Teaching code

4S00732

Credits

6

Coordinator

Mirella Ruggeri

Language

Italian

Location

VERONA

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

To acquire general knowledge on cultural, historical, scientific and normative evolution of the psychiatric care. General knowledge of the classification of mental disorders, of the ethio-pathogenetic models and of the prognosis. To acquire ability to place diagnoses and/or differential diagnostic hypotheses. Deepened knowledge of the evidence based psychopharmacology, with particular attention to the criteria to choose drugs, formulation of the treatment, maintenance therapy, short and long term adverse effects, toxicity from over-dosage, drugs interactions. General knowledge of the legislative and organizational aspects in psychiatry.

Prerequisites and basic notions

have passed the first three years

Program

Programma (in lingua inglese)
What is Psychiatry: an introductory presentation
Classification of mental disorders
General Psychopathology
Schizophrenia & other psychoses: epidemiology and clinic
Schizophrenia & other psychoses: course and outcome
Schizophrenia: pharmacotherapy
Depressive Disorders
Bipolar disorder
Suicide
Affective Disorders: Pharmacotherapy
Personality Disorders: classification and clinic
Strategies for psychological interventions
Alcohol and Substances of Abuse
Consultative Psychiatry
Eating disorders
Somatoform Disorders
Anxiety Disorders: an overview
Stress-related disorders
Organic Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders: Pharmacotherapy
Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in psychiatry
GP: mental disorders in basic medicine
Psychiatric Epidemiology
GP (or other theme)

Bibliography

Didactic methods

frontal lessons with the teacher's willingness to identify particular complex topics, helping the student to better understand them if necessary

Learning assessment procedures

THE EXAMINATION IS CARRIED OUT IN ORAL AND IN PRESENCE, EXCEPT FOR IMPORTANT PROBLEMS RELATING TO COVID OR OTHER SITUATIONS THAT PREVENT THE PRESENCE WITH REPORT BY A DOCTOR

Evaluation criteria

oral exam with evaluation of the candidate's preparation on the basis of the main psychic disorders and their recognition

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

in the thirtieth

Exam language

italiano