05118 - CLINICA MEDICA E TERAPIA MEDICA (AK-D)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student possesses:

- the appropriate clinical reasoning skills to analyze and solve the most common and relevant clinical issues of medical interest;

- the ability to properly apply the methodologies to detect clinical, functional and laboratory findings, critically interpreting them from the point of view of pathophysiology, diagnosis and prognosis, and the ability to evaluate cost / benefit ratios in the choice of diagnostic procedures ;

- the ability to analyze and solve clinical medical problems by assessing the relationship between benefits, risks and costs in the light of the principles of medicine based on evidence and diagnostic and therapeutic appropriateness;

-the ability to correctly set up a therapeutic program within the most common and relevant clinical medical charts, knowing how to make choices based on the principles of evidence-based medicine.

Course contents

The lesson cycle will take place through the presentation of complex clinical cases ranging from the onset of disease, the collection of anamnestic data, comorbidity assessment, decision-making diagnostic framework, therapeutic program and treatment outcomes both in terms of clinical efficacy and possible effects side.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Acute liver failure
• Cholestatic Liver Diseases
• Extra-hepatic manifestations in HCV infection
• Lupus
• Spondylitis and arthritis
• Vasculitis

Readings/Bibliography

Harrison's: Principles of Internal Medicine, Mc Graw Hill

Cecil: Textbook of Medicine, Saunders

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with interactive discussion

Assessment methods

Oral examination with discussion of a clinical case

Teaching tools

Lesson slides

Office hours

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