39566 - Gastroenterological and Endocrinological Surgery (Part 2)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5708)

Learning outcomes

The module, which requires a quick recall and reuse of the knowledge of Surgical Anatomy and Applied Pathophysiology learned in previous years, aims to provide students with the definition and treatment of the main diseases of the gastroenteric system and endocrine organs. The course is conducted over 16 hours of lectures (2 ECTS) in close collaboration with the instructors of other modules (see Educational Objectives). By the end of the course, the student will have the skills and knowledge necessary for identifying the main mentioned diseases through the use of the correct diagnostic pathway, essential for their definition and for the correct surgical therapeutic indication.

Course contents

  • Diverticular Disease 

  • Metabolic and Obesity Surgery

  • Reflux disease and Hiatal hernia

  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

  • Kidney Transplantation: Indications, Techniques, and Short- and Long-Term Complications

  • Readings/Bibliography

    Educational material used for the lectures (slides)

    Sabiston Textbook of Surgery The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice, 21st Edition - February 16, 2021, Editor: Courtney M. Townsend

    Teaching methods

    1 ECTS corresponds to 8 hours of lectures

    Assessment methods

    The examination is oral and graded on a scale of thirty. The grade obtained in the individual modules contributes to the determination of the final grade for the Integrated Course.

    Teaching tools

    Slides.

    All the material presented during the lectures will be available to the students.

    Office hours

    See the website of Leonardo Solaini