Module Details

OBSTETRICS AND GINEACOLOGY

MS1039

Course
OBSTETRICS AND GINEACOLOGY
Code
MS1039
Academic Year
2023/2024
Curriculum Year
2018/2019
Degree Programme
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
4
Lecture Hours
40
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/40 - Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
6
Teaching period
Secondo Semestre
Campus
ALESSANDRIA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
- Vaginal delivery and cesarean section
- Prenatal diagnosis
- Preterm delivery and prolonged pregnancy
- Gestational diabetes
- Hypertensive disease in pregnancy
- Intrauterine growth restriction
- Twin pregnancy
- Infectious diseases during pregnancy
- Drugs and pregnancy
- Abortion and voluntary termination of pregnancy
- Uterine fibromatosis
- Endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain
- Gynecologic endocrinology
- Extrauterine pregnancy
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Genito-urinary prolapse
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
Reference Texts
- Ginecologia e ostetricia. Livio Zanoio, Eliana Barcellona, Gabrio Zacché; edizione Edra Masson.
- Ginecologia e Ostetricia; Pescetto G, De Cecco L ; Soc. Ed. Universo.
Learning Outcomes
-Allow the student to learn the main concepts related to obstetric and gynecologic pathology
-Provide the student with the tools for knowledge of obstetric and gynecological semeiotics.
-Provide the student with the tools to be able to recognize, diagnose and practice appropriate management of major obstetrical-gynecologic pathologies.
- Encourage the connection and use of what has been learned in other disciplines to implement knowledge in the field of gynecologic endocrinology.
- Provide the student with the basic skills to be able to perform a gynecologic examination.
Teaching Methods
- Participated frontal lectures.
- Discussion of clinical cases.
- Practical training.
- Reading scientific papers.
Assessment Methods
The exam consists of a written test (test) with multiple choice questions on the topics covered in the program
Detailed Syllabus
- Vaginal delivery and cesarean section
- Prenatal diagnosis: First Trimester Screening, Nuchal Translucency, NIPT, prenatal invasive diagnosis, obstetric ultrasound
- Preterm delivery and prolonged pregnancy
- Gestational diabetes
- Hypertensive pathology in pregnancy
- Intrauterine growth retardation
- Twin pregnancy
- Infectious diseases in pregnancy
- Medications in pregnancy
- Abortion and voluntary termination of pregnancy
- Uterine fibromatosis
- Endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain
- Gynecologic endocrinology: polycystic ovary syndrome, amenorrhea
- Extrauterine pregnancy
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Genito-urinary prolapse
- Sexually Transmitted Infections: vulvo-vaginal infections, pelvic inflammatory disease
Expected Learning Outcomes
The student at the end of the course should know:
- main pathologies occuring during pregnancy
- main benign gynecological pathologies
- principles of gynecologic endocrinology
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