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Psychiatry - Module of Psychiatry
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Psychiatry - Module of Psychiatry
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Academic year 2021/2022
- Course ID
- SCB0218B
- Teaching staff
- Prof. Giuseppe Maina (Lecturer)
Prof. Gianluca Rosso (Lecturer)
Dott. Francesco Oliva (Lecturer) - Modular course
- Psychiatry (SCB0218)
- Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 4
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/25 - psichiatria
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
- To provide students with practically useful advice on epidemiology, specific symptoms, course, clinical complications and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
- To deepen the clinical presentation of mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, neurocognitive disorders and substance-related and addictive disorders;
- To provide knowledge on the general principles of prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and benzodiazepines and to specify their clinical indications;
- To provide knowledge on drugs acting on the central nervous system
- To give an overview of emergency psychiatry and compulsory admission procedures;
- To show the main characteristics of psychotherapeutic techniques and their applications in clinical practice.
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Results of learning outcomes
- Recognizing signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders;
- Knowledge of the main treatments in psychiatry: medications and psychosocial interventions;
- Knowledge of history, chemical structure, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetic, therapeutic effects and unwanted side effects of drugs used for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases;
- Managing psychiatric disorders and their treatments in a general practice setting.
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Course delivery
From September 2021 onwards, the teaching is delivered in attendance with registration.
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Learning assessment methods
From September 2021 onwards, the psychiatry exam will be a written test (multiple choice questions) in attendance with an optional oral examination
Only for students who cannot be present at the course site, for proven reasons of:
- fragility
- temporary absence from the regional or national territory for serious documentable needs
an oral examination will be held through Cisco Webex Meetings.
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Program
- Mood disorders;
- Schizophrenia and related disorders;
- Anxiety disorders and related disorders;
- Eating disorders;
- Personality disorders;
- Substance-related and addictive disorders;
- Neurocognitive disorders;
- Treatments: Psychopharmacological treatments and psychotherapy;
- Drugs used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, eating disorders, Parkinson disease and epilepsy. Drug abuse;
- Compulsory admission procedures, interface of law and psychiatry, principles of ethics.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition. Edited by Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., 2019. ISBN 978-1-61537-256-0
- Goodman & Gilman, The Goodman and Gilman's Manual of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGraw-Hill 2018
- Slides and lecture notes.
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