Sexual Medicine

Code:

PDSH04

Acronym:

MS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Human Sexuality

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDSH	1	Plano de Estudos em vigor	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

This unit intends to increase your knowledge of Sexual Medicine but also to enable you to change your clinical practice with the acquisition of new skills to apply to providing services for patients and to have more confidence in assessing and helping men and women with common sexual concerns. According to the intended learning outcome, the Sexual Physician should be able to manage the patient (male and female) with concerns regarding their sexual development (physical and psychological), diagnose, assess, and manage or refer patients with problems of physical and psychological sexual development, concerns regarding genital morphology, sexual motivation namely low or absent desire, including hypoactive sexual desire disorder, arousal disorders, erectile dysfunction, ejaculatory disorders and concerns regarding orgasm.

Learning outcomes and competences

The learning process requires a professional approach from Sexual Medicine students, who will be expected to have a deep understanding of the subject topics. It is expected that students will read beyond textbooks in order to make critical use, where appropriate, of original literature and peer-review articles in the related scientific and clinical literature such that they can aspire to an excellent standard in Sexual Medicine practice.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

NA

Program

• Male and female anatomy, physiology and hormones


• Male sexual disorders


• Female sexual disorders


• Sexuality in the elderly population


• Cancer and sexuality


• Prostate diseases and sexual function


• STI’s and sexual function

Mandatory literature

Lígia Fonseca, Catarina Soares, Júlio Machado Vaz; A Sexologia – Perspectiva Multidisciplinar: volume I, Quarteto Editora, 2003
F. MONTORSI, R. BASSON, G. ADAIKAN,E. BECHER, A. CLAYTON, F. GIULIANO,S. KHOURY, I. SHARLIP; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS IN MEN AND WOMEN. , International Society for Sexual Medicine , 2010
P.S. Kirana, F. Tripodi, Y. Reisman,H. Porst. ; The EFS and ESSM Syllabus of Clinical Sexology, Medix Publishers, 2013
Y Reisman, H Porst, L Loweinstein, F Tripodi, PS Kirana; The ESSM Manual of Sexual Medicine, Medix Publishers, 2015
Fortunato Barros, Rute Figueiredo. ; Manual de Medicina Sexual – Visão Multidisciplinar, HSJ Consultores, 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

• Expositive method, promoting the development of updated knowledge on the subject areas in study


• Reading and critical discussion of scientific articles 


• Research of bibliographic materials using scientific databases

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	20,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	27,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Students should prepare an individual essay with a systematic literature review about one of the topics covered in the course and actively participate in the classes

In order to be approved in this course, the students should:

1. Obtain a grade of 9,5 or superior

2. Complete all components of the evaluation

Calculation formula of final grade

FINAL GRADE = (written work*0,80 + participation in the classes*0,20)

Examinations or Special Assignments

NA

Internship work/project

NA

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

NA

Classification improvement

Students may improve the final grade during the appeal season (for that they should develop a new written work)

Observations

NA