501884 - RADIOLOGY

courses

ID:

501884

Duration (hours):

16

CFU:

SSD:

DIAGNOSTICA PER IMMAGINI E RADIOTERAPIA

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (02/03/2026 - 29/05/2026)

Course Objectives

o Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course the student will be able to understand what imaging modalities may be used to depict an organ and system. The student will understand the basic anatomy of the different organs and systems.
o Applied knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course the student will be able to apply the knowledge acquired to select the imaging modality more adequate for some specific situations and will have the tools to face different and unknown settings.
o Judgment autonomy: at the end of the course the student will be able to critically evaluate the downside of the different imaging modalities by analyzing the contraindications in specific subset of subjects and pathologies with specific regards to well defined clinical scenarios.
o Communication skills: at the end of the course the student will be able to communicate to the radiologist the imaging need for specific patients and clinical scenarios and define, together with the radiologist specialist, the best diagnostic path even for complex cases.
o Ability to learn: at the end of the course the student will be able to learn the differential diagnosis and radiological appearance of several basic pathological processes by applying the basic concepts acquired throughout the course.

Course Prerequisites

As pre-requisites there are the subjects of the traineeship in radiology course with specific regards to the ability to select the imaging modality more effectively depicting specific tissue and components of pathological processes (e.g. fat and liver steatosis) and to the ability to identify a medical image as being a X-ray, a CT, an MR or an ultrasound.

Teaching Methods

o The teaching is based on lectures enriched by specific clinic-radiological cases discussion. Power Point presentations are used to carry out the lectures.

Assessment Methods

Written exam in a multimedia classroom in person. Use of KiroTesting. 15 multiple choice questions (7 radiology, 4 Neuroradiology, 4 Radiotherapy) of which only one is correct and 3 open questions (1 for each module). The scores assigned by each question are weighted to the CFU of each module (Radiology/Neuroradiology/Radiotherapy). The questions may be theoretical or related to the interpretation of images. No penalty for errors. Duration 60 minutes.

Texts

o Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology 7th Edition - May 25, 2020 Authors: Andy Adam, Adrian K. Dixon, Jonathan H Gillard, Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop Hardback – Elsevier editors - ISBN: 780702075247 978-0-7020-7524-7 eBook ISBN: 9780702075629
o ESR eBook for Undergraduate Education in Radiology (https://www.myesr.org/undergraduate-education-radiology/ebook-undergraduate-education-radiology last checked 15/08/2023)

o Imaging of the musculoskeletal system
 Inflammatory and degenerative joint disease
 Traumatic osteo-articular pathology
 Skeletal tumor pathology

o Imaging of the thoracic district (most lessons during heart and lung course)
 Imaging methods and radiological anatomy
 Acute inflammatory lung disease
 Obstructive and restrictive pulmonary disease
 Pulmonary and pleural tumor pathology
 Radiological semeiotics of the mediastinal masses

o Imaging of the cardio-vascular system
 Cardiac pathology
 Aortic pathology
 Pathology of the peripheral vascular system

o Imaging of the abdominal and pelvic area
 Traumatic and non-traumatic abdominal emergencies
 Gastro-intestinal inflammatory and tumor pathology
 Focal and diffuse liver disease
 Bilio-pancreatic inflammatory and neoplastic pathology
 Renal and urinary tract pathology
 Pathology of the male and female reproductive system

o Outlines of breast Imaging

o Outline of interventional radiology