OVERVIEW

The course of Clinical Pathology deals with the study of the general concepts of Clinical Pathology

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Provide the students with the fundamental elements allowing the evaluation and meaning of the laboratory examinations

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Provide the students with the knowledge necessary to understand the concepts of general clinical pathology so that they can critically interpret the values the clinical laboratory provides

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, with any possible dialectic interactions with the students

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

General clinical pathology: accuracy, precision, diagnostic sensibility and sensitivity, positive and negative predictive values, ROC curve, mention of quality control, methodological specificity and sensitivity.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes will be available for the students on Aulaweb. Not compulsory support book: Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, Elsevier

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GILBERTO FILACI (President)

GIUSEPPE MURDACA (President)

ALESSIO NENCIONI (President)

ALDO PENDE (President)

LIVIA PISCIOTTA (President)

MASSIMO CASU

FABIO FERRANDO

ROBERTA GONELLA

GIOVANNA LEONCINI

FABRIZIO MONTECUCCO

MICHELE MUSSAP

SIMONE NEGRINI

LUCIANO CARLO OTTONELLO

ANTONIETTA PIANA

ROBERTO PONTREMOLI

MAURIZIO SETTI

FRANCESCO TORRE

NICOLA TRAVERSO

GABRIELE ZOPPOLI

GIORGIO LUCIANO VIVIANI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

March 2017

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

oral examination

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Each student will be examined about the meaning of a group of laboratory analyses, regarding a defined disease. The knowledge and the definitions of the basic elements must be known in order to consider the examination approved

Exam schedule