Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Carlo Cipolli, Marco Poli
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1 Language Italian
Pages 18 P. 103-120 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rip1-2021oa11604
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Marcello Cesa-Bianchi (1926-2018) was a full professor of General Psychology at the School of Medicine of State University of Milan. The aim of a wide part of his institutional activity was to enhance the role of psychological disciplines in MD degree course. He pursued this goal since the early 1970s, having realizedthe increasing need of refined communication and interpersonal skills for medical students as a consequence of three interrelated phenomena: a) a new patient-centered approach in medicine (the so-called Engel’s biopsychosocial model); b) the increased complexity of clinical activities of physicians and surgeons within the general hospitals; c) the harmonization of curricular racks for medical doctors as a requisite for their free circulation across the European countries. The process of harmonization of the national curricular tracks for medical students, which started in Italy in the early 1980s, provided an important opportunity for innovating both contents and teaching methods of psychological disciplines, in keeping with the results of teaching experiences carried out in the Schools of Medicine of the State Universities of Milan, Bologna and Naples. Cesa-Bianchi’s proposals were presented timely to the government committees for the revision of the curricular track for the MD degree course (so-called Nuova Tabella XVIII) in 1986 and 1996. To stimulate new teaching methods, based on tutorial and interactive techniques, for psychological disciplines in MD and healthcare degree courses Cesa-Bianchi promoted numerous workshops and meetings since 1986. Moreover, to establish official relations with the Ministry of University in 1993 he formally formed the Council of professors and researchers of psychological disciplines in the Italian Schools of Medicine. The most important proposals put forward by the Council were accepted by the Ministry of University, so that in 2001 the general psychology and clinical psychology were included definitively in the core curricula of MD and healthcare degree courses, at basic and advanced level of the curricular tracks, respectively. Another important result was the inclusion of a specific training in the curricular track of MD students for the acquisition of communication and interpersonal skills.
Keywords: MD degree course; curricular track; patient-centered approach in medicine; new teaching methods for psychological disciplines; interpersonal and communication skills; psychological disciplines
Carlo Cipolli, Marco Poli, L’insegnamento delle discipline psicologiche nei corsi di laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia: il contributo di Marcello Cesa-Bianchi in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA" 1/2021, pp 103-120, DOI: 10.3280/rip1-2021oa11604