AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Define, describe, and identify the metabolic modifications of the organism during pregnancy;
• Define, describe, and identify the circulatory modifications underlying placentation, exchange, and fetal nutrition;
• Discriminate the most common symptoms during pregnancy and childbirth;
• Justify and correctly present the most common modifications of the pregnant woman's body;
• Justify and present the correct dietary or physical habits of the pregnant woman;
• Defining, describing, justifying, and operating appropriately within the surveillance programs of maternal-fetal well-being concerning the professional skills of the midwife
• Support women or families towards models of normal birth that put women's well-being and choice at the center
• Ability to identify one's abilities, concentrate and reflect, criticize a task, manage complexity, make decisions and carry out tasks independently, seek support if necessary, stress management, and resilience.
• Awareness of one's own learning strategies, organization, and assessment of personal learning as understood and learned, understanding of one's own needs and ways of developing skills, and ability to identify and pursue learning objectives.

TEACHING METHODS

The educational method consists of training activities divided into classroom lectures on all program topics, followed by a second phase in which the students are divided into groups. Each group will be responsible for identifying a guideline applicable in Italy for pregnancy and preparing a presentation on the topic. During the first portion of the course, which provides knowledge via frontal lectures, clinical scenarios will be presented in parallel to be solved using the information presented in the frontal lectures.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

- Modifications of the maternal organism during pregnancy:
• The metabolic and cardiovascular aspects necessary for the physiology of pregnancy;
• The physiology of exchange;
• The progressive involvement of all organs and systems;
• Nutritional and physical needs during pregnancy;
- Aspects of pregnancy care within the skills of the midwife:
• Need to monitor maternal-fetal well-being;
• Basic assistance programs for pregnant women;
• Information and support programs provided by the Italian national health system.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pescetto, De Cecco, Pecorari, Ragni "Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics" SEU.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

VIRGINIA MICHELERIO (President)

ANDREA BRUGNOLO

FEDERICA GENTILE

AMBROGIO PIETRO LONDERO

MATILDE MARIA CANEPA (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

See timetable in Aulaweb

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written and oral.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The assessment method consists of a written test (multiple and open-ended questions with short answers to be solved in 30 minutes) followed by an oral examination.

Exam schedule