Q1. Knowledge and understanding:
At the end of the course the student must demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental aspects of anamnestic order and clinical expression, associated with the development of chronic and acute immune-mediated rheumatic diseases, degenerative diseases, infectious rheumatic diseases and diseases related to metabolic diseases or associated with other systemic diseases.
Q2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
at the end of the course the student must be able to apply the knowledge acquired in point D1 to hypothesize the presence and identify at the onset inflammatory or degenerative osteoarticular diseases and understand their development, the consequences of their damage, the social welfare effects in related to physical handicap (disability), chronic pain and general metabolic alterations.
The student will have to demonstrate that he can associate the disorders described with the findings in the field of physical semeiological evaluation.
Q3. Making judgments:
at the end of the course the student should have sufficient means to judge the scenarios of onset and progression of rheumatic diseases referred to in the program
Q4. Communication skills:
at the end of the course the student must be able to clearly explain the concepts acquired in point D1, using the appropriate terminology
Q5. Learning ability:
at the end of the course the student must be able to independently deepen the topics covered, furthermore he must be able to transfer the concepts acquired in the context of the subsequent courses to start clinical practice

appropriate information and terminology acquired in the previous courses of biochemistry, human anatomy, general pathology, general immunology, physiology.

Type of osteoarticular pathologies:
- degenerative
- systemic and district inflammatory (autoimmune, auto-inflammatory, infectious, microcrystalline, paraneoplastic, metabolic, endocrine or accumulation diseases)
- metabolic bone diseases
- fibromyalgia syndrome

Rheumatology textbook
Author: G. Ferraccioli
EDISES 2019

The parameters of systemic inflammation. Metabolic and blood cell alterations in the course of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Blood parameters for the study of autoimmunity. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and their metabolic actions (boosters).
rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative spondyloarthritis (with particular reference to ankylosing spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis), polymyalgia rheumatica, infectious viral and bacterial arthritis (including Lyme disease), reactive arthritis, post infectious arthritis (acute rheumatic fever), gout and others microcrystal deposit diseases. Osteoarthritis and dysmetabolic hyperostotensive polyenthesopathy (DISH). Rheumatic diseases associated with endocrine, metabolic, haematological, storage diseases (e.g. of amyloid substance or iron). Diseases of bone metabolism (with particular reference to osteoporosis and osteomalacia), Paget's disease, aseptic osteonecrosis, bone edema, "complex regional pain syndrome" (algodystrophic syndromes), compression neuropathies, osteochondritis, erythema nodosum, paraneoplastic syndromes of rheumatological interest. Fibromyalgia

Teaching methods
- frontal lessons
- didactic material transmitted electronically (slides)
- registration of lessons (go to TEAMS computer system)
- availability for clarification or in-depth meetings at the request of the student

Information on the course contents, verifiable in recording of the lessons on the TEAMS “platform”, teaching material attached to the platform and on Moodle, written by the teacher. Teacher himself available, for information and agreements for interviews, at his university email address, in the “public” domain

written exam and subsequent oral exam
-in the written questionnaire, 10 questions per exam session, multiple choice, each worth 1 point.
If the sufficiency of written answers is exceeded (6/10 points acquired) passage to the oral phase lasting at least 30 minutes (comment on clinical scenarios and medical pathophysiology
Final grade expressed out of thirty. Minimum positive vote corresponding to 18 out of 30.
The evaluation criteria are based on the aspects described in the learning objectives section

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)