History of the Medical Armamentarium

Code:

OPT16

Acronym:

HIM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2014/2015 - SP

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Ciências Sociais e Saúde
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	6	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	2	-	3	22	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The unit aims to

- provide systematic knowledge on the History of Medicine, in order to arouse the student’s continued interest in the subject as well as to be an important tool for interdisciplinary research;

- raise the student’s awareness regarding medical museology;

- teach the history of medical artefacts ‒ a relevant chapter in the history of mankind;

- promote the FMUP’s documental and material heritage, in order to raise awareness and provide the scholarly means for its safeguard and its pedagogical and scientific use;

- develop the student’s motivation to apprehend and feel cultural values through self training;

- contribute to the humanisation of Medicine;

- encourage the development of critical thinking about contemporary Medicine and all that finds validation in it.

Learning outcomes and competences

On completion of this unit successful students will have acquired the knowledge on the evolution of the History of Medicine regarding those scientific, technological, technical and social aspects more closely related to the history of the medical armamentarium. They will also be able to identify and characterise them, contribute to the production of new pedagogical contents and participate in their preservation.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Syllabus:

A) Introduction to the documental, material and artistic heritage of the Medical School of the University of Porto ‒ a source of knowledge on national and international medical and historic issues, and the main object of study in the student’s training.

 

B) History of Surgical Instruments:

1st Part: General History of Anatomy

2^nd Part: General History of Surgery

3^rd Part: History of Surgery in Portugal

4^th Part: Analysing the Shape of Surgical Instruments

5th Part: Analysing the Materials of Surgical Instruments

6th Part: Manufacture of Surgical Instruments. The Portuguese Example

7^th Part: Manufacture of the Surgical Kit

8^th Part: Cataloguing Surgical Instruments.

 

C) History of the Diagnostic Instruments

1^st Part: General History of Medicine. The disease, the patient, the society and the physician. The importance of medical diagnosis.

2^nd Part: Introducing diagnostic instruments from different historic periods. Main figures in the development of general scientific, particularly medical, knowledge.

3^rd Part: Cataloguing Medical Instruments.

Mandatory literature

Arturo CASTIGLIONI; Historia de la Medicina, Salvat Editores, 1941
Harvey GRAHAM ; Historia de la Cirurgia, Iberia, 1942
Maximiano LEMOS; História da Medicina em Portugal: Doutrinas e Instituições., : Biblioteca da Ordem dos Médicos, Publicações Dom Quixote, Ordem dos Médicos, 1991
Amélia RICON-FERRAZ; ABC do Instrumento Cirúrgico, UP, Ordem dos Médicos, 2010. ISBN: 978-989-8265-40-1
Amélia RICON-FERRAZ; Catálogo do Museu “Maximiano Lemos”, FMUP, 2000
Amélia RICON-FERRAZ; The Medical and Surgical Instruments in Urogynaecology in the Past, UP, HSJ, IUGA, 2011
Amélia RICON-FERRAZ; Um olhar sobre o passado da Gastrenterologia, 2010. ISBN: 1647-2675
Amélia RICON-FERRAZ; A Real Escola e a Escola Médico-Cirúrgica do Porto: Contributo para a História da Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, UPorto 100, 2013. ISBN: 978-989-746-005-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

Varied teaching approaches will encourage the student´s learning and knowledge acquisition through reflexion, discussion and active participation.

1. Theoretical lessons (ten teaching hours). Introduction to the topics, based on the documental and material sources contained in the Medical School of the University of Porto.

2. Theoretical / practical lessons (eight teaching hours). Coached by the lecturer, students analyse the collections and documental sources contained in the FMUP’s “Maximiano Lemos” Museum of the History of Medicine. Discussion of specific topics related to the medical armamentarium.

3. Two-hour seminar. Development and discussion of previously defined subjects, complementing those approached in the theoretical lessons, with active participation by lecturers and students.

keywords

Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine
Humanities > History > History of science > History of technology

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Assessment (best score: 20) Essay-type written summative examination (100%). Successful completion of the course unit involves mandatory attendance to THE theoretical / practical lessons, and a score of at least 10 in the summative examination.

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment (best score: 20) Essay-type written summative examination (100%). Successful completion of the course unit involves mandatory attendance to THE theoretical / practical lessons, and a score of at least 10 in the summative examination.