Medicine and Surgery

Learning outcomes: To encourage interdisciplinary and inter-professional collaboration, the course aims to provide basic knowledge on the functions of the mind (perception, attention, emotions and emotion regulation, learning, memory, language, consciousness, reasoning), on the main individual and personality characteristics and on the most relevant psycho -social processes for the promotion and protection of health in clinical medical settings. At the end of the course the student must: a) know the psychological processes relevant to the activity of the doctor and other health professionals; b) understand the role of subjective factors in the evaluation of cases and effects of treatment; c) recognize the relevance to health of behaviors and subjective well-being; d) know some psychological models and constructs relevant for self-regulation and implementation of behavior change intentions; e) know the stress and burn out processes and some principles for stress management; f) know the main orientations of psychoeducational interventions, counseling and psychotherapies. The skills to apply the knowledge learned will be stimulated through the discussion of cases and problems in the classroom. The ability to understand, communicate and reflect critically will be prompted by asking each student to review one or two of the summary presentations on the crucial notions of the chapters of the 3d edition of the textbook prepared by colleagues of previous years and to update them with respect to the new 4th edition of the text (due on March 1 2019).