Medical Psychology - DA0108362

• Title: Medical Psychology
• Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities (13-711)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/30, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 1 [weeks]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Michael Šebek, CSc.
• Classification: Medicine > Auxiliary Subjects
• Pre-requisite : DA0104104
• Is pre-requisite for: DA0110317

Annotation

Discussions in small group. Basic ethical concepts. Ethical principles, the patient as a an object and partner, problems of the origin of life and the end of life, a physician as a citizen. Psychology of the patient, psychology of the disease, the doctor-patient relatinship, communication, psychotherapy

Last update: Zielina Martin, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Aim of the course

Students are introduced to psychological thinking in medicine, especially in medical practice.

Last update: Zielina Martin, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Course completion requirements

Attendace, active participation in seminars.

Last update: Zielina Martin, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Literature

Various internet resources, texts prepared by teachers.

Last update: Zielina Martin, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Requirements to the exam

Examination: Contents of lectures and seminar topics.

Last update: Zielina Martin, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Syllabus

Monday:

Psychology - general, applied, clinical, medical; Conscious, preconscious and unconscious life. Personality.

Tuesday:

Psychic response to iIlness. Doctor -patient relationship (and can a doctor be substituted by an artificial intelligence?).

Wendesday:

Doctor - patient communication. Psychotherapeutic tools; Psychosomatics in practice.

Seminar part (prepared by students):

Thursday:

Memory (theory), memory problems (disorders) in patients (2 students).

Difficult decisions in medical practice: limited resources, resuscitations, to operate or not operate. Triage (2 students).

Stress factors in medical profession (doctors, nurses…) (2 students).

Privacy and confidentiality (2 students).

Friday:

Stress and immune system (2 students).

Meeting with death in medical practice (2 students).

Informed consent (clinical, and in research) (2 students).

Good Medical Practice in Hospital and Outpatient practice (2 students).

Last update: Zielina Martin, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (27.11.2023)