Medicine and Surgery

General Objectives The understanding of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the most common health problems in the newborn, the infant and the teenager as far as concerns the knowledge of the general physician. The capability to recognize the clinical conditions that require the competency of a specialist in Pediatrics and the ability to plan the basic medical interventions for the most common and serious health problems in pediatric age. Specific objectives Knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability of understanding prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the most common health problems in the newborn, the infant and the teenager as far as concerns the knowledge of the general physician. Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies understanding analytical correlation of clinical signs, symptoms and functional abnormalities with pediatric pathophysiology, risk- and cost effectiveness-based selection, and the ability to plan the basic medical interventions for the most common and serious health problems in pediatric age according to main European guidelines, non-pharmacological treatment of pediatrics diseases and main pediatric 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, having capability to recognize the clinical conditions that require the competency of a specialist in Pediatrics. 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.