Unit MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY I

Course
Medicine and surgery
Study-unit Code
GP004742
Curriculum
In all curricula
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa integrata

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Code GP004811
CFU 2
Teacher Giovanni Pizza
Teachers
  • Giovanni Pizza
Hours
  • 25 ore - Giovanni Pizza
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Scienze umane, politiche della salute e management sanirario
Academic discipline M-DEA/01
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents Bodily theories of health and illness in anthropological key

clinical ethnography and practices of care in transcultural perspective
Reference texts Giovanni Pizza,
Antropologia medica, saperi, pratiche e politiche del corpo, Carocci, Roma.
Educational objectives Acquisition of cultural mediation in clinical context;

Acuqisition of trasncultural capacity in patients and physician relationships.

Humanization
Prerequisites Perfect knowledge of Italian language.
In order to be able to understand and cope with the course, the student must possess the general notions related to the studied context and to the organization of the subject, both from the programmatic
aspect and from the aspect of his human presence and responsibility, notions that the student should already have acquired in the course of schooling. This prerequisite applies to both attending and nonattending students.
Teaching methods Frontal lessons and peer exercises. The prevailing teaching metod is the previous one. Then well'have the aid of multimedial system applied to medical anthropology and also seminar of deepening are previewed.
Learning verification modality The final examination consists of an oral or written test of the student's choice: the oral interview, of about half an hour, allows to verify the student's ability to contextualize the knowledge acquired in the anthropological, historical-socio-cultural framework of reference.
During the course, students will be given the opportunity to prepare a paper on a specific topic, which will be presented to the class during seminar hours, and which will count as an in itinere test.

In general, the test verifies the following aspects:
- Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Synthesis
- Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Detail
- Autonomy of judgment, understood as the ability to produce independent judgments, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues;
- Communication skills, conceived as the ability to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors;
- Learning skills, understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy; and

Students with DSA/disabilities are asked to contact the lecturer before the exam
Extended program 1. Medical anthropology
2. Body figures
3. The embodiment
4. Tarantism
5. The pain
6. Medicines and Institutions
7. Healing Paths and Efficacy Devices
Practical tweorie and history of medical anthropology in the contemporary international field

EPISTEMOLOGY

Code GP004813
CFU 2
Teacher Francesco Federico Calemi
Teachers
  • Francesco Federico Calemi
Hours
  • 25 ore - Francesco Federico Calemi
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline M-FIL/02
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents Epistemologia e forme di inferenza nelle scienze mediche
Reference texts 1) F. Calemi, Cattive argomentazioni: come riconoscerle, Carocci

2) F. Calemi, Argomentare, dimostrare, confutare, Carocci
Educational objectives Il corso mira a far apprendere le questioni logico-epistemolgiche principali riguardanti la nozione di inferenza, spaziando dalla prassi argomentativa ordinaria alla pratica scientifica.
Prerequisites Nessuno
Teaching methods Lezioni frontali
Learning verification modality Lo studente dovrà consegnare al Docente almeno 10 giorni dell'appello una tesina, cioè una semplice ricerca resa in forma di breve saggio, su uno dei temi del programma di studi. La tesina dovrà essere in formato word e di lunghezza compresa tra le 5 e le 10 pagine (2000 caratteri per pagina). La tesina dovrà essere consegnata tramite upload al seguente indirizzo: https://www.compilatio.net/cartella/7v928
Extended program 1. Filosofia della scienza e tipologie di inferenza
2. Inferenza e argomentazione
3. Inferenza e dimostrazione
4.Errori inferenziali

HEALTH PROMOTION

Code GP004812
CFU 2
Teacher Giancarlo Pocetta
Teachers
  • Giancarlo Pocetta
Hours
  • 25 ore - Giancarlo Pocetta
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Scienze umane, politiche della salute e management sanirario
Academic discipline MED/42
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)

PSYCOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIP

Code GP004814
CFU 1
Teacher Giulia Menculini
Teachers
  • Giulia Menculini
Hours
  • 12.5 ore - Giulia Menculini
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Clinica psichiatrica e discipline del comportamento
Academic discipline MED/25
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents - Model of Psychiatric interview
- Interviewing clinical examination and history taking
- Communication variables
Reference texts Roberto Quartesan (a cura di). Manuale di Psichiatria. Nuova edizione aggiornata al DSM 5. Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, 2014.

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th Edition. American Psychiatric Association. Washington D.C. 2013. Edizione italiana R. Cortina. Milano, 2014.
Educational objectives The essential aim of the teaching is to provide the students with useful concepts to the basic knowledge of the discipline. The most important acquired skills are about:

- Model of Psychiatric interview
- Interviewing clinical examination and history taking
- Communication variables
Prerequisites In order to understand the contents of the teaching and to reach the learning aims, it is necessary to have some general culture elements.
Teaching methods Lectures about the above mentioned topics and clinical cases.
Other information https://www.terni.unipg.it/strutture/sede-medicina

Assistance for students with disabilities and/or learning disabilities: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Learning verification modality The exam is divided into:

- an oral test: a 10 minutes discussion for the assessment of the acquired knowledge of the student. The test will take in consideration the pertinence of the acquired lexicon.

- a written test: there will be three sessions (summer, fall and winter sessions); the test is based on the appropriateness of the theoretical knowledge and of the capability in understanding and differentiate. In particular, it is composed by 15 multiple choice questions, with 3 questions for each teaching topic. The test will be passed with 9 right questions. Average test time: 20 minutes.
Extended program - Doctor-patient relationship
- Model of Psychiatric interview
- Interviewing clinical examination and history taking
- Psychiatric interview
- The compliance
- Communication variables

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Code GP004810
CFU 2
Teacher Enrico Capodicasa
Teachers
  • Enrico Capodicasa
Hours
  • 25 ore - Enrico Capodicasa
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Inglese scientifico e abilità linguistiche, informatiche e relazionali, pedagogia medica, tecnologie avanzate e a distanza di informazione e comunicazione
Academic discipline MED/02
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The Course is intended to provide the student with an overall vision of the evolution of medical treatment in a perspective of an ever-increasing awareness of the historico-cultural and scientific-metodology developments of the medical profession, making him critical participant of the roots, history and dimension of his future, the epistemologic characteristic, discoveries, applications and dynamic progress of professional, individual, anthropologic and social developments.
Reference texts Textbooks:
• L.R. Angeletti, V. Gazzaniga: Storia, filosofia ed etica generale della medicina. Masson Editore, 2002.
• R.A Bernabeo, G.M. Pontieri, G.B. Scarano. Elementi di Storia della Medicina. Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p.A, 1993.
• B. Zanobio. G.Armocida: Storia della Medicina. Biblioteca Medica Masson. 2002.

Any further integrative material will be supplied during the lessons.
Educational objectives At the end of the Course the student should:
• Know how to fit into a historical perspective the evolution of concepts regarding the human body, health and illness
• Have a dynamic view of the principal developments in the theory and practice of medicine
• Have an overall view of the developments and the value of the knoweledge and medical-scientific activity which will enable him and provide him with an immediate and critical awareness of the progress made, state reached, debate about and the challenges facing modern-day medicine.
Prerequisites None
Learning verification modality Final evaluation:
This will be the sum of the average of makes obtained in the tests taken and passed in the single teaching courses.
Extended program Subjects of Lessons

1. Introduction to the history of Medicine. Medicine in its origins and the evolution of the concepts of illness. Paleomedicine and Paleopathology. Medicine in the first written documents.
2. Medicine in Ancient Greece and the Hippocratical revolution. Hellenistic Medicine and Alexandrinan library.
3. The medical schools of Ancient Rome. Galenic medicine.
4. Medieval medicine: Early Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages
5. Renaissance medicine and the birth of modern medicine
6. Medicine in the century of scientific revolution
7. 18th Century medicine
8. Medicine in the first half of the 19th Century
9. Medicine in the second half of the 19th Century
10. The state and challenges of modern medicine, discoveries, application of technologies, new diagnostic possibilities, prognoses, therapies and predictions. Frontiers in predictive and evidence-based medicine.
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