Traslational Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery (clerkship)
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
Practical activities will be used, through simulation, through the attendance in the ward or attendance of real cardiac or vascular surgery procedures in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the cardiovascular clerkship, students should be able to: - Evaluate patients with heart failure: history, clinical examination, and EKG - Perform and evaluate cardiopulmonary exercise test - Evaluate patients with acute chest pain - Evaluate patients with acute dyspnea - Monitor patients with acute myocardial infarction - Assess and manage pre- and postoperatively patients candidate to cardiac surgery, mainly adult patients undergoing coronary, valve ad aorta surgery. Similarly, to assess and manage patients candidate to vascular surgery because affected by carotid, aortic, visceral, renal, iliac, and femoro-distal diseases, and superficial and deep venous lesions.
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 Translational Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery 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).
Furthermore students must review in detail the program of System Diseases 1, in particular the modules of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diagnostic Imaging, and the programs of Pharmacology 1 and 2.
Furthermore students must review in detail the program of System Diseases 1, in particular the modules of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diagnostic Imaging, and the programs of Pharmacology 1 and 2.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students' evaluation is assessed with three oral examinations focused on the topics developed during the course (one for Cardiovascular Diseases, one for Cardiac Surgery and one for Vascular Surgery). The final mark is the average of the marks obtained in the three oral examinations weighted for the number of credits of each discipline.
The exam is deemed to be passed successfully if the final grade is equal to or higher than 18/30. In the event of a full grade (30/30) honors (lode) may be granted with the consent of all the professors.
ATTENDANCE:
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.
The exam is deemed to be passed successfully if the final grade is equal to or higher than 18/30. In the event of a full grade (30/30) honors (lode) may be granted with the consent of all the professors.
ATTENDANCE:
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. Clinical approach to patients with heart failure: history, clinical examination, and ECG, patients with acute chest pain, patients with acute dyspnea. Perform and evaluate cardiopulmonary exercise test. Monitor patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Teaching methods
ìClinical cases, Case studies and Laboratory skills. 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 Higher Education, 2018
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
Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Single Volume, D. Mann, D. Zipes, P. Libby, R. Bonow, 10th ed., Saunders, 2015
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
Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Single Volume, D. Mann, D. Zipes, P. Libby, R. Bonow, 10th ed., Saunders, 2015
Cardiac surgery
Course syllabus
Cardiac surgery and vascular surgery. Assess and manage pre- and postoperatively patients candidate to cardiac surgery, mainly adult patients undergoing coronary, valve ad aorta surgery. Similarly, to assess and manage patients candidate to vascular surgery because affected by carotid, aortic, visceral, renal, iliac, and femoro-distal diseases, and superficial and deep venous lesions.
Teaching methods
Clinical cases, Case studies and Laboratory skills. 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
Johns Hopkins Textbook of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2014
Vascular surgery
Course syllabus
Cardiac surgery and vascular surgery. Assess and manage pre- and postoperatively patients candidate to cardiac surgery, mainly adult patients undergoing coronary, valve ad aorta surgery. Similarly, to assess and manage patients candidate to vascular surgery because affected by carotid, aortic, visceral, renal, iliac, and femoro-distal diseases, and superficial and deep venous lesions.
Teaching methods
Clinical cases, Case studies and Laboratory skills. 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
Rutherfords' Vascular Surgery, 8th edition, Elsevier, 2014
Cardiac surgery
MED/23 - HEART SURGERY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professor:
Parolari Alessandro
Cardiovascular diseases
MED/11 - CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professor:
Agostoni Piergiuseppe
Vascular surgery
MED/22 - VASCULAR SURGERY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professors:
Nano Giovanni, Trimarchi Santi
Shifts:
Group 1
Professor:
Nano GiovanniGroup 2
Professor:
Trimarchi SantiEducational website(s)