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Free choice courses
This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:
Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e chirurgia - Enrollment from 2025/2026| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher | |
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| 5° | Surgical anatomy of head and neck | D | Not yet assigned | |
| 6° | Basic course ECG and interactive interpretation | D | Not yet assigned | |
| 5° 6° | Multiple Sclerosis and demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system: from diagnosis to therapy | D | Not yet assigned | |
| 5° 6° | Sicurezza del paziente e gestione del rischio clinico | D | Not yet assigned | |
Introduction to medical Humanities (2015/2016)
The teaching is organized as follows:
TIROCINIO DI SCIENZE PROPEDEUTICHE ALLA PROFESSIONE MEDICA
Credits
3
Period
See the unit page
Academic staff
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Learning outcomes
Module: SCIENZE UMANE
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Introduction to the approach that are typical of social sciences in the study of health/disease issues and sociology of medicine.
Module: PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
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Teaching objectives
How to collect useful clinical information
Building the relationship with the patient
Explanation, planning and sharing decisions
Develop personal awareness during clinical consultations
An overall curriculum of doctor-patient communication skills will be presented, in terms of
Process
a. How to structure a medical consultation
b. How to collect bio-psyco-social information
c. How to build doctor-patient relationship
d. How to give information and build up a common ground with the patient
Content:
a. Factors related to cure and care
b. the bio-psyco-social model
c. Emotions and non-verbal comunication
d. Attachment theory, motivational systems and the role of interpersonal relationships
e. Evidences on the role of doctor-patient communication
f. Self awareness and burn-out
g. How to deal difficult relationships with patients.
h. The“Process Model of Stress and Coping”.
Module: TIROCINIO DI SCIENZE PROPEDEUTICHE ALLA PROFESSIONE MEDICA
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Program
Module: SCIENZE UMANE
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Issues during this year's course are the following:
- relationships between social sciencea and medicine; how bio-medicine affects social science theories and research;how social scienceds affect medical theories and related behaviors;
- social research and humanistic outcome measures: patient-reported outcomes (PRO); quality of life (QoL) and clinical research;
- Examples of specifically applications.
Module: PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
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Program (16 hours)
25 March Clinical Psychology, to cure, to care), the bio-psyco-social model of illness.
1 April Patient-centred approach, the structure of the consultation, doctor and patient agenda. How to collect information
8 aprile Emotions and non-verbal communication
15 aprile Attachment theroy, motivational systems and their role in interpersonal relationships
22 aprile How to inform, educate and involve the patient. How to deal with “difficult” relationships with patients and families.
29 aprile Patients with unexplained symptoms. How to deal with them. The reattribution model.
6 maggio The“Process Model of Stress and Coping”.
13 maggio Self awareness. “Burn out”
Module: TIROCINIO DI SCIENZE PROPEDEUTICHE ALLA PROFESSIONE MEDICA
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Bibliography
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Del Piccolo Lidia | Competenze per comunicare con i pazienti | Piccin | 2015 | ||
| Del Piccolo | Dispense fornite a lezione |
Examination Methods
Module: SCIENZE UMANE
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Questionnaires with multiple response items and open ended questions
Materials for the exam:
Slides from the lessons, downladable from the following website
https://elearning.univr.it/j/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=457
Letture reperibili presso la biblioteca Meneghetti (cartella dedicata):
a) Niero M., Polettini P. (2008). Introduzione: le molte facce del concetto di salute nelle scienze sociali. In La salute dei mantovani: epidemiologia e percezione delle differenze (a cura di M.Niero e P.Polettini), Franco Angeli, Milano (pp.13-36). [La parte dell’introduzione di interesse per l’esame è quella redatta specificamente da M.Niero: pp.13-26]
b) Garrino L.(2010). La medicina narrativa nella cura e nella formazione. In Garrino L.(a cura di) La medicina narrativa nei luoghi di formazione di cura, EDI-Hermes Milano (pp.5-23).
c) NIERO M.(2008). Gli esiti riferiti dal paziente, fra medicina e scienze sociali. In M.Niero, La personalizzazione nella ricerca quantitativa per la valutazione della salute e degli esiti riferiti dal pazienti,
Angeli Milano: (pp.13-32).
d) Niero M. (2010). Qualità percepita e soddisfazione del paziente (Bozza non pubblicata)(pp.1-12).
One of the following texts:
e1) Vezzoni P.(2010). Determinismo genetico. In Neodarwiniso e scienze sociali (Roberto Vignera a cura di), Angeli Milano (pp.57-74).
e2) Giacca M.(2010). Genes and human behavior. Towards a new determinism on genetic bases? Salute e Società, IX (3).(pp.13-23).
Esempi di PRO di diverse generazioni possono essere viste ai seguenti siti web, in cui è possibile trovare demo online:
Questionario SF-36:
http://crc.marionegri.it/qdv/index.php?page=sf36
http://crc.marionegri.it/qdv/questionari/sf36/sf36v1ita.htm
Questionario PGWBI:
http://crc.marionegri.it/qdv/index.php?page=pgwbi
http://crc.marionegri.it/qdv/questionari/pgwbi/pgwbi.htm
PROMIS DEMO (nella Demo, un programma ad hoc estrae le domande da una item bank, a seconda delle risposte fornite man mano dal rispondente; ciascuna di queste domande è stata pre-calibrata nell’item bank per “difficoltà” ed estratta a secondo il livello di problema che viene manifestato dal rispondente durante l’intervista).
https://www.assessmentcenter.net/ac1/Default.aspx?SID=D4EB936B-D46D-420B-86CC-7FE08FBAE9C9
Module: PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
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written exam with multiple choice and open questions
Module: TIROCINIO DI SCIENZE PROPEDEUTICHE ALLA PROFESSIONE MEDICA
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