Enrollment year
2013/2014
Academic discipline
MED/26 (NEUROLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY (IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE) (ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(02/10/2017 - 19/01/2018)
Lesson hours
40 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
Being able to perform a neurological examination and to propose a syndromic diagnosis and a diagnostic path to acertain diagnosis and propose a treatment
Course contents
1. Headache, trigeminal neuralgia’s, facial paresis (V)
2. Back and neck pain (C )
3. Disorders of consciousness: syncope, confusion and delirium, coma; seizures and epilepsy (C )
5. Dizziness, gait and balance disorders, disorders of hearing (V)
6. Weakness and paralysis (V)
7. Numbness, Tingling, and Sensory loss (V)
8. Disorders of vision and diplopia (V)
9. Aphasia, memory loss and other focal cerebral disorders (C )
10. Cerebrovascular diseases(V + [Neurosurgery]))
11. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias (V)
12. Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders (V)
13. Diseases of the spinal cord (C + [Neurosurgery])
14. Concussion and other head injuries [Neurosurgery].
15. Primary and Metastatic tumors of the nervous system [Neurosurgery]
16. Multiple Sclerosis (V)
17. Infections of the CNS (C)
18. Peripheral neuropathy (V)
19. Muscle disease(V)
20. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (C)
21. Alcohol and alcoholism (C)
22. Psychiatric disorders in neurology (C)
Teaching methods
Frontal classes and practical experience in my department of General Neurology and outpatients center
Reccomended or required readings
Neurosciences Book:
Harrison’s Neurology in Clinical Medicine
Editor: Stephen L. Hauser
Mc Graw Hill
ISBN: 978-0-07-181500-0
Paperback: 52.28 euros
e-book: 36.6 euros
Assessment methods
Oral
Two parts: Neurology + Neurosurgery
It is possible to keep the mark obtained in one and take a re-examination in the other one
Final mark = (neurology *5 + neurosurgery) / 6
30 cum laude = 31
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