70992 - Ecography in Internal Medicine and Bedside Clinical Ecography

Learning outcomes

Students will become able to recognize a condition of normality or of gross abnormality in various upper abdominal disease, knowing how to approach the use of an ultrasound scanner. They will lear the principles, indications, modality of safe perfomance and expected outcomes of major ultrasound guided interventional procedures.

Course contents

Corso Elettivo 2019-2020:

"ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AND LIVER ONCOLOGY"

Prof. Fabio Piscaglia, Prof. Marco Domenicali

Course Dates 2020:

Monday 24 January(h 13-19)

Wednesday 26 January (h 13-19),

Thursday 29 January (h 14-19)

Monday 31 January (h 13-19)

For the detailed program (in Italian) see

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabio.piscaglia/didattica/programma/2019/315297

Location

Lectures: Aula Magna Nuove Patologie – Pad 5, Hospital S.Orsola Malpighi 

Hands-on training: Medicina Interna Piscaglia – Floor 3, Pavillion 2, Hospital S.Orsola Malpighi

Attendance to the entire course is compulsory. The pass certificate will be released after passing of the final test and multiple choice quizzes at the end of the course.

 

The programs is part of an integrated course of 3 intermingled didactic modules

The course will be entirely held in Italian

Please check the italian version for the program

Readings/Bibliography

There are several books about ultrasonography.

Two reported here are in Italian

Ecografia in Medicina Interna, autori Carla Serra e Cristina Felicani. Editore: PICCIN, Padova

Manuale Italiano di Ecografia Internistica, curatori Schiavone-Romano, Antonio Delfino Editore, Roma

 

An online book in English (or single chapters) can be purchased from the EFSUMB website

http://www.efsumb.org/blog/ecb-2edition

For further learning the Webinars EFSUMB are recommended

http://www.efsumb.org/blog/webinar-archive-2

Teaching methods

1. Traditional lectures
2. Hands on practical training in small groups on ultrasound scanners with the opportunity to personally attempt to perform and ultrasonography under the supervision of tutors (pending COVID rules permitting)

Assessment methods

The assessment will be performed through a multiple choice test at the end of the course.

Teaching tools

The course will include traditional lectures with the use of computer and a videobeamer to project slides, but also an ultrasound scanner will be connected to project images during demonstrations.
Practical hand-on sessions are also planned during which the students will become acquainted with conventional ultrasound expoliting the opportunity to visualize organs in the abdomen and neck personally under the supervision of a tutor.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Piscaglia