BASIC MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY II

Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

M4020

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 6 years in MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Moduls:

ENGLISH II - 3 credits
ANTHROPOLOGY - 3 credits

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Anthropology: Indicated in the teaching regulations

English II: Entry language skills: CEFR B1+ or higher. In order to sit for the English II exam, students must have passed the English I exam.

Objectives

Anthropology: The general objective of the Course is to provide the student with the basic concepts of human variability with respect to the fundamental concept of "normality", both anatomical and functional. On the application level, the main areas of the study of human variability in the process of personal identification will be addressed, in that of studying the origins of man and classification of human races.

English II: LEARNING OUTCOMES
The learning objectives of the graduate programme in Medicine include the development of B2+/C1 language skills in English with a focus on domain-specific vocabulary (ESP). At the end of the course, students will be expected to understand the main concepts of a discourse of a certain length and follow quite complex arguments; to understand narrative texts; to communicate in a sufficiently spontaneous and natural way so as to interact with native speakers; to express their opinions; to write clearly and articulately on a wide range of topics, including the specialized domain of Medicine.

ABILITIES
At the end of the course students will be expected to possess CEFR B2/B2+ (“Vantage”) competences in English. In addition, they will have acquired basic specialized vocabulary in the professional and scholarly fields of Medicine.

CRITICAL SKILLS AND SELF-ASSESSMENT
Students are expected to acquire language skills so as to express themselves clearly and correctly in English in both general and specialized situations. Students are also expected to develop adequate metalinguistic skills.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Students will be expected to understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics; to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible and without strain; to produce a clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue. Students will also be expected to apply these language skills to specialized communication in the scholarly and professional fields of Medicine.

Contents

Anthropology (3 CFU) Prof. Luigi Capasso

Anthropology. Definition of a variable anthropological character (anatomical, physiological, cultural, social). Variations of continuous (metric) and discontinuous (non-metric or morphological) type. Anatomical variants (morphological and metric) and functional somatic, district, organ and apparatus, tissue, cytological, biochemical and molecular. Causes of anatomic and functional variability. Synchronic and diachronic variability of anthropological characters. Applied anthropology.

English II (3 CFU) Prof.ssa Adriana D'Angelo

The course aims to train the students’ language skills in English at the CEFR B2 level (“Vantage”) with a focus on reading and listening comprehension as well as on oral interaction. To this end, the lessons will include reading, listening, and speaking activities while developing and consolidating General English grammar and vocabulary competences. At the same time, the course will provide students with reading and listening skills, and basic specialized vocabulary (ESP - English for Special Purposes) in some of the main areas of medicine. Specific attention will be devoted to the analysis of the abstract as a domain-specific textual genre.

Extended Syllabus

Anthropology:
Part 1 - Generality
- Definition and limits of Anthropology
- Background
- Model theory (concept of normality, normal variability and pathological limit)
- Ethics of Anthropology (the problem of the so-called race, eugenics and anthropology, anthropology and medicine)
- The place of man in NatureOverview of taxonomy
Living primates

Part 2 - General Anthropology
- GeneralityVariable anthropological characters (definition of variable anthropological characters, types of characters: anatomical, physiological, cultural, social and psychic, types of characters according to relevance, chronology of onset, and stability and duration)
The anatomical variants
The functional variants
Molecular variants

- Variants (anatomical and functional) according to the behavior in the population
Continuous type variants (metric)
Generalities, expressions in the individual and behavior in the population
Main anthropometric characters (measurements, indexes)
Variations of a discontinuous type (non-metric or morphological)
Generalities, expressions in the individual and behavior in the population
The somatic morphological characters and their use (relationships between variants and their clinical expression, use of variants in the identification process), racial influences on the population distribution of morphological variants

- Anatomical variants (morphological and metric) and functional, depending on the level of expression
Organism variants (somatic)
Somatic variants
Qualitative anatomical (constitutional)
Quantitative anatomical (height, weight, body surface, body composition, body density)
Physiological (maximum energy expenditure, basal metabolism, body temperature, haematological parameters)
District variants
Qualitative and quantitative anatomies (somatomorphy and district somatometry)
Head and neck
Trunk
Arts
Physiological district and organ; concept of organ reserve (vital capacity, pulse rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, cardio-respiratory resistance, muscular strength, sensibility of the sense organs in general: reaction times and levels of attention)
Apparatus and organ variants (anatomical and functional)
Tegumentary apparatus and cutaneous appendages
Skeletal system
Joints
Muscular system
Circulatory system (including the spleen)
Digestive system
Respiratory system
Uro-genital apparatus
Endocrine system
Central and peripheral nervous system
Sensory organs
Tissue, cytological, biochemical and molecular variants
Surface erythrocyte polymorphisms
Hemoglobin polymorphisms
Surface leukocyte polymorphisms (histocompatibility system, or HLA system)
Serum-protein systems (including immunoglobulins)
Enzymatic polymorphisms (isozymes and alloenzymes)

- Causes of anatomic and functional variability
Genetic causes of individual and population variability
Environmental causes of individual and population variability

Part 3 - Applied anthropology
- General: synthetic applications (classifications and taxonomics) and disjunctive applications (applied to personal identification)

- Synchronous variability
Variability linked to the environment
Transient and stable human adaptations
Variability of current populations and races
Variability related to age
Auxology (with particular regard to the maturation of the musculoskeletal system and the mastic apparatus)
Growth curves
Growth factors
Secular trend
Aging (with particular regard to the musculoskeletal system and to the chewing apparatus)
Variability linked to sex
Secondary skeletal and visceral sexual characteristics
Skeletal, articular and muscular variations related to pregnancy and childbirth
Enthesopathies and sindesmopathies
Populations aspects of short-term synchronic and diachronic variability (Biodemography, with particular regard to population structure and anthropological effects of human migration)

- Diachronic variability (outline of human origins and of the main bio-cultural evolutionary aspects).

English II:
ESP - ENGLISH FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
Studying at university, Cancer and cancer treatment, Disaster response, Occupational Disease, Alternative medicine, Medicine and ethics, Patients' medical histories

LANGUAGE AND FUNCTIONS
Verb tenses, Relative clauses, Comparative and superlatives, Modal verbs, Passive forms, Reported speech, Linking words and conjunctions, Dependent prepositions and Verb patterns

Recommended Bibliography

Anthropology - L. Capasso (2015), Trattato di antropologia. Società Editrice Universo (Roma).

English II - 1. Barbara Bettinelli, Paola Catenaccio, Karine Beatty, English for Medicine - Volume 2, Milano, Hoepli, 2006, ISBN 9788820332686
2. Salvatore Perez, Martin Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice. Language through Forms, Functions and Practice, Torino, il Capitello, 2000, ISBN 9788842663942
3. Letture, PPT e altri materiali utilizzati durante il corso, e resi disponibili dal docente attraverso le piattaforme di Ateneo

Teaching Methods

Anthropology: Frontal lectures.

English II: Lectures integrated by communicative and task-based activities when needed. For this reason, the students’ active participation and interaction is crucial to attain the expected learning outcomes. Classes will be taught using traditional and multimedia (AV) materials as well as authentic (scientific) texts. Students are required to come to class with their coursebook and study material.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Anthropology: Oral exam.
The exam is considered passed if the student reaches the minimum grade of 18/30.

English II: Written exam.

Contacts/More Information

Prof. Capasso - Students reception: by appointment at l.capasso@unich.it.

Prof.ssa D'Angelo: Attendance is compulsory. In order to sit for the exam, students must have attended classes AND have passed the first-year English language exam.

Language certifications MAY NOT replace this course/exam.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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