ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE PROFESSION
Academic year and teacher
If you can't find the course description that you're looking for in the above list,
please see the following instructions >>
- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- KATIA VARANI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
Training objectives
- PHARMACOLOGY
The main goal of the course consists in providing basic knowledges of General Pharmacology related to Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. Moreover, the course aims to provide the basic elements for understanding the mechanisms of drug action, the therapeutic index and the drug toxicity. The pharmacological effects of some of the most important drugs used in the life and in the pain therapy will be assessed.
The main knowledge acquired will be:
- general concepts of pharmacokinetics
- general concepts of pharmacodynamics
- mechanisms of drug action, correlation with different classes of the receptors and evaluation of the drug effects in some cardiovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies.
The main skills that are the ability to apply knowledge acquired will be:
- assessment of pharmacokinetic factors determining drug effects, drug mechanisms and toxicity to better clarify the pharmacological effect of the drugs
- knowledge of the cellular and molecular mechanisms at the basis of the drug effects.
FORENSIC MEDICINE
To acquire awareness of the specific role of the graduate in movement sciences, putting into evidence the non-sanitary part, through the elaboration of a specific deontological corpus.
To acquire methodological tools to define the operative sphere (sports, games, etc), to interact with other professions (in particular general practioner, sport medicine specialist, rehabilitation-correlated professions), to evaluate the competence of particular conditions of the patients (doping and disability).
To acquire fundamental concepts in civil and penal liability and risk management. Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, anatomy and biology are requested.
Course programme
- PHARMACOLOGY
The course forecast 48 hours of teaching exerted as frontal lectures where the following topics will be illustrated:
- General principles of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (2 hours)
- Drug research and development (2 hours)
- Pharmacokinetics: administration routes; absorption; distribution; metabolism; excretion; bioavailability (10 hours)
- Drug-receptor interaction and dose-response curves (6 hours)
- Agonists, antagonists and allosteric modulators (6 hours)
- Therapeutic index and drug toxicity (4 hours)
- Classification of the receptors (2 hours)
- Mechanism of the drug-receptor interaction (4 hours)
- Main drugs primarily used e.g. benzodiazepines, NSAIDs and opioids (8 hours)
- The drugs in the most common cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases (4 hours).
FORENSIC MEDICINE
Professional profile. Professional ethics and ethics. Law on doping in sport.
Main doping substances. Anabolic steroids. Biological damage
Private insurance
Reference tables for evaluation
Forensic pathology (firearms injury, stab wounds, traumatic injury, asphyxia)
Forensic Toxicology (general concepts on toxic and poisonous, heroin, cocaine, cannabinoid, MDMA, alcohol) Didactic methods
- Frontal lectures on the course’s topics through power point presentation.
Learning assessment procedures
- PHARMACOLOGY
The aim of the exam is to verify at which level the learning objectives previously described have been acquired. The aim of this examination is to evaluate how deeply the student has studied the subject and how he is able to understand the basic topics analyzed. The exam is based on 30 multiple choice questions with four answers each; the question is worth one point if correct, wrong answer or no answer 0 points. To pass this test it is required to get at least 18 points. The time allowed for this test is 1 hour.
FORENSIC MEDICINE
The examination consists of a multiple choice quiz list (with 4 answers each); each question is worth one point if correct; wrong answer or no answer 0 points. To pass the test you must acquire a minimum of 18 points. The estimated time for the test is 30 minutes.
The final grade is a weighted average of the marks obtained in each of the two tests. Reference texts
- Mottram D.R., Farmaci e sport, Casa Ed. Ambrosiana
Rossi F., Cuomo V., Riccardi G., Farmacologia. Principi di base e applicazioni terapeutiche, Ed. Minerva Medica
Power point presentation of the lessons
Norelli, Buccelli, Fineschi. Medicina legale e delle assicurazioni, Piccin Ed. 2013
