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 blood and blood count, inflammatory, necrotic and neoplastic diseases.
Frontal classroom lectures. The course consists of 10 hours of training activities, lectures on the topics of the program. It is required at least 75% of the hours of frontal lectures.
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: Blood and blood count; markers of inflammation (acute phase proteins and leukocytosis); cell and tissue damage markers; tumoral markers; renal function markers; lipidic and glucidic metabolism markers.
Lecture notes will be available on Aulaweb.
Textbooks for consultation: Medicina di laboratorio (Federici G, McGraw-Hill); Interpretazione clinica degli esami di laboratorio (Widmann, McGraw-Hill); Basic Pathology (Robbins, Saunders)
Ricevimento: By appointment by email: annalisa.furfaro@unige.it
ANNA LISA FURFARO (President)
SUSANNA PENCO
GIOVANNI PRATESI
GIAN MARCO ROSA
ANTONIO SALSANO
March 2021
Oral test
The assessment takes place through the final exam which aims to ensure the effective acquisition by the student of the expected learning outcomes.
In order to pass the exam the student must respond correctly to three questions and must demonstrate that: know the principal topics, be able to reason by connecting the various topics, demonstrate ability to transverse and critically deal with the required arguments, adoption of appropriate terminology
