Aim of the Teaching is:
• to provide students with knowledge on the basic concepts for acquiring information on Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy equipment and their indications, as well as providing the basic notions of Radiation Protection.
• to provide students with knowledge on the aims of the health system and organizational models at international, national and local level.
• to provide students with knowledge on the theoretical bases of the Demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines, Medical Anthropology as specific discipline, and the understanding of importance of these disciplines in the context of clinical practice.
• Provide students with key concepts developed within the Demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines and Medical Anthropology: culture as process and cultural encounter in health care practice; illness and disease, health and wellbeing, health systems and body in the socio-cultural context and from the Medical Anthropology perspective.
• to provide students with knowledge on fully understand the fundamentals of modern pedagogy, starting from its birth and going throughout all its changes.
• to achieve a solid preparation in theoretical, design and operational fields of psychology, including innovative research techniques.
• Achieve ability to use cognitive and intervention tools aimed at prevention, diagnosis and rehabilitation and psychological support activities.
• Acquire advanced level skills to establish relevant characteristics of people, families and groups. Acquire the ability to plan relational interventions and to manage congruent interactions with the needs of people, families and groups.
• Acquire the ability to assess the quality, effectiveness and appropriateness of interventions.
• Being able to take responsibility for interventions, to exercise full professional autonomy and to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary groups. To acquire knowledge on the main IT tools and on the electronic communication in the specific areas of competence.
• to provide students with knowledge on basic concepts of general sociology must have been learnt.
• In particular students have to be able to answer to all the questions concerning the beginning of sociology in particular starting from Auguste Comte to the modern sociologists e.g. Bourdieu What a group is. Primary and secondary groups. What are social classes. The state. The institutions. The globalization. Values. Madeleine Leininger and the transcultural nursing.
• to provide students with knowledge on the evolution of medical thought from prehistory to the present day with a particular attention to how medicine in different ages has been influenced by social, economic, religious and political factors, since each time these factors have led to an improvement or a worsening of the medical art.