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SCIENZE TECNICHE DIETETICHE

CODE 67579
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 1 cfu during the 6th year of 8745 MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA(LM-41) - GENOVA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/49
    LANGUAGE Italian
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
  • SEMESTER 1° Semester
    MODULES This unit is a module of:
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

    Clinical nutrition and the role of nutrition in the treatment medical and surgical disorders 

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    At the end of the course, the student must be able to:
    
    - Know the nutritional needs of the healthy person and of the sick individual
    
    -Evaluate the state of nutrition and diagnose malnutrition by defect or excess
    
    -Program a nutritional support and know the indications and contraindications of a complete enteral or parenteral feeding
    
    - Knowing when medical and / or surgical therapy should be combined with adequate diet therapy and what type of diet should be prescribed
    
    - Knowing how to stratify the patient's cardiovascular risk
    
    -Know how to treat hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia with adequate diet and oral medications available. Know the indications of the new PCSK-9 inhibitors

    TEACHING METHODS

    TEACHING in presence in MIXED MODE if the safety conditions are met.
    
    ON-LINE TEACHING in SYNCHRONOUS mode in the event of a pandemic emergency
    
    Availability of preparatory lessons provided to students in asynchronous mode for optional use.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Evaluation of the nutritional status
    
    Treatment of protein-energy malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies
    
    Artificial parenteral and enteral nutrition
    
    Diet therapy in internal pathologies, food allergies
    
    Nutritional therapy of obesity
    
    Hypercholesterolemia therapy
    
    Hypertriglyceridemia therapy

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    AA.VV.-Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. McGraw Hill (19th ed., 2015)
    
    LARN 2014
    
    Updated GUIDELINES and POSITION PAPERS of the Italian, European and international SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    DIEGO BAGNASCO (President)

    ANDREA DE MARIA (President)

    GIOVANNI PASSALACQUA (President)

    FULVIO BRAIDO

    MARCO CANEPA

    MANUELE FURNARI

    EDOARDO GIOVANNI GIANNINI

    ROBERTO MASSIMO LEMOLI

    DAVIDE CARLO MAGGI

    LIVIA PISCIOTTA

    ITALO PORTO

    ALBERTO SULLI

    FRANCESCA CHIARA VIAZZI

    ROBERTO PONTREMOLI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    October 2021

    Class schedule

    All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exam refers to all integrated course program and will take place in written form. The test consists of a multiple choice quiz series. The quizzes can be represented by short clinical cases or by clinical situations. 4 possible choice options are listed, of which only 1 is correct.
    
    In the event of a pandemic emergency, the exam will be carried out online on the Teams platform. Multiple choice or open-ended questions may be asked

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    Verification of learning takes place only through the final exam which aims to ascertain the actual acquisition by the student of the all expected learning outcomes. The final grade is out of thirty and the exam is passed if the student has answered exactly a number of quizzes such as to score at least 18 points. The multiple choice quizzes will cover all the topics covered in class and are prepared to assess the level of knowledge and ascertain the depth of clinical analysis and reasoning skills developed by the student.