Ateneo - UPO

The course includes six parts: Anthropology, Bioethics applied to Pharmacological experimentation, Pedagogy, Medical Psychology, Bioethics and History of Medicine.

Materials will be provided by the teachers.

The course will provide basic information on the six disciplines. Specific subjects will be covered more in depth for each discipline.

General culture background, as acquired in the previous years of the Medical Course.

Videoprojector and PC are available in the class.
Ppt of the classes and scientific papers will be provided.

Written exam. All the five parts will be examined together. The student will reply to one question for each of the five parts of the course. The subject of the questions will be included in the course program. The final marks corresponds to the mean of the scores obtained in the six parts.

Anthropology
Basic concepts of medical anthropology.
The body as a cultural construction.
The anthropopoiesis.
The treatment of the disease in the Italian folk tradition: tarantism and the arch of the bramble.
Seminar activities.
• The origins of pedagogy.
• Pedagogy as a science.
• Man's behavior between nature and culture.
• Intelligence. Language. Creativity.
• Family. School. Society.
• Pedagogy and psychoanalysis, the study of personality

History of medicine
• Medicine in prehistory
• Greco-Roman medicine
• Arabian medicine in the middle ages
• Medicine in the European middle ages:
• Medicine in the Renaissance;
o 16th Century anatomy;
o 16th Century surgery
o The quantitative method in medicine: iatromechanics and iatrochemistry;
• Medicine and Surgery in the Seventeen Century;
o Anatomy and Physiology;
o Morgagni, the founder of anatomical pathology;
o vitalism;
o vaccines;
o the origin of clinical medicine.
• The Nineteen Century:
o The germ theory of disease
o Genetics;
o Histology and Pathology;
o Development of surgery: anesthesia, antisepsis, asepsis;
• The XX century
o Antimicrobial drugs and Antibiotics

Clinical psychology
AIDS
Burnout
Psychological currents
Counseling models
The group
The relationship and group dynamics
The stress
The defense mechanisms
Psychosomatics
Victimology

Pedagogy
• The origins of pedagogy.
• Pedagogy as a science.
• Man's behavior between nature and culture.
• Intelligence. Language. Creativity.
• Family. School. Society.
• Pedagogy and psychoanalysis, the study of personality

Bioethics definitions and fundamental principles
Laws governing clinical research
Informed consent
The rights and the dignity of the ill
Peculiarities of the different phases of clinical trials and of the different medical areas
Case studies of ethical issues arisen in the last 100 years of clinical trials.
Appropriate prescriptions and appropriate choice of medical interventions.
Role of the ethical committee.
Ethic of using placebo.

Knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of clinical psychology, pedagogy, anthropology, bioethics and history of medicine.
Applying knowledge and understanding to the general concepts of clinical psychology, pedagogy, anthropology, bioethics and history of medicine.