Professional Management
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
- Know the working models of production systems, with particular reference to the health system
- Understand and evaluate the functioning of the organization of a healthcare company according to specific objectives
- Recognize and evaluate laws and constraints of an economic and business nature, in order to develop interventions aimed at providing an effective contribution by the various participants in the organization
- Acquire and know how to use skills aimed at promoting and supporting innovation, creativity and organizational change
- Understand the psychological aspects of both individual and group behavior in the context of the group and the organization, with particular reference to the management of power and leadership
- To manage and solve organizational problems based on the integrated assessment of the technical, social, individual and institutional components, and according to the objectives to be achieved in terms of service to users and the role of the healthcare structure within the community
- Know the normative related to the prevention and protection of health and safety in the workplace.
- Understand and evaluate the functioning of the organization of a healthcare company according to specific objectives
- Recognize and evaluate laws and constraints of an economic and business nature, in order to develop interventions aimed at providing an effective contribution by the various participants in the organization
- Acquire and know how to use skills aimed at promoting and supporting innovation, creativity and organizational change
- Understand the psychological aspects of both individual and group behavior in the context of the group and the organization, with particular reference to the management of power and leadership
- To manage and solve organizational problems based on the integrated assessment of the technical, social, individual and institutional components, and according to the objectives to be achieved in terms of service to users and the role of the healthcare structure within the community
- Know the normative related to the prevention and protection of health and safety in the workplace.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the students will be able to:
- Know the normative references related to the prevention and protection of health and safety in the workplace and understand the activities related to prevention and the protection of health and safety in the workplace in a healthcare company
- Know the classification of health personnel, plan and optimize its management, including shift work and the detection of absence control; understand how to apply service orders and planning and control aspects;
-know the ethical and deontological aspects of the health sector professions
- Interpret and deepen the study of social, economic and political phenomena in which the regulation and collective action exercised by professional groups are relevant.
- Know the normative references related to the prevention and protection of health and safety in the workplace and understand the activities related to prevention and the protection of health and safety in the workplace in a healthcare company
- Know the classification of health personnel, plan and optimize its management, including shift work and the detection of absence control; understand how to apply service orders and planning and control aspects;
-know the ethical and deontological aspects of the health sector professions
- Interpret and deepen the study of social, economic and political phenomena in which the regulation and collective action exercised by professional groups are relevant.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge is required
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will consist of different modules depending on the courses: a written test will be proposed consisting of multiple-choice questions with the addition of some open questions. In addition, it will be possible, at the discretion of the teacher, to carry out an integrative oral test. For one of the occupational medicine modules the carrying out of an individual work (project work) is proposed.
Occupational medicine
Course syllabus
Working context changes
Workforce changes
Basic concepts of stress and its physiology (models: allostatic load; transactional)
Theories on occupational stress (Conservation Resources; Efforts-Rewards Imbalance; Demands-Control; Demands-Resources; Person-Environment Fit)
Organizational climate and healthy work
Psychosocial risk factors
Non-standard working hours and health
Non-standard labor provisions and health
Mistreatment at work and health
How psychosocial risk factors impact health
Psychosocial risk factors in practice: assessment methods
Intervention: prevention of psychosocial factors
Intervention: alert on distress and how to approach it
Intervention: The individual case
Workforce changes
Basic concepts of stress and its physiology (models: allostatic load; transactional)
Theories on occupational stress (Conservation Resources; Efforts-Rewards Imbalance; Demands-Control; Demands-Resources; Person-Environment Fit)
Organizational climate and healthy work
Psychosocial risk factors
Non-standard working hours and health
Non-standard labor provisions and health
Mistreatment at work and health
How psychosocial risk factors impact health
Psychosocial risk factors in practice: assessment methods
Intervention: prevention of psychosocial factors
Intervention: alert on distress and how to approach it
Intervention: The individual case
Teaching methods
Teaching will be carried out through frontal lessons, with concrete examples and discussion of case studies.
Teaching Resources
The teaching materials (power point slides; articles) will be provided by the teacher. For further information on specific topics, ask the teacher himself.
