Medicine and Surgery

1. introduction to rheumatology: epidemiology of rheumatological diseases, semeiotic, main laboratory and instrumental examinations 2. rheumatoid arthritis: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics, clinimetrics and therapeutic strategies 3. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics, clinimetry and therapeutic strategies 4. Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome: etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics, principles of pharmacological therapy 5. Sjogren's syndrome: etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics, principles of pharmacological therapy 6. IgG4 disease: etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and anatomo-pathological diagnostics, differential diagnosis 7. Sysetmic sclerosis: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics, principles of pharmacological therapy 8. Inflammatory myopathies: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and anatomo-pathological diagnostics, differential diagnosis 9. Polymyalgia rheumatica: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics, principles of pharmacological therapy 10. autoinflammatory diseases and juvenile idiopathic arthritis: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory diagnostics and hints of therapy 11. Fibromyalgia: aetiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, therapeutic strategies (pharmacological and non-pharmacological approach) 12. Biotechonolgical and target synthetic drugs in rheumatology 13. Treatment of rheumatic diseased in women in childbearing age

basic knowledge of biology, immunology, anatomy and physiology

it is necessary to attend 70% of the lessons

A mark of no less than 18/30 is required to pass the examination. The questions will focus on the recognition of pathogenetic, clinical, laboratory, radiological, histopathological, and treatment hints on pathologies of the syllabus; theoretical and practical knowledge, reasoning and communication skills will be assessed. To obtain a mark of 30/30 cum laude, the student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired an excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them together in a logical and coherent manner. The final mark will be the arithmetic mean of the marks obtained in the individual subjects of the integrated course.

classroom teaching, discussion of clinical cases, simulation of clinical cases