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Table 1 “Chalk and blackboard interactive 2-day workshop” tutorial

From: Italo-Swiss “Chalk and blackboard interactive 2-day workshop”—participants feedback

Case-writing: a faculty and two learners (sometimes only one) select an appropriate and interesting case managed during their clinical practice, deepen their understanding on the topics chosen, develop different versions to cater the need of participants with different levels of preparation and define a clear set of learning objectives (time spent: 2–4 h).

The learners and the faculty present the case, ask the participants to collect further history information and plan the physical examination.

The participants make (and justify) an initial diagnostic assessment, suggest (and interpret) the laboratory tests and finally recommend management

Treatment failure and possible complications are also discussed.

The time spent to deepen history taking, examination, reasoning and decision making is considerably higher than that devoted to laboratory tests and therapeutic choices. The interpretation of diagnostic studies is also addressed (with emphasis on simple studies and potential errors).

The total time spent for presentation and interactive elaboration of each case is 60 min or more.