Medical Psychology and Ethics - EAP0103390
Title: Medical Psychology and Ethics
Guaranteed by: Psychiatrická klinika (14-390)
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 5
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/1, C [HT]
summer s.:0/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
deregister from the exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Jan Vevera, Ph.D.
doc. MUDr. Jiří Beran, CSc.
doc. MUDr. Luděk Fiala, MBA, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. MUDr. Luděk Fiala, MBA, Ph.D.
PhDr. Václav Jiřička, Ph.D.
Mgr. Veronika Kocmanová
Mgr. Eliška Konrádová
Mgr. Vojtěch Linka, Ph.D.
Vojtěch Pišl, M.Sc., Ph.D.
prof. MUDr. Jan Vevera, Ph.D.
Attributes: Povinné předměty pro Všeobecné lékařství
Incompatibility : EA0106113
Pre-requisite : EAP0102080
Interchangeability : EA0106113
Is pre-requisite for: EAP0104401, EAP0104120, EAP0104490, EAP0104310, EAP0104130
Is interchangeable with: EA0106113
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Annotation -
Psychological aspects of medicine. Communication skills. Crisis intervention. Conveying the diagnosis of a serious disease. Chronic and old patient in medical care. Family issues, family therapy. Nonverbal communication. Psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy. Ethical aspects of medicine. Troubles and conficts in doctor - patients communication.
Last update: Křikavová Lenka, Ing. (04.06.2020)
Course completion requirements -

winter semester credit: Attendance at practical seminars (one absence in a semester allowed) + essay 

summer semester credit: Attendance at practical seminars (one absence in a semester allowed)  + essay or participation in the student´s scientific activity/ in the survey

Student is allowed to sit the final oral exam not earlier than after achieving of both credits.

More details for the given academic year are always published in the study platform MOODLE.

Last update: Korelusová Alena (18.07.2025)
Literature -

Introduction to medical psychology. Doctor - patient communication, Beran. J.,Praha, Universita Karlova 2005.

Medical Humanities, An introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Thomas R. Cole, Nathan Carlin, Ronald A. Carson

Psychology for medicine, SAGE 2011, Susan Ayers, Richard de Visser

 

 

Last update: Korelusová Alena (05.01.2023)
Requirements to the exam

To be allowed to sit the final oral exam, student is to achieve both credits - for the winter and the summer semester.

Last update: Korelusová Alena (18.07.2025)
Syllabus -

1. A complex view of a patient:the biopsycholosocial model of disease. Psychotherapy and medicine:the integration of psychotherapy into medicine. The psychotherapeutic approach: a targeted use of communication skills and doctor – patient relationship in clinical practice.

2. The relationship between the doctor and the patient : contribution of M. Balint to understanding problems in the doctor – patient relationship.

3. Basic communication skills: listening,empathy,understanding,interpretation,interest and support advice and counselling.Integration of communication skills.

4. Nonverbal communication between doctor and patient : verbal,nonverbal and paraverbal components of communication. Description and classification of nonverbal behaviour. Application of the study of nonverbal bahaviour in doctor-patient interaction.

5. Anamnesis (a case history ) aimed at patient’s psychological problems:examples of forms of   specific anamnestic question (e.g.open introductory question, „ yes – no“ questions, questions about patient’s opinion etc.)

6. Doctor - patient interview: history taking versus doctor – patient interview ( dialogue), defining the framework of the interview, specially oriented interview  (e.g.  crisis intervertion, conveying the diagnosis of a serious disease,approach to depressive patiens etc.)

7. Supportive psychotherapy : introduction, definition, basic characteristics of supportivepsychotherapy.

8. Supportive psychotherapy as an independent  method of treatment: e.g. in problem situations  of life, in a crisis of life values etc.

9. Psychogical aspects of pharmacotherapy: psychological factors on the side of the doctor and on the side of the patient, psychotherapy and psycho – pharmacotherapy.Placebo effect.

10. Problem situations ( complications) in communication between  the doctor and the patient: factors on the side of the doctor, patient and his /her family.

11. Lifespan approach to human development: newborn,long term effects of early experience, maternal deprivation, hospitalisation of children . Adolescence,development tasks, development of identity,sex roles. Ageing,development tasks, adjustment to losses associated with old age , abnormal ageing.

12.Personality: definition,personality development, introversion /extraversion,personality disorders.Inteligence: definition, IQ , mental retardation.

13. Pain : psychogenic pain, gate – control theory, endorphins ,assessment methods, chronic pain managment.

14. Sleep  : stages of sleep, functions of sleep,dreaming, sleep disorders ,sleep hygiene. Mental hygiene and selfcare. Prevention of burnout syndrome.

15. Social psychology: relevance of social priciples to medicine,behaviour in groups , sick role. Mental health programmes.

16. Psychotherapy : definition ( e.g. dynamic, behavioural,cognitive).

17. Family issues : parenting, violence and sexual abuse, family therapy.

18. Sexual function and dysfunction : psychological influences, cultural influences, therapeutic interventions. Transgenders.

19. Addition : alcoholism and drug addiction, sociocultural and psychological factors, treatment and prevention programmes.

20. Normal versus abnormal behaviour : classification of abnormal behaviour ( anxiety,somatoform disorder,dissociative disorder,depression, obsessive – compulsive disoreder, psychosis,dementia ).

 

Last update: Korelusová Alena (22.07.2025)
Learning outcomes -

Subject Medical Psychology and Ethics is included into the programme of the third year of General Medicine Course. Beside the mandatory attendance in practical seminars, the condition for achieving the credit in the winter semester is the written work – a scientific essay in the field of medical psychology and/or ethics. A particular topic is the matter of students choice. In the summer semester, student  cooses between the options to submit the second written work – essay or to participate at the scientific activity/survay . Meeting these conditions is necessary to obtain credit for the relevant semester.

Lectures and practical seminars are elaborating topics according syllabus. Practical  teaching is based on specific problems from the clinical medicine, e.g.informing, psychological quidance, counselling, communication with handicapped etc. During the practical training we use role playing, video feedback and small goups dynamics. Students are sharing their  experiences from clinical training and from literature dealing with psychology and ethics topics.

The goal of this teaching programme is the support of humanisation of medicine, sensibilisation of students to psychological and ethical aspects of clinical medicine and training of communication in specific situations of medical practice.

Last update: Korelusová Alena (18.07.2025)