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Other Courses of the Study Programme

Course year: 1

BIOMOLECULAR AND PROPEDEUTIC SCIENCES
Attendance grouping
5 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
CLINICA PROPEDEUTIC AND PHARMACOLOGY
Attendance grouping
8 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
HUMAN MORFOLOGY AND HUMAN FISIOLOGY
Attendance grouping
6 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
MIDWIFERY CARE IN LOW RISK LABOUR, POST-PERTUM AND HEALTHY NEWBORN
Attendance grouping
7 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
MIDWIFERY CARE IN LOW RISK PREGNANCY AND MATERNAL.FETAL ASSESSMENT
Attendance grouping
5 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES (1ST YEAR)
Attendance grouping
19 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
PROPEDEUTIC MIDWIFERY CARE
Attendance grouping
6 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH I YEAR - 2 credits - Language/Final Examination
STUDENT'S OWN CHOICE FIRST YEAR - 2 credits - Student's own choice

Course year: 2

AT-RISK NEWBORN AND INFANT CARE
Attendance grouping
4 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
DISTOCIC LABOUR, EMERGENCY IN OBSTETRICS CARE
Attendance grouping
10 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
LEGAL MEDICINE, BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Attendance grouping
4 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE AND MIDWIFERY CARE
Attendance grouping
8 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
MEDICAL CLINICS SCIENCES
Attendance grouping
5 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
MIDWIFERY SCIENCES APPLIED FAMILY HEALTH PROMOTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Attendance grouping
7 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES (2ND YEAR)
Attendance grouping
19 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH II YEAR - 1 credits - Language/Final Examination
STUDENT'S OWN CHOICE SECOND YEAR - 2 credits - Student's own choice

Course year: 3

EVIDENCE BASED MIDWIFERY PRACTICE
Attendance grouping
8 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
FINAL TEST - 6 credits - Language/Final Examination
GINECOLOGY ONCOLOGY AND SENOLOGY
Attendance grouping
5 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES (3RD YEAR)
Attendance grouping
25 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 3RD YEAR - 4 credits
PHISIOPATOLOGY AND GYNECOLOGY MIDWIFERY CARE
Attendance grouping
6 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
SCIENCES OF MANAGEMENT IN MIDWIFERY PRACTICE
Attendance grouping
4 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
STUDENT'S OWN CHOICE THIRD YEAR - 2 credits - Student's own choice

SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH II YEAR

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Academic Year of provision:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Language/Final Examination

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in MIDWIFERY

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Language:

Italian

Grouping type:

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ARISI Elisabetta Professor

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Hours of individual study:

Students should possess a good competence in English, in all four skills. Their CEFR level, at the 2nd year of their University Course, should be B1- B2 and it should include some competence in their specific technical/scientific vocabulary.

Educational Goals

Students are expected to be able to carry out, in English, a number of activities which are inherent to their future positions:
- interaction with International colleagues, students, patients and athletes;
- use of technological tools (computers, softwares, App, cameras, etc) which are widely spread in health/education services;
- teaching, also at higher level, education activities in general or meetings all over the world;
- updating by means of scientific/technical international literature.

Content

Personal Information.
Health/medical history.

Midwifery: job description.

Professional settings, challenges, skills and tasks.

Extended Syllabus

0001 Personal Information
Health/medical history: General public and Pregnant women.

0002 The Scientific Terminology
Professional English in Use - Medicine - Eric H. Glendinning Ron Howard, Cambridge University Press.

0003 Who is a Midwife? Job Description Antenatal Support: meet the team
World Health Organization: Midwifery infographic.

0004 Midwifery Topics
Contraception; Depression during Pregnancy; Medications and Drugs during Pregnancy; Physiologic Birth; Pain relief in Labour; Homebirth: pros and cons; Breastfeeding: WHO guidelines; A Guide for First-time parents; 10 mistakes new parents make.

Recommended Bibliography

-- Scientific/Technical content:
Students are invited to read, translate and analyse, both in class and on their own, documents and files that can be easily found and downloaded from selected websites. Links to the suggested files will be provided by a shared and constantly updated "Programme" - a PDF document. Each document will be uploaded and shared via ESSE3/UGov system or a specific Google Drive folder.
In addition:
"Professional English in Use - Medicine" by Eric H. Glendinning and Ron Howard, Cambridge University Press
-- On-line Dictionaries:
Merriam-Webster, Collins, Oxford Dictionaries

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Classwork will be based on:
- short dialogues where students are invited to speak about their personal life and their future profession.
- reading out loud and translation (if needed) of selected files, in order to widen the students' vocabulary and competence in the chosen subjects. The same files propel discussion and dialogues among the students.

E-Learning: students are invited to find, download and study some texts on-line or to view videos and web-sites suggested by the teacher.
A "Programme" - a PDF document, supplied to each student - links to the suggested web files. The documents are mostly shared by the teacher via Esse3/UGov or a specific Google Drive folder.

Assessment Methods

Written and/or oral test, with 5/6 open questions about the subjects discussed during classwork.

Assessment:

Final judgement

Programme of Educational Activities

Start date of teaching period:

Monday, February 26, 2018

End date of teaching period:

Friday, June 15, 2018