Psychology, Healt and Medicine

The course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to consciously manage communicative-relational aspects in their future medical profession. For this purpose, the teaching is divided into two parts: in the first part, through frontal lessons and non-formal teaching, will be provided the fundamentals of psychology essential for an understanding of the mechanisms and processes underlying individual and social behavior; in the second part, through frontal lessons and professionalizing activities, knowledge, skills and competences essential for the relationship and communication between doctor and patient will be provided.

The student will attain knowledge on the building blocks of human behavior, its changes during the life span and its adjustment to life events and circumstances, including disease. The student will acquiretools and strategies to adequately manage the communication with patients, their relatives and other health professionals, taking into account one's and others' values; the ability and sensitivity to critically assess medical practices within the healthcare team through the knowledge of rules and processes characterizing team work; an interdisciplinary and inter-cultural openness, specifically aware of differences in values and habits within the current multiethnic society.