Medicine and Surgery

The course, structured teaching methodology focused on problems (problem-based learning and problem solving), is organized in multidisciplinary clinical seminars focused processing with diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm students clinical situations emblematic treated in parallel in the courses of Integrated various disorders. The purpose of the course is to make the student able to critically evaluate, through a correct clinical reasoning, clinical signs and symptoms correlating the pathogenesis of diseases of the main object of teaching Integrated Pathology. The student must acquire the ability to establish a differential diagnosis and to build a diagnostic and treatment algorithm necessary for the resolution of a particular clinical picture. The ultimate goal of the course is to enable students to acquire the behavior protocols that introduce the practice of medicine and accompany him in his future career. The student must also know the elements lexical and grammatical and syntactical base of the tongue in scientific medical texts; able to recognize and apply this knowledge to the critical reading of various types of paper from the medical literature, also of historical type and bioethics, with a focus on "Evidence Based Medicine"; apply the methods "self study" the most effective to develop and consolidate their lexical and grammatical knowledge in the medical field and to monitor progress; applying reading techniques that will lead to an efficient speed in the information decoding; learn literature search methods to formulate relevant questions to studies and seek answers through the use of Medline and the Internet; be aware of the essential role of literature cultural and professional updating of the physician; be aware of the importance of developing "reading habits" in permanent training.