Medicine and Surgery HT

Activity type

Clinica generale medica e chirurgica, Tirocini formativi e di orientamento

SSD

MED/09, MED/09

Year

6th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

4

Hours distribution

13 classroom hours, 75 others hours

Lecturers

STEFANIA BASILI
ROBERTO CANGEMI
OMBRETTA MARTINELLI
GIULIO FRANCESCO ROMITI
VALERIA RAPARELLI
PASQUALINO SIRIGNANO
ANNA RITA VESTRI

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

ING-INF/04

Year

6th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

3

Hours distribution

39 classroom hours

Lecturers

MARILENA VENDITTELLI

Activity type

Clinica generale medica e chirurgica, Tirocini formativi e di orientamento

SSD

MED/18, MED/18

Year

6th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

3

Hours distribution

13 classroom hours, 50 others hours

Lecturers

PAOLO SAPIENZA
MICHELANGELO MICCINI
PAOLO BRUZZONE
FABIO MELANDRO

At the end of the course, the student should:
- have acquired knowledge in the field of medicine and surgery, with particular reference to the applications of medical robotics
- have acquired the methodological foundations of medical robotics in medicine and surgery
- be able to define the diagnostic and therapeutic pathways of patients with internal medicine and surgical conditions, with attention to the applications of medical robotics
- know and be able to interpret instrumental diagnostic methods (radiological and laboratory) and their results, with attention to possible applications of medical robotics
- know the main fields of application of medical robotics in medicine and surgery, as well as future perspectives
- be able to interpret, through clinical reasoning, clinical scenarios involving patients with internal medicine and surgical conditions, with knowledge of the potential applications of medical robotics techniques
- have acquired the ability to critically and independently interpret the potential and limitations of medical robotics in the medical and surgical fields
- be able to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions related to the course topics, including to non-specialist audiences.

A basic knowledge of medicine, pharmacology and physioparthology is required.

Module: ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE
- The role of robotics in medicine: state of the art and future perspectives
- The diagnostic and therapeutic pathway of care for patients with complex clinical conditions , including potential applications of robotic techniques (clinical cases)
- Patients with vascular diseases: integrated medical-surgical approaches


Module: ROBOTICS IN SURGERY
Part 1: Foundations of Robotics
Kinematics of manipulators: representations of rigid body orientation; direct and inverse kinematics of robot manipulators; differential kinematics: analytic and geometric Jacobians.
Statics: transformations of forces.
Control: control system architectures; kinematic control laws (in joint or in task/Cartesian space).

Part 2: surgical robotics
Introduction: course outline and historical perspective; analysis of the main surgical functions: the engineer point of view; high level description of successful surgical systems.
Classification of robotic surgical systems.
Kinematic design of surgical robots.
Control: control of semi-autonomous systems; task control with Remote Center of Motion (RCM) constraint in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS); teleoperation; cooperative or “hands-on” systems; virtual fixtures for cooperative control.
Robot registration.
Technical description of the da Vinci surgical system.


Module: METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF MEDICAL ROBOTICS
Application of the most recent surgical advances in surgery (laparoscopy, robotic-assisted surgery, and endovascular) to provide the basis for the development of artificial intelligence, and virtual or augmented algorithms.
• Stomach cancer
• Colon cancer
• Cancer of adrenal glands
• Obstructive artery disease
• Aneurismatic artery disease

Module: ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, or similar textbook
- Literature Review (from MedLine)


Module: ROBOTICS IN SURGERY
Part 1: B. Siciliano, L. Villani, G. Oriolo, A. De Luca - Foundations of Robotics, Springer, September 2025

Part 2: Course materials provided by professor


Module: METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF MEDICAL ROBOTICS
Present international literature

Module: ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE
N/D
Module: ROBOTICS IN SURGERY
N/D
Module: METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF MEDICAL ROBOTICS
Recent articles from MedLine

Lectures, flipped clasrooms, training sessions, homework with class revision. To foster interaction with students during classroom lessons, digital platforms may be used to stimulate interactive presentations and lectures.

Mandatory, attendance tracking

Written open questions on clinical scenarios and cases, with short answers aimed at exploring clinical reasoning and potential areas of application of robotics in medicine and surgery; subsequent oral discussion of the essays.

- A 65-year-old man reports 6 months of weak urinary stream and one episode of macroscopic haematuria; digital rectal examination reveals a firm area and PSA is moderately elevated. Based on this presentation, list the differential diagnoses, immediate diagnostic steps and initial management priorities. Explore specific robotic applications that could be used in this case.

Module: ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE

• Lectures, Flipped Classroom (12,5 hour)
  • Books: Harrison's Internal Medicine or similar textbook


• Training sessions/Clinical Cases (75 hours)
  • Books: Harrison's Internal Medicine or similar textbook

• Robotics basics (manipulators kinematics, control architectures, kinematic control) [17 hours]
  • Books: B. Siciliano, L. Villani, G. Oriolo, A. De LucaFoundations of Robotics, Springer, September 2025


• Overview, analysis, classification, modeling, control, sensing of medical robotic systems [22 ore]
  • Books: Teaching material provided by the instructor