Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine 2 (Clerkship)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the practical activities, students should be able to: -- examine and interpret the results of laboratory assessment (interpretation of a full blood count, look at a peripheral blood or bone marrow smear) - observe the execution of a bone marrow aspirate and know the main diseases of rheumatological interest of an inflammatory and degenerative nature; the main rheumatological semeiotic manoeuvres and laboratory tests useful in the study of rheumatological pathologies;
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
Course syllabus
Hematology: clinical approach to bleeding syndromes, thrombotic disorders and thrombotic microangiopathies, hemoglobinopathies, red cell disorders,
Examination of laboratory tests
Reumatology: clinical approch to reumathological diseases and main rheumatological semeiotic manoeuvres
Examination of laboratory tests
Reumatology: clinical approch to reumathological diseases and main rheumatological semeiotic manoeuvres
Prerequisites for admission
To take the Fundamental of Clinical Medicine 2 exam, students must have already passed all the exams of the first year (Fundamentals of Basic Sciences, Cells, Molecules and Genes , Histology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Fundamentals of biomedical imaging) and all the exams of second years (Functions 1 and 2, Microbiology, Genetics and Mechanisms of diseases
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
- Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology, 4th edition, 2013; Edited by Richard A. Watts, Philip G. Conaghan, Christopher Denton, Helen Foster, John Isaacs, and Ulf Müller-Ladner
- EULAR Textbook on Rheumatic Diseases, 3rd edition, 2018; edited by JWJ Bijlsma and E Hachulla, http://www.eular.org/index.cfm?framePage=/edu_textbook.cfm
- Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology, 4th edition, 2013; Edited by Richard A. Watts, Philip G. Conaghan, Christopher Denton, Helen Foster, John Isaacs, and Ulf Müller-Ladner
- EULAR Textbook on Rheumatic Diseases, 3rd edition, 2018; edited by JWJ Bijlsma and E Hachulla, http://www.eular.org/index.cfm?framePage=/edu_textbook.cfm
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students' assessment is based on an oral examination on the three subjects . The students must undergo all three examinations on the same day. Separate examinations on different days are seldom possible, and only due to availability of teachers or rooms.
The topics of examination are the ones outlined in the program below.
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 final mark is the weighted average of the three marks obtained in the oral examinations expressed out of 30, provided that each mark is above 18/30.
through SIFA is mandatory.
The topics of examination are the ones outlined in the program below.
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 final mark is the weighted average of the three marks obtained in the oral examinations expressed out of 30, provided that each mark is above 18/30.
through SIFA is mandatory.
MED/16 - RHEUMATOLOGY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professors:
Chighizola Cecilia Beatrice, Favalli Ennio Giulio, Gerosa Maria, Ingegnoli Francesca Anna, Ughi Nicola
Shifts:
Group 1
Professor:
Ughi NicolaProfessor(s)
Reception:
Wednesday, 16.00-18.00 (only by appointment to be made by email)
ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Piazza Cardinal Ferrari 1, 20122 Milano