FIA DISCIPLINEI

Total number of hours (per semester)

20

Name of the object

Year of study

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
I

Semester *

Type of evaluation (E / V / C)

Type of the object (Ob obligatorie, Op opional, F - facultativ)

Total number of hours
Professor

20

Ob

Number of credits

20

Number of hour per

semester

20

Total hours for individual

study

Lect. dr. Amironesei Mihai

Faculty

Medicine

Department

Preventive Medicine and

Interdisciplinary

Area

Medicine

Specializarea

Medicine

Total
20

C**

10

10

Previous knowledge required

NA
Educational objectives
Familiarizing the students with the specific terminology of sociological knowledge; the ability to
understand and use the results of sociological investigations regarding health care.
Course structure

Nr.
hours

The object and questions of medical sociology; general sociological issues

regarding the profession and institution of health care.

Sociological methodology.

The institution of health care. Comparative analysis of health care systems.

Sociological aspects of health and illness. Social determinations and consequences

of illness.

The life style of contemporary civilization and its consequences regarding health
(the lack of resources and behavioral excess).

Seminary structure

Medical sociology an introduction. Short history of Medical Sociology. The

definition and fields of research in medical sociology.

Methodology and types of research in medical sociology.

The relation between medic and patient. The food-related illness today.

Pathological behavior in western societies: alcoholism, drugs, and smoking as both

medical and social phenomena.

Way of life vs. style of life. Rural and urban communities in contemporary Europe.

Skills and abilities

- critical thinking.
- argumentative capacity.
- analitical thinking.
- understanding and using correctly the specific sociological terminology.
- understanding correctly the results of research in medical sociology.
- teaching the future medics how to use information from the sociological field of research for their own
activities of diagnostic, treatment, and recovery.

The evalution criteria

The percentage
(Total = 100%)

the final exam (questionaire, practical exam, oral exam)

90%

seminary activity

10%

periodic written tests

essays, projects etc.

other activities

Descriei modalitatea practic de evaluare final E/V (de exemplu: lucrare scris (descriptiv i
/ sau test gril i / sau probleme etc.), examinare oral, colocviu individual ori n grup, proiect,
etc.)
Teste scrise semestriale, rspunsuri la lucrrile practice
Examen final: examen practic i test gril unic (60 ntrebri cu rspunsuri multiple)

Estimated total time (i. e. hours per semester) required by individual study

1. Course notes research

8. Preparation oral exam

2. Course support, wrtten

material

9. Preparation written exam

10

3. Bibliography study

10

10. Tutoring.

4. Library research

11. Filed research.

5. Activity seminary.

12. Internet research.

6. Essays, projects etc.

13. Other activities.

7. Written papers

14. Other activities.

TOTAL number of hours individual study (per

semester) = 20 minimum
Bibliography:
1. Bond, John; Bond, Senga, Sociology and Health Care, Edinburgh, London, New York,
Churchill Livingstone, 1992.
2. Cockerham, Willianm C., Medical Sociology, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, 1992.
3. Elixhauser, A., Standards for the Socioeconomic Evaluation of Health Care Services,
Berlin, Springer, 1990.
4. Shermer, M., The Believing Brain, Times Books, New York, 2010.

2012