UNIT 1. HUMAN PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Fertilization and stages of embryonic development
2. - First phase: from ovulation to implantation
3. - Second phase: Bilaminar germinative disc formation (2nd week)
4. - Third phase: trilaminar germinative disc formation (3rd week)
5. Embryonic period
6. Fetal period
7. - First month of pregnancy
8. - Second month of pregnancy
9. - Third month of pregnancy
10. - Fourth month of pregnancy
11. - Fifth month of pregnancy
12. - Sixth month of pregnancy
13. - Seventh month of pregnancy
14. - Eighth month of pregnancy
15. - Ninth month of pregnancy
16. The placenta
17. - Structure of the placenta
18. - Functions of the placenta
19. - Amniotic fluid

TEACHING UNIT 2. WHAT IS USUGRAPHY?

1. Basic concepts of ultrasound
2. Different types of ultrasound images
3. Advantages and disadvantages of ultrasound
4. Types of ultrasound scans in pregnancy

TEACHING UNIT 3. KNOWLEDGE OF GESTATIONAL AGE ACCORDING TO ECHO

1. Importance of gestational age
2. Most used parameters for calculating gestational age
3. Ultrasound scans in pregnancy
4. Importance of fetal weight for gestational age

UNIT DIDACTIC 4. 4D AND 5D SCAN: EMOTIONAL SCAN

1. The emotion of an ultrasound
2. 4D ultrasound
3. - 4D ultrasound in different weeks of pregnancy
4. - Advantages and disadvantages of 4D ultrasound
5. 5D ultrasound

UNIT 5. EXAMINATIONS DURING PREGNANCY

1. Pregnancy monitoring program
2. Pregnancy monitoring
3. - First pregnancy monitoring visit
4. - Prenatal visits
5. Perinatal risk assessment

UNIT 6. FETAL MALFORMATIONS

1. Introduction: congenital anomalies
2. - Causes and risk factors
3. - Prevention
4. - Detection
5. Definitions
6. Dysmorphology: pathogenic mechanisms
7. Introduction to chromosomal anomalies
8. Aneuploidy
9. - Autosomal aneuploidies
10. - Sex chromosome aneuploidy
11. Variations in chromosome structure
12. Sex-linked alterations
13. Congenital malformations
14. Monogenic diseases
15. Multifactorial abnormalities