Radiology

Recommended Prerequisites

It is highly desirable that students have acquired basic notions of anatomy, physiology and pathological anatomy. Given the way information is included in the studies plan, much of it and the training delivered in this curricular unit will only be useful later in the course, during the teaching of the modules - medical and surgical practice.

Therefore, it is important that students can continue to review the content of this curricular unit in an integrated way in the clinical cycle. To do so, a DVD with all the training content may prove to be a good tool to support the future academic years.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes:

Delivered in a e-learning system by means of a DVD that was created by the curricular unit. There is the possibility of a personal revision. Students’ questions are accepted by e-mail. Additional lecturing classes that approach subsidiary topics of radiological training, senology, intervention, radiation protection and neuroradiology.

Practical Classes:

Based on theoretical presentations, teaching by means of problem solving and discussion of topics. Visits to the radiology department so that students become familiar with the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.

Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to:

-Know the physical principles, benefits and risks of the different imaging techniques

-Describe the main guidelines for each technique

-Identify imaging anatomy for the different techniques

-Describe changes of the image, recognizing their fundamental physiopathological mechanisms

-Propose an imaging test after collecting the clinical history

Objectives at the level of clinical skills:

-Use imaging as a diagnostic tool, developing skills necessary for the correct referral

-Interpret basic imaging tests generally not supervised by Radiologists

Objectives at the level of attitudes:

-Understand the experience felt by the patient in a specific test

-Apply the principles of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness in the prescription of imaging tests

-Understand the role of imaging in clinical decision

-Recognize the benefits of multidisciplinary integration of the information provided by means of diagnostic imaging

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Imaging methods.

2. Chest radiology.

3. Abdominal Radiology.

4. Musculoskeletal system.

5. Central nervous system.

6. Senology.

7. Radiation protection.

8. Radiological intervention.

9. Nuclear medicine.

10. Osteoarticular Scintigraphy.

11. Nuclear Cardiology.

12. Nuclear Endocrinology.

13. Curricular Integrative Activities.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Filipe Marreiros Caseiro Alves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 2.5%
Active collaboration in practical classes, measured by the Assistant: 7.5%
Midterm exam (15%+15%+10%): 40.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

1 - Imagiologia Clínica, 2008, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. Caseiro-Alves F, Belo-Soares P, Donato P

DVD interactivo.

2 - Imagiologia Básica.Texto e Atlas. Lidel, Lisboa 2003 - Pisco, J M . 

3 - Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology, 6ª edição, Cambridge, Massachussets, 2004, Harvard University Press - Novelline, R A.

4 - Nuclear Medicine - a teaching file, Mosby Year Book, 1992 - Frederick Datz, et al.