Medicine and Surgery

General Objectives of the Integrated Course To acquire the ability to analyze and to resolve the clinical problems of internistic, surgical and oncologic order, estimating the relationships between benefits, risks and costs, also in the light of the principles of the medicine based on the evidence; to develop the ability to clinical reasoning fitted to analyze and to resolve the most common and important clinical problems, of medical surgical and oncologic interest, and the ability to estimate epidemiological data and to know their use with the aim of the promotion of the health and of the prevention of the diseases in the single ones as well as in the communities; to acquire the ability and the sensibility in order to insert the specialist problems in a wider vision of the general state of health of the single person and of its general need of well-being, and the ability to integrate, in a total and unitary appraisal of the general state of health of the single adult and old individual, symptoms, signs and structural and functional alterations of the single organs and systems, combining them under the preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative profile. Specific objectives of the Integrated course Knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability to analyze and to resolve the clinical problems of internistic, surgical and oncologic order, estimating the relationships between benefits, risks and costs, also in the light of the principles of the medicine based on the evidence. Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability to clinical reasoning fitted to analyze and to resolve the most common and important clinical problems, of medical surgical and oncologic interest, and the ability to estimate epidemiological data and to know their use with the aim of the promotion of the health and of the prevention of the diseases in the single ones as well as in the communities. Making judgment: passing the exam implies the ability and the sensibility in order to insert the specialist problems in a wider vision of the general state of health of the single person and of its general need of well-being, and the ability to integrate, in a total and unitary appraisal of the general state of health of the single adult and old individual, symptoms, signs and structural and functional alterations of the single organs and systems, combining them under the preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative profile. Communication skills: passing the exam implies mastering the ability to expose clinical reasoning and decision-making from signs and symptoms collection to appropriate diagnosis, therapy, prevention and rehabilitation. Learning skills: passing the exam implies mastering the ability to learn the rational basis of differential diagnosis in cardiovascular medicine.