CODE 117554 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 2 cfu anno 1 SCIENZE E TECNICHE DELLO SPORT 11890 (LM-68 R) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR BIO/14 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SPORTS PERFORMANCE 2 AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The educational objective of the course is to provide knowledge of the interaction between drugs and sports performance, with particular attention to the doping properties of drugs and the problem of Doping in sports. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The teaching of pharmacology in sports and doping is aimed to describe the use the counterindications and the toxicity of the most relevanr drugs used to treat acute or chronic conditions associated with sports, and odten abused with doping purposes. Many of these drugs are hygly toxic and inserted in the prohibited list of almost every antidoping agencies in the world thus posing a relevant danger to athletes health and their careeers. Hence, the most important outcome of the teaching of pharmacology is forming personnel capable to detect a pharmacological abuse from a correct use and rise among their trainees the awareness of the harm of doping TEACHING METHODS The teaching will be held in form of frontal classes. in aulaweb section of UNIGE website students may download PDF files corresponfing to the powerpoint presentation that will be showed in the classroom. A microsoft team channel will be shared at the beginning of the course to perform classes in case of severe meteo alerts. Students with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, may want to contact the teacher and the dedicated SLD representative in the Department before class begins, to liaise and arrange the specific teaching methods so that the learning aims and outcomes may be met. SYLLABUS/CONTENT WADA (Wolrld Anti-Doping Agency) The prohibited list Monitoring program Pharmacologic therapies in emergency Pharmacological treatment of allergic attack (Anti-hystamine drugs, glucocorticoids, epinephrine) Pharmacological control of broncospasm (beta-2 agonists, glucocorticoids, leukotriens inhibitors) Pharmacological control of pain (FANS, acetoaminophene, opiates, adiuvant drugs, miorelaxants) Pharmacological approach to cardiac emergencies (acetylsalicilic acid, antianginal drugs, beta blockers, diuretics) RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY FARMACOLOGIA. Principi di base e applicazioni terapeutiche Franco Rossi; Vincenzo Cuomo; Carlo Ricciardi. V edizione Casa editrice: Edizioni Minerva medica Power point slides that are going to be shown during classes will be uploaded as PDF files on aulaweb secrion of UNIGE website.. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD STEFANO THELLUNG DE COURTELARY Ricevimento: Meetings with students will be held, upon appointment, at the ex Inst. of Pharmacology. Address: Viale Benedetto XV, 2. Genova, ground floor Phone +39 0103538884. email: stefano.thellung@unige.it . LESSONS LESSONS START The teaching of pharmacology in sport and doping belongs to the second semester of first year of the course. Therefore, lessons will start in the month of march. Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Exams will be held in form of interviews, in presence only. Students with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs,will be examined according with the rules that has been certified by University of Genova (extra-time in written tests, or the use of conceptual maps, upon the approval by the teacher, for interviews). ASSESSMENT METHODS Interviews will address student's capacity to know the most relevant pharmacological therapies among sport pratictioners and balance their utility with their toxicity, Particular emphasis will be placed on their capacity to raise awareness of the danger of pharmacological abuse and doping among their present of future students. Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals Good health and well being Quality education