Scientific Methodology and Human Sciences, Health and Corporate Law

FIRST PART GENERAL REGULATION
- SECOND PART OF DEEPENING OF THE DIFFERENT DIFFUSED CONTRACT TYPES:
- SUBORDINATE WORK
- "INDIRECT RECRUITMENT" (temporary work / Cooperative)
- COOLLABORATIONS and INDEPENDENT WORK.

Medical statistics
1. Data collection:
- Inter and intra-individual variability
- How to describe synthetically a variable phenomenon
- Population and Sample: definition
- Sampling methods in medical fields
2. Instruments for data synthesis:
- Numerical values and modalities of a variable
- Characteristics of qualitative and quantitative variables
- Tables and figures
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- Building and reading frequency distributions and two-variable tables
- Calculation and use of percentage frequencies and cumulated frequencies
3. Instruments for data synthesis:
- Position, dispersion and association measures
- Measures of location: mode, median, arithmetic mean and geometric mean
- Characteristics of measures of location
- Measures of variability: range, interquartile range, standard deviation, coefficient of variation
- Characteristics of the measures of variability
- Calculation and use of percentiles
- Linear correlation coefficient
4. Frequency distribution
- How to evaluate the asymmetry
- The characteristics of the Gaussian distribution
- Meaning of confidence intervals
5. Accuracy and precision of an estimate
6. Measures of disease frequency:
- Prevalence
- Incidence (rate, cumulative incidence)
7. Measures of association between risk factor and disease
- The meaning of "risk" in the medical / health field
- Risk measures: Absolute Risk, Relative Risk, Odds Ratio
8. The clinical decision:
- probability as a measure of uncertainty
- Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of a diagnostic test
Research Methodology
1. Definition and aims of epidemiology:
2. Principles of causality: causal interpretation of the exposure-disease relationship
3. Design of epidemiological studies
- Descriptive studies
- Analytical studies: cohort and case-control studies
- Experimental studies
4. Systematic literature review and meta-analysis
5. Hints on confounding and effect modification
6. Hints on the reproducibility problem
7. Structure of a scientific article
Bibliographic research
1. Setting up a search
2. Types of resources
3. Research methods and tools
4. Evaluation of collected information
5. Methods of citing materials
6. Pubmed database
7. Embase database

Basics of the Italian legal system
The code of Ethics
Malpractice and accountability. Imprudence, wilful behaviour, negligence and their legal consequences.
Public officer, penalisation and prosecution.
The duties for the Podiatrist:
- professional secrecy
- informed consent for adults and minors
- duty to inform the authorities
Laws of protection of personal data.

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
OPERATOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION

- The sciences and medicine have a history: the origins and meaning of Medicine and the History of Medicine;
- The sources for the study and research in the historical-scientific and historical-medical fields
- Science and Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. The middle Ages;
- The body: Renaissance and animated anatomy. Iatrofisica and Iatrochimica.
- Microscopic anatomy.
- Enlightenment and public health: occupational diseases, hygiene and preventive medicine, vaccine prophylaxis, orthopedics, humanitarian treatment of mental patients
- The birth of the Clinic and its tools: semiotics, diagnostics and therapy; The problems of Surgery and their resolution: analgesia, anesthesia, asepsis and antisepsis.
- Cell theory and microbiology
- The 20th century: new concepts, tools and therapies; Evolution and transformation of hospital locations.
- Ideas and sources for a history of the profession.

Accreditation
LEA
Healthcare facilities and ASLs
Providers
The staff of the Hospitals
The employment relationship in Public Administrations