The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to understand the responsibilities of the Radiographer, respect for ethics and professional ethics, prevention, protection and management of health in the workplace as well as the main methods of research and analysis of scientific literature.

DEONTOLOGY AND REGULATION OF PROFESSIONAL EXERCISE: at the end of the course the student must be able to understand and apply behaviors in practice in the respect of ethics and professional ethics. must know the main regulations concerning the responsability of the TSRM, must know the code of deontology of 2004.

LEGAL MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS: acquisition of basic skills in Forensic Medicine, with reference to essentialia in the areas of Professional Ethics and Responsibility Health Professional, as well as in the expert's activities for identification purposes.

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE OF RADIOLOGY This course will give to the future radiographer an overview of the tools to find and critically evaluate the scientific literature. The student will learn how to query online databases and how to apply to the clinical and research activity the latest findings and guidelines published by the scientific and medical communities.

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH: to acquire basic knowledge and understanding on health and safety prevention and health promotion and management in workplaces. To acquire, through field examples, knowledge and understanding about general principles of occupational health, risk assessment, health surveillance, fitness for work, legislation, with reference to different risk factors (e.g., chemicals, physical agents, biohazards, ergonomics, organization and psychosocial factors, injuries) and focussing on medical radioprotection.. Attention will be dedicated to let the student acquire knowledge and understanding about the roles of the different professionals and institutions committed to prevention. The student will acquire knowledge and awareness on the main risk factors, adverse effects and their prevention in the professional activities of radiology technician.

Learning assessment procedures

Written papers
Oral exams
Case discussions consistent with the objective of understanding the radiological context and systems/equipment in use
group work with formative assessment during assessment with OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) station examinations with stations consistent with the teaching objectives or integrated with other professional learning areas

Evaluation criteria

He assessment elements that contribute to the awarding of the grade are:
-knowledge and the ability to understand,
-the ability to apply knowledge,
-autonomy of judgment, that is, the ability to make critical sense and formulate judgments,
-the ability to communicate.

In evaluating the individual tests and awarding the grade, the teaching teachers refer to the following scale for assessing learning.
Lower than 18 : Fragmentary and superficial knowledge of content, errors in applying concepts, poor exposition
18 - 20 : Sufficient but general content knowledge, simple exposition, uncertainties in applying theoretical concepts
21 - 23 : Appropriate but not thorough content knowledge, ability to apply theoretical concepts, ability to present content in a simple way
24 - 25 : Appropriate and extensive content knowledge, fair ability to apply knowledge, ability to present content in an articulate manner.
26 - 27 : Content knowledge accurate and complete, good ability to apply knowledge, ability to analyze, clear and correct exposition
28 - 29 : Broad, complete and thorough knowledge of content, good application of content, good ability to analyze and synthesize, confident and correct exposition,
30 or 30 cum laude : Very broad, complete and in-depth content knowledge, well-established ability to apply content, excellent ability to an