Medical Psychology and Communication with the Patient - FG10034

• Title: Medical Psychology and Communication with the Patient
• Guaranteed by: Department of Psychiatry (15-520)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:10/15, C+Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
• Guarantor: MUDr. Petr Hrubeš
• Incompatibility : FV10030
• Interchangeability : FA0105065, FV10030
• Is incompatible with: FV10030, FVP030, FV10085
• Is pre-requisite for: FV081
• Is interchangeable with: FV10085, FVP030, FV10030
• In complex pre-requisite: FG10036, FG10038, FG10039, FG10040, FG10041, FG10042, FG10043, FG10044, FG10045, FG10047, FG10048, FG10049, FG10050, FG10051, FG10052, FG10054, FG10055, FG10056, FG10057, FG10058, FG10059, FG10060, FG10061, FG10062, FG10063, FG10064, FG10065, FG10066, FG10067, FG10068, FG10075, FG10076, FG10076, FG10077, FG10077, FG10078, FG10078, FG10079, FG10079, FG10080, FG10080, FG10081, FG10083, FG10084, FG10090, FG10091, FG10092, FG10093, FG10094, FG10095, FG10097, FG10097, FG10098, FG50025, FG50049

Annotation

Last update: Kateřina Homolková (06.08.2020)

Physician-patient relationship, communication skills, communication styles, difficult patient, uncooperative patient, death and dying, euthanasia. Attitudes to illness: response to disease, response to stress Psychosomatic medicine: models and theories, somatization, dissociation. Evolutionary aspects in medicine. Pain and psychogenic aspects of pain. Deprivation, frustration, hospitalism. Psychological environment in treatment. Cognitive-behavioral model of psychological intervention. Placebo, compliance with drug treatment.

Requirements to the exam

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Credit:

Attendance and activity at seminars is required for credit. Students compensate all justified absences, except for one, per term. Compensation means that they attend classes with the other group or by agreement with the tutor. Students also write an essay of at least 2-4 pages for credit, discussion at the seminar and the exam. The essays will be submitted in both electronic and paper versions, at the practical class before the last (within a week since an assignment).

Examination:

Final Exam: The terms of oral examination will be available for electronic application. Students at the exam pick out and discuss with the examiner two questions, and eventually also the credit essay from practical classes. List of questions for the examination is available at the Dept. of Psychiatry (Secretariat) and at the website http://www.lfhk.cuni.cz/psych/

Syllabus

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Lectures

1. Subject and History of Medical Psychology. Psychosomatic approach in medicine.
2. Response to Disease and Defense Mechanisms. Placebo and psychology of pain.
3. Doctor-Patient Communication. Psychology and the doctor patient relationship in out- and in- patients.
4. Basic Psychotherapeutic Skills and Schools.Crisis Intervention.
5. Death and Dying in Medicine. Suicidality. Ethical Aspects of Medicine.

Practical courses

1. Communication with patients - disabled patients.
2. Essays: purpose and topics. Interviewing patients: verbal and nonverbal communication. 
3. Therapeutic relationship. Difficult patient: acting-out and other defenses.
4. Crisis intervention.Psychological management of anxiety, stress and pain. Submission of essays.
5. Seminar: discussion and presentation of essays for credit. Feed-back survey.

Notes:

The tutor responsible for practical classes: 2nd year 1. group Petr Hrubeš, M.D., 2. group Petr Mílek, M.D.

    

lecturers:

 

• MUDr. Petr mílek
• PhDr. Kristýna Hosáková
• Prof. MUDr.Jan Libiger, CSc.

teachers:

• PhDr. Kristýna Hosáková
• Mgr. Martin Halíř
• MUDr. Petr Hrubeš
• MUDr. Jan Hubeňák
• MUDr. Vladimír Klanica
• MUDr. Richard Köhler
• MUDr. Jan Libiger
• MUDr. Petr Mílek
• MUDr. Evgenii Sadykov
• MUDr. Ivan Tůma

                                                         

Literature

Last update: Kateřina Homolková (06.08.2020)

Compulsory literature

1. A. Stoudemire Human Behavior. Introduction for Medical Students. 3rd ed., Lippincot-Raven. Philadelphia, 1998 and later editions. ISBN 0-397-58461-X I. 1-4 II. 14 III. 9 IV. 14

Recommend literature

1. B. J. Sadock and V.A. Sadock Synopsis of Psychiatry (Chapters 1,4,5,6,7,28,31,34,56,58). 9th ed., Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 2003 and later editions. ISBN 0-7817-3183-6
2. Benedetti Fabrizio The patient´s brain, the neuroscience behind the doctor-pacient relationship, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-957951-8