OVERVIEW

The course of Clinical Pathology 2 examines the study of some of the main disease markers that can be measured in a clinical laboratory

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Provide the students with the fundamental elements about some of the main classes of diseases markers measurable in a clinical laboratory

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Provide the students with the fundamental elements about some of the main classes of diseases markers (e.g. inflammation markers, cell damage markers, tumour markers) measurable in a clinical laboratory

The students will have to be able to: remember the reference ranges of the tests, understand the meaning of values under or over the reference range, know the cases where each test is indicated.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, with any possible dialectic interactions with the students

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Inflammation markers. Cell damage markers. Renal function markers. Tumour markers. Lipidic and glucidic metabolism markers

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes will be available for the students on Aulaweb. Not compulsory support book: Widmann: Interpretazione clinica degli esami di laboratorio, McGrow Hill

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

paolo CARLIER

ANNALISA FURFARO

ALESSANDRO POGGI

NICOLA TRAVERSO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

March 2019

Class schedule

CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Each students will be examined about one or two chapter of the program, with questions apt to evaluate his/her knowledge and his/her ability to connect different subject of the program. The knowledge and the definitions of the basic elements must be known in order to consider the examination approved.

The students will be examined about their critical interpretation of the values of the analytes object of the examination

Exam schedule