OVERVIEW

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal classroom lectures, with any possible interaction with the students

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes will be available on Aulaweb

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANNALISA FURFARO (President)

SUSANNA PENCO

GIAN MARCO ROSA

ANTONIO SALSANO

DOMENICO PALOMBO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

March 2020

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

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.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

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.

Exam schedule

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