- Docente: Jacopo Ciaffi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/16
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthopaedics Techniques (cod. 5915)
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from Oct 02, 2025 to Oct 30, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student has the knowledge and ability to understand the pathophysiological bases, symptoms and signs of the main rheumatic diseases.
Course contents
- Outline of anatomy, histology and physiology of the musculoskeletal system
- Pathophysiology of rheumatic diseases
- Semeiotics of inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint diseases
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Axial spondyloarthritis (SpA)
- Peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA)
- Infectious arthritis
- Crystal-induced arthritis (gout, CPPD)
- Inflammatory myopathies
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Connective tissue diseases
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoporosis
- Vascular bone diseases
- Paget's disease
Readings/Bibliography
Unireuma, Reumatologia per le professioni sanitarie, Idelson-Gnocchi Editrice.
Teaching methods
Classroom lectures
Assessment methods
Verification of learning takes place through a written test aimed at assessing the achievement of the educational objectives of the course.
The test will consist of 31 multiple-choice questions (4), of which only one will be correct. The time allowed will be 30 minutes.
Correct answers will be awarded a score of 1, while wrong answers or questions with no answer will have no score.
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Teaching tools
The didactic material (slides) presented during the lesson will be made available to students on the Virtual portal. In addition, the slides of the lessons are provided with a bibliography in the margin, in order to allow the student any further information
Office hours
See the website of Jacopo Ciaffi