Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
MED/24 (UROLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (25/09/2023 - 12/01/2024)
Lesson hours
8 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Be matriculated in the fourth year and next
Learning outcomes
1.Knowing how to motivate the demand for a specialist urological or uro-andrological consultation
2.Knowing how to perform a rectal exam, palpate the abdomen and testicles, scrotum trans illumination, recognize a bladder globe
3.Knowing how to interpret a complete urine examination, urine culture, semen analysis and seminal culture
4.Know the meaning of a hematuria, bacteriuria and leucocyturia
5.Know the catheters currently used and be able to perform a bladder catheterization
6.Know how to identify the localization of urinary infections (urethra, prostate, epididymis, bladder, excretory system)
7.Know how to explain and define the risk and consequences of sexually transmitted diseases
8.Knowing the details and significance of urodynamic examinations, urethrocystoscopy and other strumental exams in urology
9.Know how to explain to the patient a radiological report
10.Recognize the urological urgencies (acute urinary retention, priapism, testicular torsion, renal colic, urological trauma)
11.Know the symptoms and the basic diagnostics of tumors of the testis, penis, prostate, bladder and kidney
12.Being able to understand and to explain to the patient a histological report
13.Knowing the tumor markers and their diagnostic and prognostic meanings
14.Know how to explain to the patient the sense of an oncological follow-up
Course contents
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE URINARY AND MALE GENITAL SYSTEM
UROLOGICAL SEMEIOTIC
1.Anamnesis
2.Urinary tract symptoms
3.Urological syndromes (hematuria, leucocyturia, bacteriuria, urinary retention)
4.Sexual Disorders
5.The pain in urology
6.Physical examination
7.Laboratory diagnostics (blood, urine and sediment, seminal fluid, cultures, cytology)
8.Uro-radiological diagnostic
9 Urological biopsies
II PATHOLOGY OF MICTURITION
1.Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of micturition
2.Urinary incontinence
3.Neurological Bladder
III UROLOGICAL URGENCIES
1.Urological trauma
2.Testicular torsion
3.Priapism
4.Acute retention of urine
5.Renal colic
6.Haematuria
IV THE OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY
1.High obstructive uropathy
2.Low obstructive uropathy
3.Urethral stenosis
4.Benign prostatic hypertrophy
V URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
Diagnostic methodologies, Clinical and Treatment
VI UROLOGICAL ONCOLOGY
1.Kidney Tumors
2.Tumors of the urinary tract
3.Tumors of the bladder
4.Prostate cancer
5.Tumors of the testis
VII ANDROLOGY
1. Male sexual dysfunctions
2. Pathology of male fertility
3. Uroandrology
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and pratical training
Reccomended or required readings
Synopsis Essential Urology in the kidney and urinary tract diseases. JALLOUS HUSSEIN - Library University Medea. Pavia.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Prof. Jallous receives students on Tuesdays from 13.00 to 14.00
Tel. +39.0382.503867 Fax. +39.0382.503403 Mobile +39.3393093659
e.mail: hussein.jallous@unipv.it; jallhus@libero.it;
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