Module Details

OBSTETRICS AND GINEACOLOGY

MS1039

Course
OBSTETRICS AND GINEACOLOGY
Code
MS1039
Academic Year
2025/2026
Curriculum Year
2020/2021
Degree Programme
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
4
Lecture Hours
32
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
- Pelvis anatomy
- 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
- 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
- Provide the student with the main concepts related to obstetric and gynecological semeiotics.
- Enable the student to learn the fundamental notions of obstetric and gynecological pathology.
- Equip the student with the tools to recognize, diagnose, and apply appropriate management strategies for the main obstetric-gynecological pathologies.
- Allow the student to acquire key knowledge in gynecological oncology.
- Develop the student's basic skills to perform a gynecological examination.
- Encourage the integration and application of knowledge from other disciplines to enhance and improve expertise in the obstetric/gynecological field.
Teaching Methods
- Participated frontal lectures.
- Discussion of clinical cases.
- Practical training.
- Reading scientific papers.
Detailed Syllabus
- Female genital system anatomy
- 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
By the end of the course, the student must have knowledge of:
- Main pathologies occurring during pregnancy
- Main benign gynecological pathologies
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