The course of Clinical Pathology deals with the study of the general concepts of Clinical Pathology
Provide the students with the fundamental elements allowing the evaluation and meaning of the laboratory examinations
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. The students must remember the definitions of the general concepts and the normal range of the main laboratory tests. The students must know the use and the limitations of the main laboratory tests. The students must acquire the ability to choose the tests useful in various pathological conditions.
Lectures, with any possible dialectic interactions with the students
General clinical pathology: accuracy, precision, diagnostic sensibility and sensitivity, positive and negative predictive values, ROC curve, mention of quality control, methodological specificity and sensitivity. Some groups of laboratoy tests will be presentes to the students. Some clinical cases will be presented to the students
Lecture notes will be available for the students on Aulaweb. Not compulsory support book: Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, Elsevier. An Internal Medicine Textbook (Harrison or Cecil) are sufficient for the knowledge in pathophysiology and laboratory medicine
Ricevimento: By appointment by email: ntravers@medicina.unige.it o Nicola.Traverso@unige.it ADDRESS DIMES, General Pathology Section, Via Leon Battista Alberti 2, 16132, Genova
Ricevimento: Upon request at the following e-mail address: gfilaci@unige.it
Ricevimento: The interview with the teacher can be obtained by email (daniela.fenoglio@unige.it) or by phone (010 / 3533027-3029). The teacher's studio is located in the Directorate of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Research (CEBR) - Viale Benedetto XV, 7 -16132 Genova
GILBERTO FILACI (President)
ALESSIO NENCIONI (President)
FRANCESCO TORRE (President)
MASSIMO CASU
FABIO FERRANDO
ROBERTA GONELLA
GIOVANNA LEONCINI
FABRIZIO MONTECUCCO
GIUSEPPE MURDACA
SIMONE NEGRINI
LUCIANO CARLO OTTONELLO
MAURIZIO SETTI
NICOLA TRAVERSO
GABRIELE ZOPPOLI
ALDO PENDE (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
March 2019
oral examination
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. The students can be asked to interpret values of clinical analyses in a critical manner, integrated to the clinical conditions.
