Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - Clinical Skills

A.Y. 2024/2025
1
Max ECTS
25
Overall hours
SSD
MED/25
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The professionalizing activities have the learning objective of inserting the students in the different psychiatric services that constitute the Complex Operative Unit of Psychiatry (SPDC; DH; CPS; CRA; CD) and favoring the clinical application of the theoretical tools learnt during classes, deveoping specific types of doctor-patient relationship on the basis of the different diagnoses at various stages of the disease.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the activities the student must have achieved the following results:
- Know the different services that constitute a Department of Mental Health;
- Manage the doctor-patient relationship in different clinical and territorial contexts;
- Know and implement the rehabilitation and pharmacological approach with patients at different stages of the disease in different clinical and territorial contexts.
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

Linea Policlinico

Course syllabus
Professional activities pursue and are an integral part of the objectives and results of the learning expected from teaching, as they confer the skills and abilities useful for applying knowledge in clinical practice.

The prevalent psychopatological dimensions and major and minor psychiatric disorder will be described:
Psychopathology: perception, thinking, consciousness, memory, will, attention, affectivity, reality test and criticism.
Neuro-cognitive disorders and dementias
Delirium and confusional states
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders;
Bipolar and related disorders;
Depressive disorders and suicide;
Anxiety Disorders; Obsessive -compulsive and related disorders;
Somatic symptom and related disorder;
Dissociation disorder;
Trauma and stressor-related Disorders;
Eating disorders;
Substance -related and addiction disorders;
Personality disorders;
Sleep disorders;
Organization of Mental health departments;
Legal Aspects of forensic psychiatric , TSO.
Prerequisites for admission
Professional activities pursue and are an integral part of the objectives and results of the learning expected from teaching, as they confer the skills and abilities useful for applying knowledge in clinical practice.

There are no prerequisites.
Teaching methods
Attendance in inpatient departments/wards, clinics, day hospitals, and territorial centers or CPS and CRA (zone 1,10,13); discussion of patient clinical cases
Teaching Resources
Same reference material of the Main Teaching Course
Assessment methods and Criteria
The achievement of the expected learning outcomes by the student will be carried out through a single oral exam. During this test, an examination board will assess the student's knowledge of the topics included in the program. The communication of the results to the student will be done by the examination board at the end of the exam. After the acceptance of the final score by the student, the President of the examination board will proceed to record it. There are no intermediate tests, pre-exams can be organized.
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 1
Professional training: 25 hours
Professor: Brambilla Paolo
Shifts:
Gruppo 1
Professor: Brambilla Paolo
Gruppo 2
Professor: Brambilla Paolo
Gruppo 3
Professor: Brambilla Paolo
Gruppo 4
Professor: Brambilla Paolo
Gruppo 5
Professor: Brambilla Paolo

Linea San Donato

Course syllabus
Professional activities pursue and are an integral part of the objectives and results of the learning expected from teaching, as they confer the skills and abilities useful for applying knowledge in clinical practice.

The prevalent psychopatological dimensions and major and minor psychiatric disorder will be described:
Psychopathology: perception, thinking, consciousness, memory, will, attention, affectivity, reality test and criticism.
Neuro-cognitive disorders and dementias
Delirium and confusional states
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders;
Bipolar and related disorders;
Depressive disorders and suicide;
Anxiety Disorders; Obsessive -compulsive and related disorders;
Somatic symptom and related disorder;
Dissociation disorder;
Trauma and stressor-related Disorders;
Eating disorders;
Substance -related and addiction disorders;
Personality disorders;
Sleep disorders;
Organization of Mental health departments;
Legal Aspects of forensic psychiatric , TSO.
Prerequisites for admission
Professional activities pursue and are an integral part of the objectives and results of the learning expected from teaching, as they confer the skills and abilities useful for applying knowledge in clinical practice.

