ASSISTANCE TO THE BIRTH Single channel
Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: DANIELE DI MASCIO
Module 1: HISTORY OF MEDICINE / BIOETHICS
- Activity type
- Scienze propedeutiche
- SSD
- MED/02
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 2
- Hours distribution
- 24 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- SILVIA MARINOZZI
Module 2: ASSISTANCE TO THE MANAGER IN BIRTH LABOR
- Activity type
- Scienze ostetriche
- SSD
- MED/47
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 4
- Hours distribution
- 48 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- DANIELE DI MASCIO
FEDERICA TOMAO
Giancarlo Santoni
Learning outcomes
Acquire practical skills in physiological birth assistance.
Recognize warning signs of complications and activate appropriate pathways.
Improve communication and emotional support for the woman and her partner.
Apply updated maternal and neonatal safety protocols.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the female genital system
Programme
Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE / BIOETHICS
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Evolutions and persistence in the Western medical thought.
Ontological notion of disease and the theurgic medicine in the Antiquity
The development of laic and rational medicine: Hippocrates by Cos
Medicus and chirurgus: the Roman medical specialties
The greek-roman tradition in the medieval culture: the hospitals in the Arab world; assistance and health-care in the Western world.
Universities and medical teaching: Vesalius and the development of the human anatomy in the XVI century
The “Science” revolution and the application of the experimental method of G. Galilei to the anatomo-physiology in the XVII century.
The influences of the Enlightenment thought on the development of the social role of medicine: hygiene and public health.
G.B. Morgagni and the development of the pathological anatomy; X. Bichat : histology and morbid anatomy; R. Virchow and the Cellular Pathology.
Hospitals and clinical medicine in the nineteenth century: T. Laennec and the exploration of the body; Experimental Medicine: C. Bernard and the new diagnostic reasoning, the concept of homeostasis; origins and development of the bacteriology and the microbiology: the antisepsis between Semmelweis and Lister; infectious diseases: L. Pasteur and the vaccination; the postulates of Henle and Koch;
Introduction to Bioethics: Historical Origins, principles and models of bioethics: the Nuremberg Code of 1947 to the "Belmont Report" of 1978, the Declaration of Helsinki and the informed consent; the Hippocratic Oath, professional deontological and medical ethics
Finally, the student must to know the history of the medical thought and be able to adopt the good medical practices
Module: ASSISTANCE TO THE MANAGER IN BIRTH LABOR
Induction of Labor
Labor and Delivery
Preterm Birth
Operative Vaginal Delivery
Intrapartum Ultrasound
Cesarean Section
Simulation Training
OASIS (Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries)
Evidence-Based Antepartum Care
Evidence-Based Postpartum Care
Term and Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM and PPROM)
Books
Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE / BIOETHICS
The teacher advises to deepen the theoretical topics of the lessons from the beginning of the course. For further information, the books are:
ANGELETTI L.R., GAZZANIGA V., Storia, filosofia ed etica generale della medicina. Milano, Masson, 2014
MARINOZZI S. (ed.), Medicina, eugenica e Shoah. Sapienza University Press, 2017
Gerrig R.J., Zimbardo P.G., Anolli L.M., Psicologia generale, Pearson Italia, Milano-Torino, 2012.
Le competenze relazionali in ambito sanitario. Per una formazione all'agire riflessivo di A. Cunti, F. Lo Presti, F. Sabatano ed. Carocci
Module: ASSISTANCE TO THE MANAGER IN BIRTH LABOR
Berghella. Evidence Based Obstetric Guidelines. IV edizione (2022)
Berghella. Evidence Based Maternal Fetal Guidelines. IV edizione (2022)
Bibliography
Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE / BIOETHICS
N/D
Module: ASSISTANCE TO THE MANAGER IN BIRTH LABOR
N/D
Lessons mode
lesson in presence
Frequency
lessons in presence
Exam mode
oral examination
Example exam questions
Description of the first stage of labor
Arguments
Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE / BIOETHICS
Module: ASSISTANCE TO THE MANAGER IN BIRTH LABOR
N/D
Sustainability goals
- Academic year2026/2027
- Degree program to which the course belongsMidwifery - Course A - Roma Azienda Policlinico Umberto I
- Mandatory presenceNo
- Languageita
- CFU6 CFU, distributed among 2 integrated didactic modules
- Total duration72 hours