09151 - Internal Medicine

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences (cod. 8488)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student must possess knowledge and skills that extend and strengthen the contents, theoretical interpretative models, operational and research methods of nursing and midwifery sciences acquired in the first cycle in relation to the evolution of internal medicine.

Course contents

The method of diagnostic-therapeutic pathways

The diagnostic path: the framework

Feedback mechanisms

The patient with diabetes mellitus

The patient with heart failure

The patient chronic epatic failure

The patient with chronic inflammatory bowel disease

The concept of frailty

Review of a diagnostic-therapeutic care pathway

Readings/Bibliography

Medicina Interna - Massini R et al - McGraw-Hill education editor

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures with slides

Assessment methods

Written test with 20 multiple choice questions (20 points) + written essay on a topic or part of a topic covered by the lessons (10 points). Honors are foreseen for those who reach 30 points only through an oral exam

Teaching tools

Real-life cases

Office hours

See the website of Fernando Rizzello

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.