ID:
SME0398
Duration (hours):
75
CFU:
5
Located in:
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (06/10/2025 - 23/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
AIMS
The integrated course aims to transmit to future healthcare professionals the logic, the language, and the conceptual foundations of the scientific reasoning. Students are expected to become confident enough in life sciences to be able to reject with conviction ideological or magical thought in the context of one's professional activity. Specifically, the course aims to provide the student with the knowledge to understand biological phenomena at the molecular, cellular and tissue level. The course consists of the following modules: - Chemistry and Biochemistry - General biology – Medical physics _ Occupational medicine and radiation protection. EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. know the chemical bases of the structure of living matter and understand its interactions in the physiological environment
2. discuss the energy and kinetic requirements of biological reactions
3. know the function of the main classes of biomolecules; in particular, their metabolism in physiological and pathological conditions and the structure/function relationship of nucleic acids
4. distinguish between mitotic and meiotic phases and apply the genetic basis of heredity to family trees.
5. Discuss the regulation of cellular and systemic energy metabolism and the nutritional properties of the main food classes.
6. know and understand the physical phenomena that underlie the activities that they have to carry out in the nursing profession.
The integrated course aims to transmit to future healthcare professionals the logic, the language, and the conceptual foundations of the scientific reasoning. Students are expected to become confident enough in life sciences to be able to reject with conviction ideological or magical thought in the context of one's professional activity. Specifically, the course aims to provide the student with the knowledge to understand biological phenomena at the molecular, cellular and tissue level. The course consists of the following modules: - Chemistry and Biochemistry - General biology – Medical physics _ Occupational medicine and radiation protection. EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. know the chemical bases of the structure of living matter and understand its interactions in the physiological environment
2. discuss the energy and kinetic requirements of biological reactions
3. know the function of the main classes of biomolecules; in particular, their metabolism in physiological and pathological conditions and the structure/function relationship of nucleic acids
4. distinguish between mitotic and meiotic phases and apply the genetic basis of heredity to family trees.
5. Discuss the regulation of cellular and systemic energy metabolism and the nutritional properties of the main food classes.
6. know and understand the physical phenomena that underlie the activities that they have to carry out in the nursing profession.
Course Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this integrated course. The Chemistry and Biochemistry, General Biology and Medical Physics modules do not require specific preliminary knowledge, but some basic notions of mathematics, including equivalences, proportions, powers and logarithms.
. Students who, despite having passed the admission test to the degree course, have not reached the minimum scores established for the specific disciplines, will be assigned an additional educational obligation (OFA) to be completed within the first year of the course. This obligation, which includes an OFA Recovery Test, will be fulfilled in the ways and terms indicated by the individual teachers at the beginning of the course.
. Students who, despite having passed the admission test to the degree course, have not reached the minimum scores established for the specific disciplines, will be assigned an additional educational obligation (OFA) to be completed within the first year of the course. This obligation, which includes an OFA Recovery Test, will be fulfilled in the ways and terms indicated by the individual teachers at the beginning of the course.
Assessment Methods
The exam of the integrated course takes place through written tests concerning all the topics covered in the teaching modules. The integrated course exam is unique, as for all integrated courses, and includes all the disciplines that are part of it. Note that: - the final score is unique, and represents a weighted average of the assessments obtained in each module; - insufficiency in a module may compromise the outcome of the entire exam which must be repeated with a new registration. The Chemistry and Biochemistry part of the exam is in written form and consists of: open-ended questions of progressive difficulty, aimed at ascertaining the general knowledge of the contents and basic information of the topics according to a criterion of essentiality and to the ability to critically discuss them. For this reason, students are allowed to consult during the test texts and didactic material used for the preparation. The answers are expected to be synthetic, straightforward and precise, and at the same time exhaustive. For this reason, the time available for the test is 45 minutes. The evaluation of the paper will only report errors, deficiencies and incompleteness. The correct formulation of the answers will be presented collectively, immediately after each student's vision of his/her already evaluated paper. For the general BIOLOGY module, the test consists of a quiz of 31 questions with 4 answers, one of which is correct. The exam relating to the MEDICAL PHYSICS module consists of a written test consisting of a series of quiz questions and an open-ended question.
Course Language
Italian
Degrees
Degrees
NURSING
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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