- Docente: Giovanni Barbara
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)
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from Oct 21, 2025 to Dec 16, 2025
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will understand: - the pathophysiology, epidemiological relevance, clinical course, investigation techniques, and treatment concepts for the main esophageal, gastric, biliary, pancreatic, intestinal, and hepatic diseases; - the main causes, presentation, diagnostic methods, prognosis, and various therapeutic measures of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, and will be able to hypothesize the location based on the clinical findings and presentation; - the pathophysiology, clinical symptoms, investigation techniques, and treatment concepts for malabsorption syndromes; - the clinical symptoms, investigation techniques, and treatment concepts for intestinal and liver tumors.
Course contents
Lesson Contents:
- Constipation
- Diverticular Disease
- Microscopic Colitis
- Miscellaneous Colitis
- Clostridium difficile Colitis
- Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea
Readings/Bibliography
Manuale di Gastroenterologia - Unigastro. edizione 2022-2025. Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana.
Teaching methods
The teaching methods used to support the learning process and achieve the course's objectives include lectures and presentations and discussions of clinical cases, both in person and online. A problem-solving approach is also used, identifying a specific clinical problem within the digestive system pathologies covered in the course and identifying its solution.
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Barbara