Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
SCIENZE UMANE - channel 2
Teaching Staff
SALVATORE SQUILLACI - Module PRINCIPI DI DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGIA - M-DEA/01 - 2 CFUIGNAZIO VECCHIO - Module STORIA DELLA MEDICINA - MED/02 - 2 CFU
IGNAZIO VECCHIO - Module BIOETICA MEDICA - MED/02 - 2 CFU
Learning Objectives
- STORIA DELLA MEDICINA
The History of Medicine aims to provide the student in Medicine with the contents and paths of the evolution of medical thought over time, to contribute to the acquisition of knowledge and useful references to the present, with the aim of enriching the culture of student in Medicine and to make it a useful asset for research, clinic and assistance
Detailed Course Content
- BIOETICA MEDICA
The role of medical bioethics. Informed Consent and Medical-Patient Report. Humanization of Medicine. Quality of life: Clinic and Assistance for subjects suffering from serious chronic disabling and invalidating diseases. Vegetative State: Clinical Frameworks, care choices, support for vital functions, hydration, nutrition, quality of life. Therapeutic persistence, terminal illness, Euthanasia. Vegetative state. Brain death. Doctor's choices in clinical and care management at the end of life. The Clinical Frameworks and their management. ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) PEG and assisted ventilation. Genetic pathologies and their clinical pictures. Oncological pathologies. The elderly patient and his clinical and care management.
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