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ETICA, LINGUAGGIO E PROPEDEUTICA RIABILITATIVA

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Physiotherapy
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2019/2020
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Credits: 
3
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
36
Requirements: 

A good general knowledge acquired by critically reflecting upon media contents and fictional texts (high school level).

Final Examination: 
Orale

The “idoneità” (judgement of “qualified”) is certified if the student passes all the three disciplines-tests of the integrated course.
In details:
ELN: a written multiple choice test is submitted. The test shows the reached level of theoretical knowledge, of ethics-applying skills and of other competences in medical humanities.
MAM: a written examination includes both open and closed questions; the answers will be eventually discussed with the teacher.
MEV: Multiple-choice written test.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

General objectives of the whole integrated course: teaching the students to analyze the ethical-linguistic-symbolic, anatomical, psychomotor aspects of the patients, in their different ages.

Detailed objectives:
For ETHICS, LANGUAGE, NARRATIVE (ELN):
Learning a coherent methodology for an applied ethical reasoning in biomedical, social and educational contexts of physiotherapy and (in a wider way) in situations of health care research, practice and work; fostering the personal skills in perceiving a moral dilemma, in justifying an individual evaluation and in dealing with a disagreement inside the staff; implementing the competences in narrative ethics.

For PROCEDURE IN MOTOR ACTIVITY (MAM):
The student will have
- to learn joint anatomic characteristics of the human body and how these characteristics condition static posture and body dynamics.
- to detect the complexity of the biomechanics of the body within the space.
- to observe and to analyze the main static and dynamic alterations and pathologies that affect human movement.

For DIDACTIC METHODOLOGY OF MOTOR ACTIVITY IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL AGE (MEV):
Giving the students the base-knowledge about the child’s psychomotor development during infancy, paying specific attention to the first year of life.

SUMMARY.
For ELN:
Cases of conflict between moral principles and new Italian and European laws about the aims, role and limits of the professions/professionals involved in the biomedical field (doctors, technicians, researchers, educators, social workers).
Educational virtues and health care skills in physiotherapy. Definition of biomedical ethics; bioethics at the beginning and end of life; psychotherapy and ethics; ethical issues in the research, in the clinical practice (truth telling, confidentiality, consent and so on), in the public health care (justice, vaccination, organ transplantation, animal rights, and so on) [for details, see the index of the suggested handbooks].

For MAM:
Anatomy, biomechanics, main movement in orthogonal space and main alteration of:
- Head
- Spine
- Upper limb
- Lower limb
- Shoulder girdle
- Pelvic girdle

For MEV:
- The Central nervous system (CNS) growth during infancy;
- “Harmonic” and “Disharmonic” development;
- The role of neonatal reflexes in the motor arrangement;
- Environmental influences in the psycho-motor development;
- Neonatal behavior states by Precth.

By following (in a first time) the introductory theoretical exposition by the teachers, with the aid of slides, movies, short animation and other images, (in a second time) concrete clinical cases will be analyzed and debated by the whole group of students.

Modules