Medicine and Surgery - Roma Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea

PEDIATRICS Single channel

Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: PASQUALE PARISI

Module 1: Developmental neurology and psychiatry

Activity type: Discipline pediatriche
SSD: MED/39
Year: N/D
Semester: N/D
CFU: 1
Hours distribution: 13 classroom hours
Lecturers

Module 2: MEDICAL GENETICS

Activity type: Discipline pediatriche, Tirocini formativi e di orientamento
SSD: MED/38, MED/38
Year: 6th year
Semester: 1st semester
CFU: 4
Hours distribution: 39 classroom hours, 25 training hours
Lecturers: PASQUALE PARISI
GIOVANNI DI NARDO
ALESSANDRO FERRETTI

Module 3: Pediatric surgery

Activity type: Discipline pediatriche
SSD: MED/20
Year: 6th year
Semester: 1st semester
CFU: 1
Hours distribution: 13 classroom hours
Lecturers: DENIS COZZI

Module 4: GENERAL PEDIATRICS - NEONATOLOGY

Activity type: Discipline pediatriche
SSD: MED/03
Year: 6th year
Semester: 1st semester
CFU: 1
Hours distribution: 13 classroom hours
Lecturers: SIMONA PETRUCCI

Objectives

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.