List of topics

(subject to slight changes)

• Systemic approach to diagnosis
• Clinical epidemiology – Critical appraisal of evidence
• Clinical epidemiology - Impact of the rheumatic diseases
• Immunology and the rheumatic diseases
• Rheumatoid arthritis: pathogenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis: treatment
• Seronegative spondylarthropathies: pathogenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Seronegative spondylarthropathies: treatment
• Crystal arthropathies and septic arthritis
• Miscellaneous inflammatory arthritides: Adult’s Still disease, sarcoidosis; palindromic rheumatism; paraneoplastic arthritis, hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritides (JIA).
• Infection and arthritis. Reactive arthritis, Lyme, Whipple, HIV, viral arthritis, Hepatitis C,…
• Measure of disease activity and damage in inflammatory arthritis
• Early arthritis: diagnosis and management
• Genetics for rheumatologists
• Psycho-social dimensions of the rheumatic diseases
• Imaging, including ultrasound
• Connective tissue diseases: concepts and pathogenesis, overlap syndromes, mixed connective tissue disease and undifferentiated connective tissue disease
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and diagnosis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: treatment
• Antiphospholipid syndrome
• Systemic sclerosis
• Polymyositis, dermatomyositis
• Sjögren’s syndrome, lymphoproliferation in autoimmune diseases
• Classification of vasculitis and secondary vasculitis and vasculitis mimics
• ANCA-associated vasculitis and polyarteritis nodosa
• Behçet’s disease, polychondritis, eye symptoms in rheumatic diseases
• Autoinflammatory Syndromes
• Systemic consequences of the inflammatory process: amyloidosis, anemia, artherosclerosis, …
• Rheumatic manifestations of systemic diseases/Miscellaneous rheumatic diseases
• The skin and the rheumatic diseases
• Molecular and cellular basis of tissue destruction
• Rheumatic manifestations of tropical diseases
• Osteoarthritis: pathegenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Osteoarthritis: treatment
• Low back pain (including sciatica and DISH)
• Regional pain syndromes (including reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
• Generalized pain syndromes (including Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome)
• Osteoporosis: pathogenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Osteoporosis: treatment
• Other bone diseases: osteomalacia, Paget's disease; renal osteodystrophy; osteomyelitis, osteonercrose
• PMR
• Systemic manifestations of primary immune deficiencies and FAS deficiencies
• Malignant bone diseases (including new concepts and therapies as they apply to Rh. Dis.)
• Pain: mechanisms and management
• Principles of rehabilitation
• Glucocorticoids
• Cryoglobulinemia and systemic manifestations of hepatitis C virus
• Cell and gene therapy in rheumatic diseases
• Neuroendocrine Immunology