99890 - THE DIMENSION OF HEALTH CARE

Learning outcomes

1. Treatment as an aid to caregiving 2. Quest for health, quest for salvation 3. The diseased person and the disease 4. The surprising birth of the hospitals and the new challenges

Course contents

1. Medicine and scientific enterprise.

2. Diagnostic method and scientific discoveries

3. Resources and needs: responsibility in management

4. Craft, technique and technology

The integrated course Ars Medica includes also the following arguments

ART, SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

1.the aesthetic experience

2.the underpinning neural mechanisms

3.pain and suffering, the neural basis of empathy.

4.the mirror neurons

THE DIMENSION OF HEALTH CARE

1. Treatment as an aid to caregiving

2. Quest for health, quest for salvation

3. The diseased person and the disease

4. The surprising birth of the hospitals and the new challenges

Readings/Bibliography

The Lancet, Volume 371, Issue 9606 [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol371no9606/PIIS0140-6736(08)X6002-7], Page 14, 5 January 2008

The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9740 [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol376no9740/PIIS0140-6736(10)X6142-6], Page 500, 14 August 2010

Teaching methods

Lectures with slides. At the end of each lecture a pdf with the powerpoint presentation will be distributed to students. Pdfs with the powerpoint presentations of the lectures will be the material to be reviewed for the written exam at the end of the course.

Attendance to learning activities is mandatory; the minimum attendance requirement to be admitted to the final exam is 66% of lessons. For Integrated Courses (IC), the 66% attendance requirement refers to the total amount of I.C. lessons. Students who fail to meet the minimum attendance requirement will not be admitted to the final exam of the course, and will have to attend relevant classes again during the next academic year.

Absences may be authorized upon receipt of proper justifying documentation, in case of illness or serious reasons. Excused absences do not count against a student’s attendance record to determine their minimum attendance requirement

Assessment methods

Written examination, consisting of:

-open questions on some of the paintings showed during the course

-multiple choices quiz

The final score will be computed by attributing a maximum score of 10 to each of the 3 questions, for a maximum final score of 50/30.
The evaluation of open questions is based on the following criteria:
1) Content skills or how detailed the candidate addresses the topic;
2) Exposing skills, i.e., how precise is the language used by the candidate to expose the concepts;
3) Argumentative skills, that is, how consistent and logical is the concatenation of the concepts presented.

Teaching tools

Frontal lectures with audio-visual material.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Cesare Maltoni