- Docente: Fernando Rizzello
- 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 11, 2024 to Dec 10, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will have: -the ability to use clinical reasoning to analyze and resolve the most common and relevant clinical problems of medical interest; -the ability to correctly apply the methodologies aimed at detecting clinical, functional and laboratory findings, interpreting them critically also from a physiopathological perspective, 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 analyze and resolve clinical problems of a medical nature, evaluating the ratios 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 program 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
The Framework
Abdominal pain and its surroundings
Immune-mediated diseases
When simple symptoms become complex: diarrhea and fever
Readings/Bibliography
Casagranda - Cavazza - Magnacavallo: Medicina di Emergenza Urgenza. Idelson Gnocchi
Herold: Medicina Interna, Compendio Essenziale per la pratica clinica. Monduzzi Editoriale
Harrison: Principles of Internal Medicine. McGraw-Hill
Teaching methods
Discussion of clinical cases through which the diagnostic and therapeutic approach will be discussed
Assessment methods
During the exam, the student will be presented with a clinical case outline and asked for its diagnostic framework and therapy.
During the exam, the student will be given a clinical case outline and asked for its diagnostic framework and therapy.
The grade will be determined by the ability to perform differential diagnosis and by the correctness of the therapy applied and the subsequent management steps
Teaching tools
clinical cases carried out on the internet
Office hours
See the website of Fernando Rizzello