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BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Midwifery
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2019/2020
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Credits: 
4
Standard lectures hours: 
80
Requirements: 

Students are required to have a basic knowledge of mathematics (in particular logarithms and functions). Students who, despite having passed the admission test, reach a score lower than 3 in Chemistry questions, less than 9 in Biology questions, will be identified specific Additional Educational Obligations (OFA), to be satisfied within the first year of course. Students with OFA will have to carry out an e-learning recovery path, in order to complete their initial preparation, prepared by the teachers of the interested areas, who will be at the students' disposal for further information and clarifications. At the end of the course there will be an ongoing test (OFA Recovery Test). The dates and place of the test will be advertised on the Study Program web page. The OFAs are understood to be satisfied once they have passed, with a favourable outcome, the on-going tests and the final examination of the teaching in which the subject of OFA (BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES) is included.

Final Examination: 
Orale

See what is described in the "prerequisites" section for the OFA. Since the integrated course is annual but with courses over two semesters, the final exam will be the average of two separate tests. A partial test following the frequency of the modules of CHEMISTRY and BIOLOGY and one that follows the frequency of the courses of BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGY.
The first partial test includes:
1. CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMICAL PROPEDEUTICS: Written exam with two separate parts: a quiz of 15 questions with 4 answers (only one 1 right) and a second part with 2 open questions. The vote is considered sufficient when both parts are sufficiently answered.
2. BIOLOGY: quiz of 15 questions with 4 answers (only 1 exact).
For both tests, the teachers can request an oral exam of 5-10 ' to verify the student knowledge.

The second partial test includes:
1. BIOCHEMISTRY: multiple choice test with 30 questions of which each is worth 1 point. The answers will be 4 and only one will be correct. There will be no difference between not selecting an answer and indicating it incorrectly. Upon returning the correct test, students will be able to increase their grade with an oral question. For the praise the student must have obtained at least 29 points in the test and answer a question.
2. PHARMACOLOGY
The exam concerning the pharmacology module consists of 27 statements concerning the different topics covered, which the student must indicate if true or false. The test also includes the elaboration of a topic dealt with during the course. For the assessment, any correct statement of the "true or false" test will be worth a point and no points will be taken for incorrect answers. The open request can be worth a minimum of -3 points to a maximum of 3 points. To have a sufficient evaluation (18), the sum of the marks obtained in the "true or false" test and that obtained in the open question must be 18/30. At the request of the students, the papers will be available to students for one week from the exam date and then definitively closed.
The final grade derives from the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the partial tests.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The integrated course of biomedical sciences, including the teachings of chemistry and propaedeutics of biochemistry, general biology, biochemistry and general pharmacology, aims to train students in the knowledge and understanding of the molecules of life, their characteristics and transformations in physiological and pathological processes .
The student will be trained to learn the principles of biophysical and biochemical methods applicable to prenatal and post-natal diagnostics as well as the diagnostic-clinical aspects related to medical genetics; will have to recognize the possible human actions in the regulation and control of biological processes for therapeutic purposes and their possible contraindications.
The course also has the task of providing a unique vocabulary and a scientific chemistry / biological base vocabulary to be able to deal with subsequent teachings.

The course of Biomedical Sciences develops in such a way as to cover the basic chemical / biological disciplines necessary to acquire the fundamental notions of knowledge and understanding of the molecules of life, of their characteristics and transformations in physiological and pathological processes. In particular, the course of CHEMISTRY contains the teaching of molecules in their complexity, from the basic chemical characteristics, to their three-dimensional structure, hydrophobicity / hydrophilicity and reactivity which characterize them and determine their use in the human metabolism that will be detailed in-depth during the BIOCHEMISTRY module. The General Biology will define the basic molecules of cellular life (RNA / DNA) and in their transformation processes both in physiological and pathological conditions. The teaching of FARMACOLOGY recomposes the framework starting from the knowledge described to identify the exploitation of the chemical / biological characteristics of the molecules to regulate or control the biochemical processes through different strategies and will evaluate any adverse effects.
The programs of the individual courses can be visited at the "MODULES" section.

For the reference texts, see the analogous point in the individual MODULES

For teaching methods, see the individual teachings under "MODULES"

For reception with the President of the integrated course, there is no specific calendar, but students are invited to make an appointment by e-mail with the teacher.
Students who have had the validation of some modules of the integrated course are asked to inform the examination committee when they register for the exams.

Modules