Medicine and Surgery

Main Objectives The course aims at providing students with theoretical and practical knowledge needed to identify main cardiovascular diseases and provide evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy. Expected outcomes: competent and critical knowledge of signs, symptoms, diagnostics and therapy of cardiovascular diseases. Traditional lessons will allow students to properly identify and diagnose main cardiovascular diseases. Practical lessons will provide students with clinical skills needed to understand signs, symptoms and diagnostics of heart diseases. Specific objectives Knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability of understanding etiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, genetics and clinical aspects of main cardiovascular diseases, including gender differences. Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies understanding analytical correlation of clinical signs, symptoms and functional abnormalities with cardiovascular pathophysiology, risk- and cost effectiveness-based selection of cardiovascular diagnostic work-up, interpretation of ECG, biochemical diagnostic tools and imaging of the cardiovascular system, general concepts of cardiovascular pathology, cardiovascular drugs and therapeutic indications according to main European guidelines, non-pharmacological treatment of cardiovascular diseases and main vascular and cardiac 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 in cardiovascular medicine.