System Diseases 1 (clerkship)
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
Practical activities will be organized, through simulation or at the bedside in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the clerkship, students will have experienced: - clinical and epidemiological history taking - clinical examination of the thorax, abdomen, lymphnodes - laboratory diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia - laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis - laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection - laboratory diagnosis of viral hepatitis (HAV, HBV, HCV) - blood culturing - antibiogram interpretation and principles of antibiotic use - interpretation of vitro-immunological parameters in the management of HIV infection.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
To take the System Diseases 1 exam, students must have already passed all the exams of the first and second year (Fundamentals of Basic Sciences, Cells, Molecules and Genes 1 and 2, Human Body, Functions and Mechanisms of Diseases).
Assessment methods and Criteria
MODALITA ESAME
Student assessment is based on a combination of written and oral examinations. The written exam is a multiple choice test focused on the topics of the modules: Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology. Only students who successfully pass the written tests of all subjects (threshold 7/10) are allowed to take the oral examination, focused on the modules: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING, Cardiovascular Diseases, NEPHROLOGY.
The oral examination must be passed in the same session as the written examination. Examinations on two consecutive days are seldom possible depending upon the availability of teachers or rooms. The students must undergo both written and oral examination on the same day. If the student does not pass successfully the oral examination, the positive result at the written test is valid only within the same session.
The final mark is the weighted average of the marks obtained in the oral examinations.
Attendance is required to be allowed to take the exam. Unexcused absence is tolerated up to 34% of the course activities. University policy regarding excused illness is followed.
Registration to the exam through SIFA is mandatory.
Student assessment is based on a combination of written and oral examinations. The written exam is a multiple choice test focused on the topics of the modules: Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology. Only students who successfully pass the written tests of all subjects (threshold 7/10) are allowed to take the oral examination, focused on the modules: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING, Cardiovascular Diseases, NEPHROLOGY.
The oral examination must be passed in the same session as the written examination. Examinations on two consecutive days are seldom possible depending upon the availability of teachers or rooms. The students must undergo both written and oral examination on the same day. If the student does not pass successfully the oral examination, the positive result at the written test is valid only within the same session.
The final mark is the weighted average of the marks obtained in the oral examinations.
Attendance is required to be allowed to take the exam. Unexcused absence is tolerated up to 34% of the course activities. University policy regarding excused illness is followed.
Registration to the exam through SIFA is mandatory.
Cardiovascular diseases
Course syllabus
Cardiology. ECG: normal, Arrhythmias Ischemic heart disease
Clinical approach to Valvular heart disease , Pericarditis and endocarditis, Heart failure, Pulmonary hypertension
Diagnostic Cardiac and Cardiovascular imaging
Examination of laboratory tests
Clinical approach to Valvular heart disease , Pericarditis and endocarditis, Heart failure, Pulmonary hypertension
Diagnostic Cardiac and Cardiovascular imaging
Examination of laboratory tests
Teaching methods
Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2018 (also available as ebook in the digital library of the University of Milano http://www.sba.unimi.it/)
Goldman's Cecil Medicine L. Goldman, A. I. Schafer, 25th ed., Elsevier, 2015
Making Sense of Exercise Texting, R. B. Schoene, H. T. Robertson, CRC Press, 2019
Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Lynn S. Bickley
Goldman's Cecil Medicine L. Goldman, A. I. Schafer, 25th ed., Elsevier, 2015
Making Sense of Exercise Texting, R. B. Schoene, H. T. Robertson, CRC Press, 2019
Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Lynn S. Bickley
Nephrology
Course syllabus
Nephrology. Clinical approach to patients with urinary tract and renal infection, acute kidney injury / acute renal failure, chronic kidney disease, renal vascular diseases
Management of artificial kidney
Diagnostic kidney imaging
Examination of laboratory tests, analysis of the urinary sediment
Management of artificial kidney
Diagnostic kidney imaging
Examination of laboratory tests, analysis of the urinary sediment
Teaching methods
Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
Nephrology textbooks and resources:
Edinburgh Renal Education Pages Textbook. Free textbook available at http://www.edrep.org/pages/textbook.php
Robert W. Schrier. Manual of Nephrology. Wolters Kluwer Health, 2014
JOVE Clinical Skills - Digital library of the University of Milano
Edinburgh Renal Education Pages Textbook. Free textbook available at http://www.edrep.org/pages/textbook.php
Robert W. Schrier. Manual of Nephrology. Wolters Kluwer Health, 2014
JOVE Clinical Skills - Digital library of the University of Milano
Radiology
Course syllabus
Diagnostic Imaging. Sonography, Computerized Tomography - CT, Magnetic Resonance Imaging - MRI.
Teaching methods
Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
Essential of Radiology. F. A. Mettler. 3rd Edition. Elsevier Saunders. (e book)
Core Radiology. J. Mandell. Cambrige University Press. (ebook)
Core Radiology. J. Mandell. Cambrige University Press. (ebook)
Cardiovascular diseases
MED/11 - CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professor:
Agostoni Piergiuseppe
Nephrology
MED/14 - NEPHROLOGY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professors:
Cozzolino Mario Gennaro, Gallieni Maurizio Alberto
Shifts:
Group 1
Professor:
Gallieni Maurizio AlbertoGroup 2
Professor:
Cozzolino Mario GennaroGroup 3
Professor:
Cozzolino Mario Gennaro
Radiology
MED/36 - IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professors:
Messina Carmelo, Secchi Francesco
Shifts:
Group 1
Professor:
Secchi FrancescoGroup 2
Professor:
Messina CarmeloEducational website(s)
Professor(s)
Reception:
For an appointment please send an email
Nephrology and Dialysis Units of Sacco hospital or Fatebenefratelli hospital