- Docente: Nicola Baldini
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)
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from Nov 25, 2025 to Dec 02, 2025
Learning outcomes
1. Diagnostic tools for musculoskeletal diseases.
2. Pathophysiology and therapy of bone repair.
3. Diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal infections.
4. Bone implants.
Course contents
Diagnosis of orthopaedic diseases.
Repair and regeneration of skeletal tissues. Orthobiological therapies.
Skeletal infections: osteomyelites, osteoarthrites, spondilytes.
Biomaterials and implantable devices in orthopaedics and traumatology.
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.
Readings/Bibliography
Mario Campanacci: Clinica Ortopedica. Patron 1989.
Peter G. Bullough: Atlas of Orthopaedic Pathology. JB Lippincott Co. 2008.
Teaching methods
Lectures with discussion of clinical cases.
Assessment methods
Oral test.
Office hours
See the website of Nicola Baldini
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.