TIROCINIO PROFESSIONALIZZANTE V ANNO - channel 2

6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPE SESSA - Module Orthopaedics and Traumatology - MED/33 - 1 CFU
STEFANO PALMUCCI - Module Radiodiagnostic - MED/36 - 1 CFU
PIETRO CASTELLINO - Module Tirocinio Professionalizzante Medicina Interna - MED/09 - 2 CFU
NUNZIATA GIUSEPPA ELISABETTA BARBERA - Module ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE E DISCIPLINE MEDICO-LEGALI - channel 2 - MED/43 - 1 CFU
MARGHERITA FERRANTE - Module Professionalizing internship V year channel 2 - MED/42 - 1 CFU

Learning Objectives

Orthopaedics and Traumatology
To show to the student the main activies of Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Unit.
Radiodiagnostic
The student should know main methods and machines used in diagnostic imaging; to understande the diagnostic process of main diseases; to learn how to prepare patients before radiodiagnostic procedures, namely when contrast administration is required
Tirocinio Professionalizzante Medicina Interna
A period of clinical practice in a department of internal medicine.
ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE E DISCIPLINE MEDICO-LEGALI - channel 2
Legal Medicine

Legal medicine is aimed to the study and application of scientific and medical knowledge to legal problems. It is directed to the acquisition of information significant to the exercise of medical profession in terms of legal and ethical issues, with respect to criminal, civil and social insurance.
Professionalizing internship V year channel 2
To have competencies on environmental epidemiology and laboratory of anvironmental an health.

Course Structure

Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Practice at Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Radiodiagnostic
Training in the "Radiology Unit I", "Presidio Policlinico" (University Hospital Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele") - Bulding 1, floor -1
Tirocinio Professionalizzante Medicina Interna
Clinical activity in a ward of internal medicine
Professionalizing internship V year channel 2
Laboratory work on environmental and health and environmental epidemiology laboratory.

Detailed Course Content

Orthopaedics and Traumatology
- The student, supervised from a tutor, will have access to:
  
  - The ward of orthopedic and traumatological patients;
  
  - The casting room, where the main types of immobilization and the management of small traumas will be shown;
  
  - The out-patients, where the main orthopedic and traumatological diseases are treated and the patients already undergone surgical treatment are followed-up
Radiodiagnostic
- Radiodiagnostic (radiobiology, radioprotection, principles of justification and optimization)
- Imaging procedures
- X-rays production (definition and application of X-ray tube); properties of ionizing radiations (photoelectric effect, Compton effect, ionizations mechanism);
- Computed Tomography (CT) scanner; (background, evolution, models, components of CT room scanner);
- Contrast media (classification: radiographic, sonographic, MRI); use of contrast media; adverse reactions;
- Principles and machines used in Ultrasonography (clinical applications in maternal-fetal contest, etc); clinilcal applications of ultrasonography in adults (liver, spleen, abdominal, thyroid US, etc);
- Principles of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging); MRI scanner; absolute and relative controindications for patients before MRI;
- Diagnostic process for respiratory disease (pneumothorax, trauma, hemoptysis, pneumonitis, neoplasia, enphysema, pulmonary nodule, pleural effusion); anatomy of chest radiography;
- Diagnostic process for main gastrointestinal diseases (jaundice, cholecystitis, appendicitis, Crohn);
- Abdominal X-ray in Emergency Room; imaging of gastrointestinal diseases;
- Imaging of main uro-genital diseases (renal lithiasis; non-neoplastic and neoplastic bladder diseases; prostate disease; ovarian diseases, scrotal diseases);
- Imaigng of SNC disease;
- Radiotherapt and Nuclear Medicine: principles and applications
Tirocinio Professionalizzante Medicina Interna
Collecton of medical hystory, clinical examination, diagnostic hypothesis, differential diagnosis, prognostic indicators, individualized therapy
ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE E DISCIPLINE MEDICO-LEGALI - channel 2
Legal Medicine

Introduction to Penal Law (crime, classifications, objective and subjective elements). Civil capacity (legal capacity and capacity to act, interdiction, disqualification, natural incapacity). Material causation and law regulations. Chain of material causation. Imputability (under age, full or partial infirmity of the mind, intoxications, deaf-mutism). Diagnosis of death. Report of the causes of death. Regulations of mortuary Police. Time of death and thanatological changes of corpse. Medical Deontology. Informed consent. Notes on pathology: injuries from blunt instruments; stab injuries; injuries from fire-arm; electrical injuries; asphyxia (suffocation, hanging, strangulation, constriction, drowning). Forensic Toxicology: diagnosis of poisoning; CO poisoning; alcoholism and drug addiction; legislation on drugs. Degrees of murder. Crimes of beating and personal injury. Crime of sexual violence. Abortion. The professional medical liability. Medical Report to Public Prosecutor’s Office. Professional secrecy. Medical record; medical certification. Legal advice to the Office of Public Prosecutions. Compulsory medical treatments. Social system of assistance and welfare services.
Professionalizing internship V year channel 2
Environmental epidemiology exercise.

Laboratory case-study.

Textbook Information

Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Sessa-Villani. Ortopedia e Traumatologia. Monduzzi Editore.
Radiodiagnostic
1) Compendio di Radiologia” di Roberto Passariello e Giovanni Simonetti Editore Idelson – Gnocchi.

2) Fernando Mazzuccato – Anatomia Radiologica Tecniche e Metodologie in Radiodiagnostica (Piccin)
Tirocinio Professionalizzante Medicina Interna

Cecil, Internal Medicine
ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE E DISCIPLINE MEDICO-LEGALI - channel 2
Legal Medicine
1. L. Macchiarelli, P. Arbarello, G. Cave Bondi, N. M. Di Luca, T. Feola - Compendio di Medicina Legale. Editore: Minerva Medica
2. G.A. Norelli, C. Buccelli, V. Fineschi - Medicina legale e delle assicurazioni. Editore: Piccin
3. Zagra M., Argo A., Madea B., Procaccianti P. Medicina legale orientata per problemi. Editore: Elsevier Srl, 2011.
Professionalizing internship V year channel 2
http://syllabus.unict.it/insegnamento.php?mod=13607

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