70994 - Eco-assisted Interventional Procedures in Internal Medicine and Hepato-Oncology

Learning outcomes

Students will become able to recognize a condition of normality or of gross abnormality in various upper abdominal disease, knowing how to approach the use of an ultrasound scanner. They will lear the principles, indications, modality of safe perfomance and expected outcomes of major ultrasound guided interventional procedures.

Course contents

Corso Elettivo 2018-2019:

"ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AND LIVER ONCOLOGY"

Prof. Fabio Piscaglia, Dr. Alessando Granito, Prof. Luigi Bolondi.

 

MAX 100 ATTENDEES

 

Course Dates 2019:

Monday 28 January(h 12-19)

Tuesday 29 January (h 13-19),

Wednesday 30 January (h 13-19)

Monday 4 February (h 13-19) 

 

 

Location

Lectures: Aula Magna Nuove Patologie – Pad 5.

Hands-on training: Medicina Interna Bolondi – Floor 3, Pavillion 2, S.Orsola Malpighi

Attendance to the entire course is compulsory. The pass certificate will be released after passing of the final test and multiple choice quizzes at the end of the course.

 

The programs is integrated of 3 intermingled didactic courses held by prof. F. Piscaglia, dr. A. Granito and Prof. L. Bolondi.

The course will be entirely held in Italian

Please check the italian version for the program

 

Readings/Bibliography

The recommended Text Book is the EFSUMB European Course Book in Ultrasound, which be dowloaded for free from the www.efsumb.org website either in the extended full version or in the Student Edition. The extended version also be purchased online in a printed colour figure version.

Books in Italian.
Three volumes book: Ecografia Clinica, curatori Busillacchi Rapaccini, Idelson Gnocchi Editore, Napoli
or
Manuale Italiano di Ecografia Interventistica, curatori Schiavone-Romano, Antonio Delfino Editore, Roma

Teaching methods

1. Traditional lectures
2. Practical demonstrations in the lecture halls perfomed by the teacher and projected on the large screen with the use of a video beamer
3. Hands on practical training in small groups on ultrasound scanners with the opportunity to personally attempt to perform and ultrasonography under the supervision of tutors

Approximately 80% of the course will be held with the method reported under point 1, 10% as in point 2 and 10% as in point 3

Assessment methods

The assessment will be performed through a multiple choice test at the end of the course.

Teaching tools

The course will include traditional lectures with the use of computer and a videobeamer to project slides, but also an ultrasound scanner will be connected to project images during demonstrations.
Practical hand-on sessions are also planned during which the students will become acquainted with conventional ultrasound expoliting the opportunity to visualize organs in the abdomen and neck personally under the supervision of a tutor.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Piscaglia