- Docente: Giorgio Ercolani
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/18
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The Course has the following aims:
1) to explain the relationship between art and science
2) to explain how a doctor might be as an artist while treating a patient and doing his work
The student gets information about the diagnosis and treatment of a patient and how to manage him, considering that there is not only a scientific vision but also an human vision.
Course contents
The medecine is not only a precise science but also an art.
Several discoveries have been made due to different factors not Always based on science.
The course tries to show th relationship between art and science; tries to puntualize the role of humanities in the relation to the patient; tries to evaluate the role of a doctor as a scientist and an artist in the treatment of the patient.
The course evaluates the following themes:
medecine and discoveries; the methods of scientists; to be a Teacher; education and teaching methods
Readings/Bibliography
The Lancet, Volume 371, Issue 9606, Page 14, 5 January 2008
The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9740, Page 500, 14 August 2010
Teaching methods
Video and slides during the lessons
The Lancet, Volume 371, Issue 9606, Page 14, 5 January 2008
The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9740, Page 500, 14 August 2010
Assessment methods
Quiz with multiple choices. At least 50%+1 must be right
Teaching tools
slides
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Ercolani