Introduction to Medicine

Code:

113

Acronym:

113

Instance: 2005/2006 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	114	Plano oficial a partir de 2005	1	2	2	-

Objectives

Students should learn about the evolution of Medicine through times, as well as to develop cultural basis to understand the progression of medical and clinical knowledge. The goal of this subject is to get acquainted with the origins of medical knowledge, clinical skills, diagnostic tools and professional behaviour.

Program

1. Pre-historical medicine (paleopathology). Medicine in Ancient Egypt. Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.
2. Origins of scientific medicine - Ancient Greece medicine. Hippocratic medicine. Pos-Hippocratic medicine. Medicine of Ancient Rome. Galen's medicine.
3. Mediterranean Middle Ages. Arabic medicine. Western medical universities. Medieval Portuguese medicine.
4. The Renaissance - the anatomists.
5. Medicine of the XVII and XVIII centuries.
6. Medicine of the XIX century. Laboratorial medicine. X Rays. Penicillin.

Main Bibliography

Jean-Charles Sournia. História da Medicina. Instituto Piaget.
A. Tavares de Sousa. Curso de História da Medicina. Das origens aos fins do século XVI. 2ª Edição. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Complementary Bibliography

Maximiliano Lemos. História da Medicina em Portugal. Publicações Dom Quixote.

A medicina e a sua história. EPUC - Editora de Publicações Científicas, Lda. 1989

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

See academic regulation.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In order to be approved, the students need the theoretical component. Those students whose statute allows them a special evaluation regime may be evaluated apart from the ordinary calendar. Nevertheless and in order to be acquainted with the rules legally stipulated, the students must seek information in the following regulations:
- Law n.º 358/70 from 29th of July
- Law n.º 152/91 from 23rd of April
- Decree n.º 947/87 from 10th December
- Law n.º 90/2001 from 20th August
- Law n.º 125/95 from 31st May

Classification improvement

According to the rules related to the faculty’s evaluation processes.

Observations

Semestral subject (1st semester), teached in the 1st academic year of Dentistry course, corresponding to 2 ECTS of curriculum scheme.