Pharmacology
At the end of the academic training course the student is likely to be able to describe the basic principles of clinical pharmacology and in particular, notions of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and absorption mechanisms; classify the active substances according to their composition and specificity of action.
Neurology
Essential learning objectives of this course are the ability to describe the damage and the ethiopatogenetic mechanisms subtending the most common diseases affecting the central and the peripheral nervous system and their clinical and instrumental diagnostic process. The course will also aim at providing knowledge to discern the neurobiological mechanisms favouring the recovery from acute and chronic neuronal damage as well as the mechanisms that support maladaptive plasticity.
The course will achieve its objectives through lectures and interactive learning activities with the aim of improving students ability to understand and solve the main issues emerging in everyday clinical practice.
Neurosurgery
Fundamental and indispensable objectives are the following:
• To acquire precise scientific knowledge necessary to classify and correctly define the neurosurgical diseases most frequently encountered in the clinical setting.
• Comprehension of the main pathophysiological mechanisms responsible of the neurological deficit. Identify the origin of the impairment and define its type and natural history.
Psychiatry
The course is aimed at providing the fundamentals of psychopathology and the history of psychiatry and a basic knowledge of pathophysiology, the clinic and the treatment of the main psychiatric disorders.