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CODE 66920
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/25
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowledge of the evolution of thought and psychiatric rehabilitation practice with the use of a correct personal language in the psychiatric field.

Knowledge of the concepts of prevention strategies in mental health.

Knowledge of consultation psychiatry.

Ability to critically integrate clinical and scientific knowledge.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures with presentation of clinical cases.

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Prevention in medicine and mental health: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention with particular attention to suicide prevention (clinical, socio-demographic and environmental variables).

Consultation or liaison psychiatry: advantages and disadvantages in the hospital setting.

Theoretical and methodological foundations of Psychiatry.

Elements of diagnostics and nosographic classification of psychiatric disorders.

Diagnosis in psychiatry: primary and secondary criteria, difference between transversal and longitudinal diagnosis.

Elements of Psychiatric Semeiotics: evaluation of psychic functions including consciousness, vigilance, psychomotor behavior, cognitive functions, sense-perception, thought, affectivity, thought, fundamental instincts, criticism of illness.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Favaro A, Sambataro F. Manuale di Psichiatria. Piccin-Nuova Libraria, Italia, 2021.   

Iasevoli Felice. Manuale di psichiatria. Edizioni Minerva Medica, Italia, 2024.         

Power point material will also be provided to further integrate the contents of the textbook and lessons.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANDREA AGUGLIA (President)

ANNAPAOLA MAZZA

ANGELO OGGIANU

PAOLO PELOSO

ANDREA AMERIO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Lessons take place in the second semester.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is carried out orally. The exam is graded out of thirty and passing the exam is subject to obtaining a score of at least 18/30. Weighted average with the other modules of the integrated teaching/course.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam is developed with the aim of evaluating the learning of basic knowledge relating to the primary psychic functioning and the psychiatric diagnosis.

The exam will have the objective of ascertaining that the expected learning outcomes have been achieved through a critical evaluation of the knowledge acquired as well as through the candidate's ability to formulate possible solutions relating to specific psychopathological/psychiatric questions.

Students with LSD or other regularly certified special educational needs will be able to agree with the professor on the written or oral mode of the examination, by contacting professors at least 10 days before the exam. They will also be able to take advantage of 30 % additional time 

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
13/01/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale
27/01/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale
10/02/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale
16/06/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale
07/07/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale
21/07/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale
22/09/2025 09:30 GENOVA Orale

FURTHER INFORMATION

When a student is a certified LSD, it is required to contact the Referring Teacher of the DISABILITY and DSA Commission for DINOGMI: Prof. N. Girtler (nicolagirtler@unige.it ) and evaluated the single case, he will send to the teachers the necessary directions both for  lessons development  and for modality of examination