- Docente: Francesco Azzaroli
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows: pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical course, diagnostic workup and therapeutic strategies of the main diseases of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, liver and biliary tree.
Course contents
The course is divided in two parts covered by two different professors:
- epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical pictures, diagnostic algorythms of esophageal, gastric and small and large intestinal diseases
- epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical pictures, diagnostic algorythms of epatobiliary and pancreatic diseases
Readings/Bibliography
UNIGASTRO manual, EGI editor, Rome
Teaching methods
Lessons are performed by two different teachers for a total of 3 CFU
Assessment methods
The assessment method is represented by an oral examination aimed at evaluating that the student has reached the teaching objectives, in particular the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic work-up and general therapeutic strategy of gastrointestinal diseases
The final mark is the result of the mean of the marks obtained during an oral examination on the topics of the integrated course of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases.
Teaching tools
The teaching material is represented by a text (Manuale UNIGASTRO, a book written by all the italian teachers of gastroenterology) and by the discussed slides, which are available for the student at the end of each lesson
Office hours
See the website of Francesco Azzaroli