Knowledge of Clinical Pathology is an important point necessary to interpret lab tests and clinical data useful for the diagnosis and follow-up of the disease.
Knowledge of concepts of general clinical pathology: precision, accuracy, diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, methodological sensitivity and specificity, positive and negative predictive values, normality range, decision levels). Knowledge of the main analytical tests for inflammatory, necrotic and neoplastic diseases
Frontal classroom lectures, with any possible interaction with the students
General clinical pathology: precision, accuracy, diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, methodological sensitivity and specificity, positive and negative predictive values, normality range, decision levels.
Specific clinical pathology: Markers of inflammation (acute phase proteins and leukocytosis) necrosis markers, tumoral markers.
Lecture notes will be available on Aulaweb
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
TOMMASO REGESTA (President)
NICOLA TRAVERSO (President)
MANRICO BALBI
SUSANNA PENCO
GIAN MARCO ROSA
FLAVIO SCARANO
DOMENICO PALOMBO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
March 2019
The exam is conducted with test made by questions with multiple-choice answers. At least 20 questions will be proposed to the students. No penalties are applied for incorrect answers or for non-completed fields. Candidates have 40 minutes to complete the elaborate.
At least 4 possible answers will be suggested, only one of which is valid. The valid answer is the best and more complete among the suggested answers. The teacher may evaluate partially non-optimal answers, if they are conceptually correct, even if incomplete.
Contact by e-mail : paola.vacca@unige.it
