The syllabus is structured around the thematic sections listed below. Each section focuses on the analysis of different types of written and oral texts taken, adapted and simplified from original documents. Each unit includes sections dedicated to grammar practice and vocabulary building, as well as exercises aimed at developing the students’ four language skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) in a systematic and integrated way.
The communicative approach envisages constant and active participation of students in classroom activities.
Thematic sections:
1. Doctor-Patient communication
2. Informed consent
3. Verbal and non-verbal communication
4. Working with interpreters, mediators and foreign patients
5. Job interview as a communicative event
6. Trade fairs and conferences
7. PowerPoint presentation skills

All the necessary materials will be provided by the course professor.

Lecture 1
Part 1- Legal Methodology
1.1. Civil Law, Public Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law
1.2. Basic Legal Systems
1.3. Legal Rules and Their Hierarchy
1.4. Distribution of Powers and the Law
1.5. Management of Justice
1.6. Medical Law Within the Legal System
1.7. Organisation of the Health Service within National Law - Example: Italy
Part 2 - The Fundamental Right to Health
2.1. Key Facts of the Fundamental Right to Health - Art. 32 of the Italian Constitution
2.2. The WHO and the Fundamental Right to Health
2.3. Claiming the Fundamental Right to Health
Part 3 - Licensing and Registration of Physicians
3.1. The EU System
3.2. Medical Diplomas Not Falling Within the EU System
3.3. Health Workers
3.4. Possibilities for Non-EU and Non-EEA Sending Countries
Part 4 - Regulation of the Medical Profession in the EU
4.1. Regulation on the Basis of Public Law
4.2. Regulation by Self-Regulatory Authorities
4.3. Possible Standardisation of Medical Services

Lectures 2
Part 1 - From the Hippocratic Oath to Modern Codes of Medical Ethics
1.1. Hyppocratic Oath
1.2. What is Medical Ethics?
1.3. Principles Applicable to Decision making in Medical Ethics
Part 2 - Essential Elements of Codes
2.1. The European Council of Medical Orders and the European Charter of Medical Ethics
2.2. Biomedical Ethics and the Oviedo Convention
2.3. Implementation of a Code: Professional Secrecy
Part 3 - Tasks and Powers of Medical Associations
3.1. Italy: the Order of Physicians
3.2. Organisation of the Orders of Physicians
3.3. Disciplinary Measures of the Orders of Physicians

All the necessary materials will be provided by the course professor.

The syllabus is structured around the thematic sections listed below. Each theme will be developed and deepened by a group of students. Each group will conduct bibliographic research on biomedical databases, will elaborate the results of these researches through the creation of a PowerPoint, which will finally be presented to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Thematic sections:
1. Insights into histological techniques
2. Stem cells and tissue rigeneration
3. Pathologies of connective tissue fibers
4. Lysosomal pathologies

All the necessary materials will be found by the student in biomedical databases, as indicated by the teacher.