Medicine and Surgery

Main objectives Infectious Diseases traverse the usual boundaries by medical specialists. All organ systems may be involved and all physicians caring for patients may have to deal with infected patients. The format of the course was chosen with the intent that it would contain the necessary information to aid the practitioner in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Expected outcomes: competent and critical knowledge of signs, symptoms, diagnostics and therapy of infectious diseases. Traditional lessons will allow students to properly identify and diagnose main infectious diseases. Practical lessons will provide students with clinical skills needed to understand signs, symptoms and diagnostics of infectious diseases. Specific objectives Knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability of understanding etiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, genetics and clinical aspects of main infectious diseases. Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies understanding analytical correlation of clinical signs, symptoms and functional abnormalities with infectious diseases pathophysiology, risk- and cost effectiveness-based selection of infectious diseases diagnostic work-up, biochemical diagnostic tools and imaging of the infectious diseases, general concepts of infectious diseases pathology, infectious diseases drugs and therapeutic indications according to main European guidelines. 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 in infectious diseases