Medicine and Surgery

Main Objectives The course aims at providing students with theoretical and practical knowledge needed to identify main respiratory diseases and provide evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy. Expected outcomes: competent and critical knowledge of signs, symptoms, diagnostics and therapy of respiratory diseases. Traditional lessons will allow students to properly identify and diagnose main respiratory diseases. Practical lessons will provide students with clinical skills needed to understand signs, symptoms and diagnostics of respiratory diseases. Specific objectives Knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies the ability of understanding etiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, genetics and clinical aspects of main respiratory diseases, including gender differences. Applying knowledge and understanding: passing the exam implies understanding analytical correlation of clinical signs, symptoms and functional abnormalities with respiratory pathophysiology, risk- and cost effectiveness-based selection of respiratory disease diagnostic work-up, interpretation of blood gas analysis, pulmonary function tests, bronchoscopy, biochemical diagnostic tools and imaging of the respiratory system, general concepts of respiratory pathology, respiratory drugs and therapeutic indications according to main European guidelines, non-pharmacological treatment of respiratory diseases and main respiratory diseases 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. 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 in cardiovascular medicine.