LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowing the main issues related to pregnancy, childbirth and the pre peri and postnatal morbidity and the most frequent forms of gynecologic pathology. Learn  the principles for the management of emergency clinical situations and urgency, putting in place the necessary first aids.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

COURSE OBJECTIVES

 The student will be introduced to:

1) the female physiology

2) physiological mechanism of childbirth

3) the main obstetric complications

4) contraception

5) the main gynecological pathologies, including cancer

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At  the end of the class  the student will be ablle to :

know, evaluate and compare female reproductive function including contraception 

distinguish the concept of  obsterical risk

distinguish and classify  delivery complications

recognize the different diagnosis of  gynecological pathologies

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures with projections of audiovisual material

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Define a monitoring plan for low-risk pregnancy

Acquire notions of prenatal Diagnostics

Framing and evaluating the conditions of risk in pregnancy

Know the main pathologies in first trimester: abortion and ectopic pregnancy

Management of emergencies in the third stage of labour: placenta previa, Placental Abruption, postpartum hemorrhage

Human reproduction, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases

Menstrual disorders and dysmenorrhea, postmenopausal bleeding

Prevention, screening, and early detection of gynecological cancers, including breast cancer

Knowing how to instrument a pap smear

Major gynecological benign diseases: fibroids, ovarian cysts, prolapse

Major gynecological surgical procedures

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

all teaching material (slides, videos)  will be given to the students.

For further deepening: any Gynecology and Obstetrics manual in use for medical students