03467 - Endocrinology (AK)

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course student knows the bio-molecular bases of the control of hormonal secretion and of the growth of endocrine glands. Student also learnes pathophysiology, diagnostic approach, and therapy of different diseases

Course contents

Topics of the course are neuroendocrinology, thyroid diseases, hypercortisolism and hypocortisolism, hypertension secondary to endocrine diseases, type and type 2 diabetes, paratiroid diseases, hyperandrogenism and female hypogonadism, male ipogonadism,  osteoporosis, obesity and metabolic syndrome, hypoglicaemia, severe insulin resistance states. 

Readings/Bibliography

Uniendo. Endocrinologia Clinica. Ed. Minerva Medica

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching using slides. Interactive sessions focused on the discussion of clinical cases

Teaching tools

slides

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Gambineri