AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides information ranging from cancerogenesis, epidemiology and risk factors for cancers, to diagnosis, staging and integrated therapies.

The course includes a section dedicated to evidence-based practice in order to give base notions regarding clinical questions which can be answered with currently available tools such as approved guidelines.

Students are expected to be able to identify a patient with an oncologic problem and to apply guidelines to the specific case; furthermore, the student will be able to rationally evaluate the available therapeutic options, to understand a diagnostic-therapeutic approach in oncology and to recognize acknowledged risk factors for development of cancer.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons

Students with certified DSA, disability or other special educational needs are encouraged to contact lecturers at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching methods that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning patterns and provide suitable compensatory tools

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1.       Cancerogenesis                                     

2.       Epidemiology                                                                          

3.       Primary and secondary prevention                                      

4.       Risk factors                                                                     

5.       Diagnosis and staging                                                           

6.       Biomarkers                                                                             

7.       Oncologic treatments (basis)                                                             

8.       Evidence-Based Practice and guidelines in oncology  

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Manuale di oncologia medica per le professioni sanitarie  di Marco Danova, Sergio Palmeri, Francesco Valentino Editore: Selecta Medica 2012

Fisioterapia basata sulle evidenze di Herbert - Jamtvedt - Hagen - Mead  • Edra 2014

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester III year

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written and oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Details on modality for exam preparation and for required depth of knowledge for each subject will be communicated during the lessons. 

The exam will be mostly base on the subjects described during frontal lessons and the subjects described in the course program.

Students with DSA or other regularly certified special educational needs will be able to agree with the professor on the written or oral mode of the examination, by contacting professors at least 10 days before the exam. They will also be able to take advantage of 30 % additional time 

FURTHER INFORMATION

When a student is a certified DSA, it is required to contact the Referring Teacher of the DISABILITY and DSA Commission for DINOGMI: Prof. N. Girtler (nicolagirtler@unige.it ) and evaluated the single case, he will send to the teachers the necessary directions both for  lessons development  and for modality of examination