[Experimental model to verify the teaching efficiency of General Surgery II]

The modern university teaching, of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery typical of the Italian university organization, at least for clinical matters must pursue the aim to develop in the students a clinical and responsible sense of the seriousness of the profession they intend to embrace, both for medical that for surgical pathologies. Therefore it is very important the teaching method, above all in a diagnostic key, hopefully making above all the study of the patient the true "book" to read and meditate. Beyond the necessary attendance of the Students to the wards to learn the diagnostic and therapeutic procedure methods to pursue, it is of the utmost importance to verify on the field the development in them of the clinical sense of the correct professional method. Therefore a method of direct teaching by clinical examples and a model for written verification of the student's preparations has been personally introduced and experimented along more than twelve years of general surgery's teaching by the Author. It consist of a Form, very different from the quiz methods of other cultures, that introduces the student, to the correct way to study of each patient since the phase of learning and then in that of the examination. The typical adopted Form is proposed in advance to the students at the beginning of the course of lessons, so they can conform critically their preparation of the entire subject to study preparing to individuate the correct diagnosis on a proposed card simulating a clinical situation, and then to discuss it with the examinator. This method informs the student to the correct procedure in studying a patient, and give the examiner a way of a possible uniformity in his evaluation of the preparations of the student himself.