baggio (Coordinator)
3° 4° 5° 6° Diagnosis of Disease based on the laboratory analysis: from theory to practice D Gian Luca Salvagno (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Alcoholism D Marco Faccini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Medical Deontology D Federica Bortolotti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Heroin and cocaine. History, epidemiology, new scenarios, clinical approach, complications. Serts. D Marco Faccini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Introduction to the knowledge of complementary/alternative medicine D Paolo Bellavite (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
2° 3° 4° 5° 6° Training to medical humanities D Not yet assigned

Teaching code

4S01151

Credits

10

Coordinator

Oliviero Olivieri

Language

Italian

The teaching is organized as follows:

RICERCA CLINICA

Credits

1

Period

Lezioni 1° semestre 2°- 6° anno

Location

VERONA

Academic staff

Claudio Lunardi

MEDICINA INTERNA

Credits

6

Period

Lezioni 1° semestre 2°- 6° anno, Lezioni 2° semestre 1°- 5° anno

Location

VERONA

DIDATTICA PRATICA MEDICINA DI FAMIGLIA E TUTORIAL PROBLEM SOLVING

Credits

3

Period

See the unit page

Location

VERONA

Academic staff

See the unit page

Learning outcomes

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.

Program

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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

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Kasper Gl, et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19th Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 2018

Examination Methods

Final assessment - Methodology
The final examination is divided into two parts:

1) Practical test at the bedside: execution of maneuvers for the patient’ physical examination, which will be verified by the teacher. Suitability, procedural fairness and understanding of their meaning from the student will be specifically evaluated*.
2) Oral exam: it will be focused on a real patient’ situation, in order to describe an appropriate management plan and possible differential diagnoses. It will allow to test learning not only of the specific pathology but also of the interrelationships in the holistic context of the single patient.


*N.B: passing practical test is the necesary condition to be admitted to the oral exam ; for this reason, it may be useful for the student to show written documentation of the previous practical training.
In the event that a positive practical test is followed by a negative judgment in the oral examination, the practical test will be considered valid for the next exam.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE