Teaching code

4S01556

Teacher

Maria Francesca De Rinaldis

Coordinator

Maria Francesca De Rinaldis

Credits

21

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY

Period

2 SEMESTRE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE dal Jan 7, 2025 al Sep 30, 2025.

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The first year of internship includes an initial exposure to health contexts of prevention at Health Districts, Addiction Services, “A.M.A.” Self-Mutual Aid Centers, Epidemiological Observatory, Territorial Operational Unit of the Italian Society of Medicine of Migration, Counselling centres for the individual, the couple and the family for the development of assessment and surveillance skills.

In the 2nd year, in the laboratory activities and in the professional internship, students will experience specific prevention interventions, screening, vaccination campaigns and counselling, and specific health education projects and interventions. They will begin to be familiar with the consultation of guidelines, reading of scientific articles.

The 3rd year is aimed at learning methodologies to promote health within schools, workplaces, care institutions, addiction recovery centres and specific settings such as prisons.

Students will challenge their selves in designing public health emergency plans with particular attention to the various forms and methods of risk communication to the population and information on environmental risk factors in all possible contexts of interest.
They will learn a multi-professional approach, the organization of services and territorial networks that promote health, the value of involving proximity figures and the creation of intersectoral networks and alliances, and the main aspects of planning and conducting epidemiological studies, and performing critical analysis of the results of published studies.

Learning outcomes
- Participate in vaccination campaigns to improve vaccination coverage of the population in the area.
- Apply the main methods of investigation of epidemics and pandemics.
- Participate in educational and screening campaigns.
- Identify community facilities and resources:
- Train in the manoeuvres of first aid, detection and monitoring of vital signs and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Carry out surveillance, prophylaxis and containment of infectious diseases.
- Design and implement actions of primary and secondary prevention of infectious diseases, occupational diseases, chronic degenerative diseases, cancer, etc.. using models and actions based on scientific evidence.
- Perform manoeuvres of first aid, detection and monitoring of vital signs and cardiopulmonary resuscitation and adopt during the preventive techniques (vaccination, screening, etc.) ways to reduce pain procedural.
- Design innovative educational methods, with social channels and languages closer to the target in order to spread the culture of prevention.
- Activate methodologies of network work, in order to integrate the work and health expertise with the social one.
- Conduct a motivational interview and counselling.
- Evaluate with qualitative-quantitative methods the outcomes of educational and counselling interventions.
- Collaborate in using the main information and communication technologies (ICT) that support health promotion and education and use the most common ones.
- Plan prevention programs in areas such as nutrition, fitness, weight control, smoking cessation, aging, addictions, and stress management to develop life skills.
- Activate networking methodologies in order to integrate health and social work expertise.
- Design and collaborate on health promotion interventions aimed at specific groups or patients and settings.
- Manage educational interventions to individuals or groups in different settings (community, school, etc.).
- Communicate in an appropriate way (verbal, non-verbal, written), establishing relationships with individual users, groups, families, businesses and the community for the purpose of promoting health.
- Apply individual and group counselling techniques for health promotion and education (empowerment).
- Collaborate actively in the dissemination of correct messages, supported by scientific evidence, countering the spread of contradictory and / or misleading information (fake news).
- Use, with other professionals, dashboards/databases/archives of health and administrative data to support and inform decisions.
- Seek the information needed to resolve problems or uncertainties regarding professional practice, critically selecting sources.
- Use and repurpose the self-study plan (contract learning) to identify own learning needs, seek opportunities, and demonstrate the skills achieved.

Examination methods: The evaluation of the internship activity will be:
- Formative: with the purpose of appreciating the evolution and progress of the student within the continuum of his/her path; the student becomes aware of his/her learning progress and helped to orient and design learning towards the expected educational objectives. It is carried out by the student (self-assessment), by peers and by experts (feedback). It is structured at the end of each internship experience through the formative evaluation form and an individual interview with the student.
- Certifying: consists of an annual evaluation, which documents the level achieved with respect to the objectives expected per year. This evaluation will be a synthesis of the formative evaluations of the single internship experiences, the profit achieved in the report, the self-assessment and the performance demonstrated during the internship examination.

The internship examination consists of a structured examination in stations, each of which evaluates in an objective and standardized manner specific technical, design, relational, and educational skills chosen from the pool of educational objectives related to the year of the course.
The final evaluation will be a collegial evaluation, formalized with the final internship examination, carried out by a Commission composed of the Coordinator of the bachelor degree, academic teachers and tutors.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The student who successfully completes the year-long internship without missing the scheduled hours may be admitted to the annual internship exam.

Program

The 3rd year is aimed at learning the methodologies to promote health within schools, workplaces, healthcare institutions, addiction recovery centers and specific settings such as prisons. Students will experiment with the design of inclusion interventions, public health emergency plans with particular attention to the various forms and methods of risk communication to the population and information on environmental risk factors in all possible contexts of interest.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

- briefing: a few days before the start of the experience conducted by the coordinator to prepare the student from a cognitive, emotional and safety point of view for the experience itself - debriefing in small groups during the period of the experience - assignment of learning activities consistent with the training objectives - participatory observation and gradual assumption of an active role in the supervised "doing" - questioning, thinking aloud and feedback - contract learning - written reports - exercises

Learning assessment procedures

Evaluation of the ability to apply theoretical content to practical activity: the analysis will be related to the learning activities of the course year. Evaluation of technical operational skills in a simulated situation.

Evaluation criteria

The level of professional, technical, operational and relational skills achieved during the internship, the commitment and quality of written papers, the application of theory to practice.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The evaluation of the internship activity will be: - formative with the aim of appreciating the evolution and progress of the student within the continuum of his path, the student becomes aware of his learning progress and through it is helped to orient and plan learning towards the expected educational objectives. It is carried out by the student (self-assessment), among peers and by experts (feedback). It is structured at the end of each individual internship experience through the formative evaluation sheet and an individual interview with the student. - certifying is an annual evaluation, which documents the level achieved with respect to the expected objectives for the year. This evaluation expressed in thirtieths (30ths) will be the synthesis of: - formative evaluations of the individual internship experiences (about 60/70%): the elements considered are the constant evolution of the student and his commitment, the degree of complexity of the skill and the degree of "prerequisite" for achieving the skills expected for the following year. - achieved profit of the reports and/or self-learning plans (10-20%) and - demonstrated performance during the internship exam (20%). It is carried out at the end of each year of the course to decide whether the student can access the following year or the internships of the following year depending on what is provided for in the Teaching Regulations. The evaluation uses a multi-method approach, it can be differentiated into inside and outside the internship and global evaluation methods

Exam language

Italiano