-Clinical history (familial, personal physiologic, personal remote pathologic, personal proximal pathologic
-General physical examination
-Physical examination of the various organs and apparati/systems (respiratory, cardiac, digestive and genitourinary) and of the nervous system
-Basic surgical physical examination (symptoms and signs, examination of the cervical region, of the thorax, abdomen, detection of signs of the vascular pathologies of the lower limbs)
- Basic knowledge about characteristics of somatic, visceral and neuropathic pain and about the main pain conditions of medical-surgical interest: thoracic, abdominal and pelvic pain (acute and chronic), headaches, myofascial pain syndromes and fibromyalgia, arthromyalgias
-The various types of dyspnoea and their origin
-Cyanosis
- Various types of fever
-State of consciousness alterations: fainting, syncope
-Jaundice, diarrhea, stipsis, ascites
-EKG
-Ultrasounds, endoscopy, manometry
-Definition and scope of epidemiology (fundamental measurements in epidemiology, rate standardization, screening, cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies, clinical trials, quality of information, bias and confounding