Medicine and Surgery

Main teaching objectives: By the end of the course the student must know: - how to make a correct diagnosis and to give instructions about the treatment of orthopaedic and traumatological diseases - the therapeutic, medical, surgical and rehabilitative possibilities of the main orthopaedic and traumatological pathologies - the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations (both symptoms and signs), diagnostic laboratory tests and imaging techniques, and therapeutic strategies of rheumatic diseases not included in the Applied Pathology IV course: osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, infectious arthritis, osteoporosis, Paget’s disease of bone. - Recognize the main rheumatic, orthopaedic and traumatological diseases, also knowing the relative therapeutic, surgical and rehabilitative plans. Understand the principles of rehabilitation and make a decision on when to refer a patient to a rehabilitation specialist or rehabilitation centre.