General surgery

Course objectives

General Objectives of the Integrated Course To acquire the ability to analyze and to resolve the clinical problems of internistic, surgical, geriatric order and of clinical nutrition, estimating the relationships between benefits, risks and costs, also in the light of the principles of the evidence based medicine; To develop the ability to clinical reasoning adapted to analyze and to resolve the most common and important clinical problems, of medical, surgical, geriatric and of clinical nutrition interest, and the ability to valuate 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 and in the community; To acquire the ability and the sensibility in order to insert the specialist problems in a wider vision of the state of general health of the person and its requirements generates them of well-being, and the structural ability to integrate, in a total and unitary appraisal of the total state of health of the single adult and old individual, symptoms, signs and alterations and works them of the single organs and apparatuses, combining them under the diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation profile, as well as the gender perspective. 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, geriatric order and of clinical nutrition, estimating the relationships between benefits, risks and costs, also in the light of the principles of the evidence based medicine. Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability to clinical reasoning adapted to analyze and to resolve the most common and important clinical problems, of medical, surgical, geriatric and of clinical nutrition interest, and the ability to valuate 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 and in the community, 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 and the sensibility in order to insert the specialist problems in a wider vision of the state of general health of the person and its requirements generates them of well-being, and the structural ability to integrate, in a total and unitary appraisal of the total state of health of the single adult and old individual, symptoms, signs and alterations and works them of the single organs and apparatuses, combining them under the diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation profile, as well as the gender perspective. 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; mastering the the main skill for a good relationship between physicians and patients. Learning skills: passing the exam implies mastering the ability to learn the rational basis of differential diagnosis.

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PAOLO MERCANTINI Lecturers' profile
GIANFRANCO SILECCHIA Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
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Prerequisites
In order to understand the contents of the general surgery course and achieve the learning objectives, at the beginnings of the teaching activities the student must know the surgical semeiotic and the regulations of CDL.To pass the exams of the V year of curriculum
Books
Dionigi VII Edizione Edra casa editrice
Teaching mode
classroom lecture, clinical case discussion, video of minimally invasive procedures
Exam mode
Modality of the exam: oral. The student will obtain a note not less 18/30. To pass the exam of the integrated course it is mandatory to achieve a score not less than 18/30 for each module. The student should demonstarte a sufficient knowledge of the topics presented during the classroom. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude an excellent knowledge of all topics is required. Moreover the student should be able to connect the topics in a logical and coherent way. The dates of the exames are published on the CdS website
Bibliography
Guidelines management acute cholecystitis Tokyo 2018 Guidelines management acute cholecystitis WES 2020 Guidelines diagnosis of acute diverticulitis EAES Guidelines management acute diverticulitis EAES
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseMedicine and Surgery
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year6th year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDMED/18
  • CFU2