Corso integrato di medicina del lavoro
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
The Integrated Course in Occupational Medicine aims to provide students with a multidisciplinary understanding of health and safety in the workplace, with a focus on healthcare environments. Through the contributions of occupational medicine, radiation protection, visual ergonomics, and applied clinical psychology, the course offers essential knowledge of occupational hazards, preventive and protective strategies, as well as visual and psychological well-being at work. It promotes cross-disciplinary skills for health and safety promotion, effective patient communication, and self-awareness in managing one's professional experience.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the Integrated Course, students will be able to:
Understand the legal and organizational framework of workplace prevention in healthcare settings.
Identify and manage key occupational risks, including exposure to ionizing radiation, according to radiation protection principles.
Evaluate visual and environmental factors related to near-work visual load, with focus on asthenopia and visual discomfort.
Recognize psychological factors that influence patient communication and healthcare worker well-being.
Promote a person-centered and integrated approach to occupational health, grounded in prevention and safety.
Understand the legal and organizational framework of workplace prevention in healthcare settings.
Identify and manage key occupational risks, including exposure to ionizing radiation, according to radiation protection principles.
Evaluate visual and environmental factors related to near-work visual load, with focus on asthenopia and visual discomfort.
Recognize psychological factors that influence patient communication and healthcare worker well-being.
Promote a person-centered and integrated approach to occupational health, grounded in prevention and safety.
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
Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
Preliminary knowledge is not required
Assessment methods and Criteria
written
Radioprotezione
Course syllabus
1.Physical basis, principles of radiobiology
2.Radioprotection of Operators
3.Radiodiagnostics: indications and contraindications to diagnostic and interventional procedures; radiation protection of Patients
4.Nuclear Medicine: indications and contraindications to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; radiation protection of Patients
5.Radiotherapy: indications and contraindications to therapeutic procedures; radiation protection of Patients
2.Radioprotection of Operators
3.Radiodiagnostics: indications and contraindications to diagnostic and interventional procedures; radiation protection of Patients
4.Nuclear Medicine: indications and contraindications to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; radiation protection of Patients
5.Radiotherapy: indications and contraindications to therapeutic procedures; radiation protection of Patients
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Teaching Resources
Provided by teacher
Medicina del lavoro
Course syllabus
SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE.
The general regulatory framework, organization, and actors who play a role in the company's prevention system.
General concepts of risk assessment and prevention and protection in the workplace.
The main risks present in the health care environment: biological, chemical, physical and from manual handling of loads/patients.
Knowledge of and ability to use collective and individual prevention and protection measures.
The general regulatory framework, organization, and actors who play a role in the company's prevention system.
General concepts of risk assessment and prevention and protection in the workplace.
The main risks present in the health care environment: biological, chemical, physical and from manual handling of loads/patients.
Knowledge of and ability to use collective and individual prevention and protection measures.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Teaching Resources
Provided by teacher
Ergoftalmologia
Course syllabus
Vision in work environments.
Analysis and quantification of visual engagement in close work: accommodation and convergence.
Lighting in work environments.
Asthenopia and ocular discomfort syndrome in close work.
Role of heterophores, refractive defects and ocular surface disorders in the visual discomfort syndrome of near work.
Analysis and quantification of visual engagement in close work: accommodation and convergence.
Lighting in work environments.
Asthenopia and ocular discomfort syndrome in close work.
Role of heterophores, refractive defects and ocular surface disorders in the visual discomfort syndrome of near work.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Teaching Resources
Provided by teacher
Psicologia del Lavoro
Course syllabus
Clinical psychology: different theories and approaches
Disease management and patient resources
Communication with the patient: relational aspects
The foreign patient: experience of illness and communication with the health care provider
The experience of health care workers: job satisfaction and burnout
Disease management and patient resources
Communication with the patient: relational aspects
The foreign patient: experience of illness and communication with the health care provider
The experience of health care workers: job satisfaction and burnout
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Teaching Resources
Provided by teacher
Ergoftalmologia
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Mainetti Claudia
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Mainetti Claudia
Medicina del lavoro
MED/44 - OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Bollati Valentina
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Bollati Valentina
Psicologia del Lavoro
M-PSI/06 - WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Radioprotezione
MED/36 - IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Ottobrini Luisa
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Ottobrini LuisaProfessor(s)