INTERNAL MEDICINE AND GENERAL SURGERY III Single channel

Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: VITO D'ANDREA

Module 1: INTERNAL MEDICINE

Activity type
Clinica generale medica e chirurgica, Fisiopatologia, metodologia clinica, propedeutica clinica e sistematica medico-chirurgica, Attività formative affini o integrative, Tirocini formativi e di orientamento
SSD
MED/18, MED/18, MED/18, MED/18
Year
N/D
Semester
N/D
CFU
4
Hours distribution
36 classroom hours, 25 others hours
Lecturers
VITO D'ANDREA
LAURA GIACOMELLI
MASSIMO VERGINE
MARIA IDA AMABILE
LUDOVICO MUZII
ALESSANDRO SCIARRA
STEFANO SALCICCIA
PIETRO PERSIANI
MARIA IRENE BELLINI
NICOLA DI LORENZO
ALESSANDRO DE LUCA
ANNA PAOLA MASSETTI

Module 2: GENERAL SURGERY

Activity type
Clinica generale medica e chirurgica, Medicina delle attività motorie e del benessere, Tirocini formativi e di orientamento
SSD
MED/09, MED/09, MED/09
Year
N/D
Semester
N/D
CFU
3
Hours distribution
24 classroom hours, 25 others hours
Lecturers
LORENZO LOFFREDO
GREGORINO PAONE
MAURIZIO MUSCARITOLI
DANIELE PASTORI
FABIO MIDULLA
MAURIZIO MARTELLI
ROBERTO CANGEMI
ANDREA TRUINI
ALESSIO MOLFINO

Learning outcomes

The Integrated Course of Internal Medicine and General Surgery 3 includes Medical Clinic and General Surgical Clinic and is taught in the second semester of the sixth year of the Master's Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery.
At the end of the sixth year and upon completion of the Integrated Course, students will have learned to study patients' clinical cases, to formulate diagnostic questions, and to propose the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to solve clinical cases.

Prerequisites

To successfully attend the Integrated Course of Internal Medicine and General Surgery 3, students must have passed the exams of the first four years of the Master's Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery.

Programme

Ventral hernias and laparocele.
Surgical Clinic of the Thyroid, Parathyroids, and Adrenal Gland.
Surgical Clinic of the Breast.
Surgical Clinic of the Esophagus.
Surgical Clinic of the Diaphragm.
Surgical Clinic of the Stomach, Duodenum, and Small Intestine.
Surgical Clinic of the Colon, Rectum, Anorectal Canal, and Sacrococcygeal Region.
Surgical Clinic of the Liver, Bile Ducts, and Pancreas.
Surgical Clinic of the Spleen and Retroperitoneum.
Surgical Clinic of Obesity.

Books

Students can study the texts of their choice, considering that sources of knowledge are scientific articles published in international scientific journals with impact factor and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

Bibliography

Module: INTERNAL MEDICINE
N/D
Module: GENERAL SURGERY
N/D

Lessons mode

The Integrated Course takes place in the classroom, in person, with lectures on Internal Medicine and General Surgery, as well as the presentation of clinical cases.

Frequency

Students attend the Integrated Course in person and certify their presence by signing the attendance sheets during the lesson.

Exam mode

The exam for Internal Medicine and General Surgery 3 is a final oral examination with the professors of the Integrated Course.
Students are examined by a professor of Internal Medicine and a professor of General Surgery in two separate sessions.
The final grade is the average of the two scores.

Example exam questions

Clinical Case.
74-year-old woman, retired.
Physiological history: normal lifestyle habits, normal eater, does not drink or smoke. Regular urination, alternating bowel movements for several years, with recent diarrheal tendency.
Remote medical history: recalls common childhood rashes.
Current medical history: the patient presented to the emergency room due to sudden onset of acute pain in the right iliac fossa, associated with nausea and food vomiting, fever (38.5°C), preceded by a diarrheal episode.
Physical examination: patient appears in distress, abdomen distended, tender, guarded.
X-ray of the abdomen shows multiple hydro-aeric levels.
The student is asked to complete the patient's medical history and physical examination, formulate the diagnostic question, and propose the diagnostic and therapeutic approach.

Arguments

Module: INTERNAL MEDICINE
N/D
Module: GENERAL SURGERY
N/D

Sustainability goals

  • Goal4
  • Goal7
  • Goal16
  • Academic year2026/2027
  • Degree program to which the course belongsMedicine and Surgery "B" - Roma Azienda Policlinico Umberto I
  • Languageita
  • CFU7 CFU, distributed among 2 integrated didactic modules
  • Total duration110 hours