Learning objectives
1. Knowledge and understanding. Functioning of cognitive and motivational processes as base of patients behavior. Fetal and neonatal
development, neurological plasticity. Verbal and non-verbal communication, and processes of social influence.
2. Students will be able to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in
dealing with medical-surgery issues in interdisciplinary contexts and will
be able to interact with patients, their families, and health care
personnel. They must be able to tolerate physically workloads to function effectively under stress avoiding errors.
3. Independence of judgment. Students will develop critical thinking skills
and independent judgment and they will be able to evaluate patients compliance addressing their beliefs and motivations on appropriate clinical choice.
4.Communication skills. Students will be able to communicate effectively
and efficiently with patients, their families, and members of the health
care team. They will be able to obtain a medical history in a culturally
competent manner, interpret non-verbal aspects of communication,
establish therapeutic relationships with patients and to recognize and
regulate cognitive and emotional processes associated with stress and
pain.
5. Learning ability. Students will be able to contribute to collaborative
learning environments, accepting constructive feedback from others and
taking personal responsibility for making appropriate positive changes.
Students will be able to upgrade from reliable sources and to continue
their professional development on their own.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
From scientific psychology to neuroscience; Main methods and research
paradigms; Fetal development, learning and neuronal plasticity,
programming and adaptive response. Teratogenic factors in fetal development.
Cortical representation of pain and modulation; Learning: paradigms and conditioned responses.
Memory: memory systems, processes of information retrieval; Emotions
and Communication; Making decisions: The principles that guide human
decisions. Stress, burnout and human error. Models and applications in
health care.
Full programme
Neurosciences. Methods of investigation. The paradigms of respondent and operant conditioning and of observational learning and through insight.
Prenatal origins of neurological development. Prenatal experience and neural placisticy. Fetal learning and memory. Stimulation studies and
their effect on the neonatal development.
The representation of the body and the knowledge of pain.
Cortical representation of pain.
Anticipation and empathy in the perception of pain.
Pain modulation.
Assessment tools for pain masuring.
Non-verbal communication: facial expressions, eye contact, posture.
Understanding and communication of emotions.
The emotions in the context of medical and health.
Psychological impact of pathologies on health professions.
Bibliography
Slides from the lectures and the two following scientific papers:
- Pino, O. (2016). Fetal memory: The effects of prenatal auditory
experience on human development. BAOJ Medical and Nursing, 2 (3);
015.http://bioaccent.org/medical-nursing/medical-nursing20.pdf
- Arya, R. et al., (2012). Maternal music exposure during pregnancy influences neonatal behaviour: An open-label randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 2012, Article ID 901812.
doi:10.1155/2012/901812
Teaching methods
The course takes place mainly by means of lectures that will cover the
main contents with many references to theories and theoretical models
and applied aspects of the discipline. Video tutorial may accompany the
lessons. In order to actively involve students, lectures will be supported
from practice individual and/or group and collaboration in interdisciplinary research for active learning of procedures and methodologies.
Assessment methods and criteria
The oral examination will ascertain the attainment of all the objectives of
the course. Any questions regarding the contents tend to check whether
the student has attained a solid foundation of knowledge and a deep
understanding of what was discussed. The final evaluation will be derived from the accuracy levels achieved for each training goal corresponding to 6 classes of evaluation (A to F).
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