Medicine and Surgery

Clinical reasoning, diagnostic methodology, and differential diagnosis. Patient-oriented and not disease-oriented approach. Patient- and family-doctor relation and communication skills. Prognosis and end-stage disease. Management of cardiovascular risk factors, cardiovascular diseases and heart failure, primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention. Approach to the patient with acute and chronic respiratory diseases. Management of drug therapy in Diabetic patients. Approach to the patient with gastro-enterological diseases. Internal medicine-relevant endocrinology, hematology, and oncology diseases. Presentation of diverse case records that occurred in the Internal Medicine ward or taken from the literature.

Knowledge of organ-specific diseases and pharmacology.

Harrison's Internal Medicine. 20ma edizione. Guidelines for hearth failure, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, atrial fibrillation, pulmonary embolism, diabetes, and COPD Slide presentations are available on the platform.

Mandatory

Interactive discussion of a case-record, with particular reference to guidelines-based therapy.