Patient Interaction in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy

Expository method with an appeal to analysis and critical reflection on the contents agreed upon in interaction in the classroom, consolidating critical reflection on the actions resulting from the decision-making process.
-Continuous assessment: Pertinent interventions in the analysis introduced in class as a response to contextualized problems, arising from everyday life (10% of the total assessment).
-Summative evaluation: Long answer test/essay (Frequency) on the topics referred to in the syllabus (50%) + Written work (40%)

Knowledge:
• In-depth health communication including risk communication
• Deepen knowledge of Psycho-Oncology
• Distinguish, ethically, the personal characteristics of communication partners
•Priorize Deontology over daily praxis.
Skills:
• Communicate in a risk context
•Identify and manage emotions in oncology
•Controlling, in the specificity of their professional conduct, the emotional condition of those involved in the labor
process.
•Promote better personal professional conduct.
Competences:
• Apply health communication skills in different IMR contexts
•Being assertive with the team and users
• Properly deal with the cancer patient throughout the different phases
•Knowing how to manage emotions in an oncological context and prevent burnout
• Self-regulating behavioral reactions in work situations
• Communication of risk and Radiological Protection and Safety measures.
• Preserve Human Dignity

• Health communication competences in various clinical settings
• Communication of radiation risks and benefits
• The importance of psycho-oncology in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy
• Ethics and Deontology applied to daily clinical scenarios
• Ethical Rationale of the Radiation Protection System

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