Applied medical techniques
Course syllabus
· The Health Departments
· The technical area health professions - Professionals in health and regulatory evolution
· Reference legislation for the public sector - Service orders - Service hours - Planning and control in healthcare
· The technical area health professions - Professionals in health and regulatory evolution
· Reference legislation for the public sector - Service orders - Service hours - Planning and control in healthcare
Teaching methods
The course will include lectures, with presentation and discussion of case studies. Students will also work in groups on specific issues.
Teaching Resources
Guerrieri Wolf, Mauro Petrangeli. Edises
- Economia e Management per le professioni sanitarie. A cura di Antonello Zangrandi - McGrawHill.
- Materiale didattico fornito dal docente
- Economia e Management per le professioni sanitarie. A cura di Antonello Zangrandi - McGrawHill.
- Materiale didattico fornito dal docente
Economic sociology and sociology of work and organisations
Course syllabus
The concept of profession in the Italian legal system and in the sociology of professions Il concetto di professione nell'ordinamento giuridico italiano e nella sociologia delle professioni.
The main theoretical approaches of the sociology of professions
- Talcott Parsons and the functionalism;
- Harold Wilensky and the steps in professionalization;
- neo-marxist theories (Haug, Oppenheimer);
- neo-weberian theories of power and monopoly (Abbott; Sarfatti Larsson; Parkin);
- the interactionsim: Eliot Freidson and the concept of professional dominance.
Doctors and their professionalization. From the middle age to the XIX century (short historical notes). The professionalization of doctors from the XX century to nowadays. Eliot Freidson and the concept of medical dominance. Current debate on medical dominance.
Doctors in Italy and their professionalization from the Italian unification to nowadays. The medical dominance in the Italian case. Italian doctors in the NHS.
The "other" health professions. Distinctive features of the Italian case. Short notes on the professionalization of nurses.
The health professions of prevention: the professionalization of the environment and work prevention technicians. The professionalization of the health prevention assistants: raise, decline and resurgence of a profession
The technician health professions: the professionalization of health technicians in the care, diagnostic and rehabilitation areas.
Health professions' reform and the quest for professional orders. From the introduction of professional profiles to the Law No. 3/2018. The current debate.
The main theoretical approaches of the sociology of professions
- Talcott Parsons and the functionalism;
- Harold Wilensky and the steps in professionalization;
- neo-marxist theories (Haug, Oppenheimer);
- neo-weberian theories of power and monopoly (Abbott; Sarfatti Larsson; Parkin);
- the interactionsim: Eliot Freidson and the concept of professional dominance.
Doctors and their professionalization. From the middle age to the XIX century (short historical notes). The professionalization of doctors from the XX century to nowadays. Eliot Freidson and the concept of medical dominance. Current debate on medical dominance.
Doctors in Italy and their professionalization from the Italian unification to nowadays. The medical dominance in the Italian case. Italian doctors in the NHS.
The "other" health professions. Distinctive features of the Italian case. Short notes on the professionalization of nurses.
The health professions of prevention: the professionalization of the environment and work prevention technicians. The professionalization of the health prevention assistants: raise, decline and resurgence of a profession
The technician health professions: the professionalization of health technicians in the care, diagnostic and rehabilitation areas.
Health professions' reform and the quest for professional orders. From the introduction of professional profiles to the Law No. 3/2018. The current debate.
Teaching methods
The course will include lectures, with presentation and discussion of case studies. Students will also work in groups on specific issues.
Teaching Resources
- Tousijn W. (2000), Il sistema delle occupazioni sanitarie, Bologna, Il Mulino, chapters No. 1, 4, 6, 7; chapter 5 (only par. 1).
Suggested readings:
- Speranza L. (1999), I poteri delle professioni, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino;
Vicarelli G. (2010), Gli eredi di Esculapio. Medici e politiche sanitarie nell'Italia Unita, Roma, Carocci
Suggested readings:
- Speranza L. (1999), I poteri delle professioni, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino;
Vicarelli G. (2010), Gli eredi di Esculapio. Medici e politiche sanitarie nell'Italia Unita, Roma, Carocci
Applied medical techniques
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
Professor:
Tafuni Giovanni
Economic sociology and sociology of work and organisations
SPS/09 - ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
Professor:
Atzori Flavia
Occupational medicine
MED/44 - OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
Professors:
Campanini Paolo Maria, Carrer Paolo
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