Medicine and Surgery

Main Objectives The course aims at providing students with theoretical and practical knowledge needed to identify main diseases of urinary and genital tract and provide evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy. Expected outcomes: competent and critical knowledge of signs, symptoms, diagnostics and therapy of diseases of urinary and genital tract. Traditional lessons will allow students to properly identify and diagnose main diseases of urinary and genital tract. Practical lessons will provide students with clinical skills needed to understand signs, symptoms and diagnostics of urinary and genital tract diseases. Specific objectives Knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability of understanding etiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, genetics and clinical aspects of main urinary and genital tract diseases, including gender differences. To identify an adequate clinical approach to patients with genitourinary pathologies, to correlate genitourinary symptoms and signs to histopathological characteristics, to understand and correlate histology reports to genitourinary signs and symptoms Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies understanding analytical correlation of clinical signs, symptoms and functional abnormalities with urinary and genital pathophysiology, risk- and cost effectiveness-based selection of urinary and genital diagnostic work-up, to recognize and evaluate diagnostic and interventional uroradiology and the basic principles of radiotherapy, to be familiar with the current application of genitourinary algorithms, to assess the effectiveness and safety of medical therapy for genitourinary pathologies with a particular overview on the basic principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, to formulate a differential diagnosis of genitourinary pathologies according to different clinical signs and symptoms, understand main urinary and genital tract surgery procedures. Making judgment: passing the exam implies the ability of appropriately judging and putting in context medical history, signs and symptoms for appropriate diagnostic work-up and therapy. Communication skills: passing the exam implies mastering the ability to expose clinical reasoning and decision-making from signs and symptoms collection to appropriate diagnosis and therapy. Learning skills: passing the exam implies mastering the ability to learn the rational basis of differential diagnosis.