There are no prerequisites.
Teaching methods
Attendance in hospital wards, surgeries, day hospital, operating room, first aid activities, discussion of clinical cases.

1. Lectures divided into two parts: in the first part, frontal lecture with the presentation of the program topics; in the second part, analysis and discussion of a film related to the topic presented the previous week and assigned to the students;
2. Role playing, clinical cases discussion.
Teaching Resources
G. Invernizzi, C. Bressi (2017): Psichiatria e psicologia clinica. McGraw-Hill, Milano, Quinta edizione.
P. Brambilla (2019): Manuale di psichiatria clinica. Minerva Medica, Milano.
G. O. Gabbard (2015): Psichiatria Psicodinamica. Raffaello Cortina ed., Milano, Quinta edizione.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The achievement of the expected learning outcomes by the student will be carried out through a single oral exam. During this test, an examination board will assess the student's knowledge of the topics included in the program. The communication of the results to the student will be given by the examination board at the end of the exam. After the acceptance of the vote by the student, the President of the examination board will proceed to record it. There are no intermediate tests, pre-exams can be organized.
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 1
Professional training: 25 hours
Shifts:
Gruppo 1
Professor: Dell'Osso Bernardo Maria
Gruppo 2
Professor: Dell'Osso Bernardo Maria
Gruppo 3
Professor: Dell'Osso Bernardo Maria
Gruppo 4
Professor: Dell'Osso Bernardo Maria

Linea San Giuseppe

Course syllabus
Professional activities pursue and are an integral part of the objectives and results of the learning expected from teaching, as they confer the skills and abilities useful for applying knowledge in clinical practice.

The prevalent psychopatological dimensions and major and minor psychiatric disorder will be described:
Psychopathology: perception, thinking, consciousness, memory, will, attention, affectivity, reality test and criticism.
Neuro-cognitive disorders and dementias
Delirium and confusional states
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders;
Bipolar and related disorders;
Depressive disorders and suicide;
Anxiety Disorders; Obsessive -compulsive and related disorders;
Somatic symptom and related disorder;
Dissociation disorder;
Trauma and stressor-related Disorders;
Eating disorders;
Substance -related and addiction disorders;
Personality disorders;
Sleep disorders;
Organization of Mental health departments;
Legal Aspects of forensic psychiatric , TSO.
Prerequisites for admission
Professional activities pursue and are an integral part of the objectives and results of the learning expected from teaching, as they confer the skills and abilities useful for applying knowledge in clinical practice.

There are no prerequisites.
Teaching methods
Attendance in hospital wards, surgeries, day hospital, operating room, first aid activities, discussion of clinical cases.

1. Lectures divided into two parts: in the first part, frontal lecture with the presentation of the program topics; in the second part, analysis and discussion of a film related to the topic presented the previous week and assigned to the students;
2. Role playing, clinical cases discussion.
Teaching Resources
G. Invernizzi, C. Bressi (2017): Psichiatria e psicologia clinica. McGraw-Hill, Milano, Quinta edizione.
P. Brambilla (2019): Manuale di psichiatria clinica. Minerva Medica, Milano.
G. O. Gabbard (2015): Psichiatria Psicodinamica. Raffaello Cortina ed., Milano, Quinta edizione.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The achievement of the expected learning outcomes by the student will be carried out through a single oral exam. During this test, an examination board will assess the student's knowledge of the topics included in the program. The communication of the results to the student will be given by the examination board at the end of the exam. After the acceptance of the vote by the student, the President of the examination board will proceed to record it. There are no intermediate tests, pre-exams can be organized.
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 1
Professional training: 25 hours
Professor: Bressi Cinzia
Shifts:
Gruppo 1
Professor: Bressi Cinzia
Gruppo 2
Professor: Bressi Cinzia
Professor(s)
Reception:
based on appointment
Via Della Commenda, 10/12 - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico - Pad. Alfieri, first floor
Reception:
by appointment (phone, e-mail)