The course of Internal Medicine includes lectures on topics of internal medicine character that can represent or complicating comorbid patients with orthopedic disorders. The course of skin and venereal diseases includes lectures on topics related to the structure of the skin and major skin diseases. The course of medical-surgical rehabilitation provides an introductory lesson and lessons on neurological rehabilitation, cardio-respiratory and post-surgical.
Acquire knowledge of internal medicine with particular regard to metabolic diseases (such as diabetes, vascular arterial and venous). Knowing the major skin diseases, especially related to food intolerance, allergies, suffering from bedsores. Acquire skills on the principles of rehabilitation and re-education of patients in medical treatment and / or surgery.
The course aims to provide students with the basics in internal medicine with particular regard to metabolic diseases (such as diabetes), cardiovascular, respiratory, joint, and immunomediate diseases with joint involvement. The acquisition of knowledge in the field of allergic reactions is fundamental in the cultural growth of future orthopedic technicians.
At the end of the course, the student will be able to recognize the symptoms and / or signs of the most common pathologies of international interest and to critically evaluate the involvement of other health professionals (doctors, speech therapists, physiotherapists, etc.) in order to plan a appropriate diagnostic-therapeutic procedure. The extension of internal knowledge will allow the design of orthopedic aids most appropriate to the individual case, even with materials that reduce the risk of allergic or immune-mediated reactions.
The course provides for the holding of lectures.
The course of Internal Medicine includes the following lessons: Fever Arthralgias Heart failure Diabetes mellitus Chest pain Syncope / fainting High blood pressure Allergic reactions Dyspnea Renal failure The course of skin and venereal diseases includes the following lessons: ANATOMY OF THE SKIN Macroscopic and microscopic characters of the skin. The pilosebaceous units: the hair; the sebaceous gland; the apocrine sweat gland. The eccrine sweat glands. The apparatus nail Vascularization of the skin. Innervation of the skin. FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN INJURIES ELEMENTARY primitive elementary lesions. Secondary basic lesions. pathognomonic elementary lesions. DERMATOSIS eczematose atopic dermatitis Irritant contact dermatitis (DIC) Allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) DERMATOSIS VIRAL Herpes simplex and zoster common warts molluscum contagiosum parasitosis Scabies pediculosis phthiriasis DERMATOSIS BACTERIA bullous impetigo superficial and deep pyoderma MYCOSIS SKIN immune-mediated diseases Psoriasis Lichen ruber planus Urticaria vasculitis Kaposi's disease erythema nodosum SKIN CANCER Basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer Melanoma The course of Medical and Surgical Rehabilitation includes the following lessons: introduction to rehabilitation neurological rehabilitation: - neuronal plasticity - Introduction to diseases cardio-respiratory rehabilitation post abdominal surgery rehabilitation post orthopedic surgery rehabilitation: - prostheses - synthesis - arthroscopy
No specific text is recommended. The slides of the lessons are sufficient
Ricevimento: The student can contact the teacher by email at: giuseppe.murdaca@unige.it
LAURA MORI (President)
EMANUELE CLAUDIO COZZANI
GIUSEPPE MURDACA (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
The lessons were held in the first semester of the second year of the course from the month of October and ending in December.
Oral
The student must demonstrate that he / she has understood the etiopathogenetic bases and the diagnostic / therapeutic procedure of the described pathologies. The oral examination allows to evaluate the basic knowledge of the student of the various diseases described.
No additional special activities are planned.
