- Docente: Paolo Caraceni
- Credits: 10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
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from Oct 01, 2024 to Dec 09, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student acquires:
- the ability of clinical reasoning adequate to analyse and solve the most common and relevant clinical problems of medical interest;
-the ability to correctly apply the methodologies to detect clinical, functional and laboratory findings, interpreting them critically also from a physiopathological point of view, for the purposes of diagnosis and prognosis and the ability to evaluate the cost/benefit ratios in the choice of diagnostic procedures;
- the ability to analyse and solve clinical problems of a medical nature, assessing the relationship between benefits, risks and costs in the light of the principles of evidence-based medicine and diagnostic-therapeutic appropriateness;
- the ability to correctly set up a therapeutic programme in the context of the most common and relevant clinical pictures of medical interest, knowing how to make choices in the light of the principles of evidence-based medicine.
Course contents
Presentation of clinical cases on the following topics:
- Frailty and disability
- Sarcopenia
- Bacterial infections
- Delirium
- Pneumonia ab-ingestis
- Pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis
- Differential diagnosis ascites
- Chronic liver disease
- Treatment of ascites in the patient with cirrhosis
- Intestinal lymphangiectasia
- Alcohol use disorder
- Alcohol withdrawal syndrome and delirium tremens
- Wernicke syndrome
- Korsakoff syndrome
- Palliative care approach in oncological and non-oncological patients
- Generalities on vasculitis
- Temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica
- Cryoglobulinemias
Readings/Bibliography
- Harrisons's Principles of Internal Medicine. Joseph Loscalzo, Anthony Fauci, Dennis Kasper. Editore: McGraw-Hill Education. 21th Edition. Anno: 2022
- Medicina Interna Sistematica. Claudio Rugarli. Editore: EDRA. VIII edizione. Anno: 2021
- Files Power point on the topics uploaded on Virtuale
Teaching methods
Interactive discussion on clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and diagnostic-therapeutic pathway using Mentimeter.com functions
Assessment methods
Oral examination with clinical case discussion aimed at assessing the student's clinical reasoning skills
Teaching tools
Use of Mentimeter.com
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Caraceni