Program Overview

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CHIRURGIA GENERALE

Course Description

The course aims to deepen the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of the most common pathologies that may require potential elective or emergency surgical treatment during pregnancy.

Objectives and Contents

Educational Objectives (Detail) and Learning Outcomes

The purpose of the course is to describe the main abdominal emergencies during pregnancy, deepen their specific clinical characteristics, management, and treatment.

During pregnancy, due to the anatomical and physiological changes it entails, the clinical presentation of some surgical abdominal emergencies can be atypical and misleading. The resulting diagnostic uncertainty is often the cause of therapeutic delay, with an increase in both maternal and infant risks.

The specific training course will put graduates in the position to have the basic concepts that allow the provision of health care in the most common surgical urgent pathologies in pregnancy.

The graduate must be able to recognize, among the most frequent surgical pathologies in pregnancy, those that constitute an immediate risk of life for the mother and the fetus, knowing their management through the application of a critical decision-making process and evidence-based practice updated and validated.

Teaching Methods

• Theoretical lectures in the classroom (unless otherwise indicated by the University in relation to the COVID-19 epidemiological situation, with the possibility of holding lessons remotely using the Microsoft Teams platform).

Program/Content

• Acute abdomen in pregnancy: intestinal occlusion, abdominal trauma, peritonitis.
• Esophago-gastric pathology in pregnancy: reflux disease, hiatal hernias, gastric and duodenal ulcers.
• Colonic pathology in pregnancy: diverticulosis and diverticulitis.
• Hepatobiliary and pancreatic pathology in pregnancy: cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis, cholestatic jaundice, acute pancreatitis.
• Abdominal wall defects in pregnancy: hernias and laparoceles.

Texts/Bibliography

• Material provided by the teacher.
• High Risk Pregnancy, 5th Edition. David James, Philip Steer. Cambridge University Press, October 2017

Teachers and Commissions

• GIOVANNI CAMERINI
  • Reception: Direct contact with the teacher via email.

Examination Commission

• ALESSIA DE SIMONE (President)
• MONICA BENUSSI
• GIOVANNI CAMERINI
• ROBERTO SILANOS
• CLAUDIA MASSAROTTI (President and Coordinator of the integrated course)

Lessons

Start of Lessons

The calendar of educational activities is indicated, every academic year, in the Student Guide published online.

Lesson Schedule

The schedule of this teaching is available at: EasyAcademy Portal

Exams

Examination Methods

To pass the exam, a multiple-choice test is planned in computer mode. The student must identify the correct answer among the 4 proposed answers. The Obstetrics test consists of 30 questions.

The student must answer at least 24 answers correctly, LAP (Acceptable performance level).

Verification Methods

The learning verification takes place through the final exam alone, which aims to ascertain the acquisition of the expected learning outcomes.

Exam Calendar

• Date: 20/01/2026, Time: 14:30, Place: GENOVA, Type: Written + Oral
• Date: 17/02/2026, Time: 14:30, Place: GENOVA, Type: Written + Oral
• Date: 16/06/2026, Time: 14:30, Place: GENOVA, Type: Written + Oral
• Date: 21/07/2026, Time: 14:30, Place: GENOVA, Type: Written + Oral
• Date: 15/09/2026, Time: 14:30, Place: GENOVA, Type: Written + Oral