Medical Humanities

A.Y. 2024/2025
4
Max ECTS
48
Overall hours
SSD
M-FIL/02 MED/02
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
Modulo A - Progetto "First Approach to the Patient (FAP)" (Attività professionalizzante -

Clinical clerkship)A three-week attendance period following nurses in the assigned clinical divisions, will introduce each student to an early experience of patients' care. Briefing encounters in small groups before each attendance week, along with systematic debriefings after each week with the Chief Nurse and doctors in charge of patients, will foster an attitude towards attentive observation and reflection on care relationships; awareness of the inner experience and emotions moved by the encounter with the patients' world; appraisal of the importance of communicating emotions among health care professionals.

Modulo B - Progetto "Un metodo per il clinico"
This teaching project is closely linked to Modulo A. It aims to explore the illness experience through interactive, small-group activities followed by plenary sessions and formal classes; to inscribe such experience within the broader context of human frailty, vulnerability, relationality, empathy and care which characterize the "human condition" in the different philosophical traditions; to provide the groundings for a rational approach to patient care by exploring the logic, cognitive and ethical aspects of medical professionalism; to understand the processes enacted by patients to give meaning to illness symptoms; to attain the concepts of communication of the prognosis and decision sharing in health care.

Modulo C - Storia della Medicina
To enable the student reflect, within a historical perspective, on the response to human disease and illness, frailty and vulnerability, comparing their past and current interpretation; to appraise the changes occurred in the concept of medical professionalism over time.
Expected learning outcomes
Modulo A - Progetto "First Approach to the Patient (FAP)" (Attività professionalizzante - Clinical clerkship)
The student will learn to: interpret the disease/illness process and their care in a wider cultural context; gain full awareness of the relational aspects of care and the emotions arising from the patient encounter. He will be able: to reflect on the complex balance between involvement and detachment of health professionals in patients' care; to share his first experience in health care with other students and health professionals. The student will gain a full perspective of the integration between medical and nurse care of the patient.

Modulo B - Progetto "Un metodo per il clinico"
The student will gain a reflective approach to the cultural and relational aspects of health care; to patient-centered care; to the response of medical professionals to their involvement in health care relationships.

Modulo C - Storia della Medicina
The student will be able to put the current practices of care into a historical context, and to appreciate the changes over time in the notions of disease, illness, sickness, cure, and care.
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

Logic and Philosophy of Science
M-FIL/02 - LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 24 hours
: 12 hours
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Battezzati Pier Maria
Medical history
MED/02 - MEDICAL HISTORY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 12 hours
Professor: Porro Alessandro
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Porro Alessandro
Professor(s)
Reception:
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