The Ph.D. in “Foundations of the Life Sciences, Bioethics and Cognitive Sciences” aims to create internationally recognized scholars in the fields of psychology and ethics, with a specific attention to the relationships between biomedicine and society.
Particularly, the program will deal broadly with the interdisciplinary conceptualization of a personalized (tailored) approach to investigating patients and diseases in different areas.
For the call 2016, the Ph.D. program will offer up to 3 fellowships open to psychologists or philosophers with an outstanding profile where the issue of personalization will be investigated in one of the following areas:
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
As a normative endeavor, medical decision making science proposes standards for ideal decision making. As a descriptive endeavor, it seeks to explain how physicians and patients routinely make decisions, and has identified both barriers to, and facilitators of, effective decision making. As a prescriptive endeavor, it seeks to develop tools that can guide physicians, their patients, and health care policymakers to make good decisions in practice. PhD students involved in this research area will develop theoretical and practical expertise to improve decision making in clinical contexts.
PATIENT EMPOWERMENT
Patient empowerment encourages the active participation of patients and careers in choosing management options. The patient empowerment process in based on the following four main components: 1) understanding by the patient of his/her role; 2) acquisition by patients of sufficient knowledge to be able to engage with their healthcare provider; 3) patient skills; and 4) the presence of a facilitating environment. PhD students involved in this research area will develop theoretical and practical expertise to improve decision making in clinical contexts.
PhD students involved in this research area will investigate the psychosocial basis of patient empowerment in order to define new theoretical models and interventions to increase patient empowerment in research and clinical settings.
PATIENT-DOCTOR COMMUNICATION
Effective patient-doctor communication is a central clinical function in building a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship. This is important in the delivery of high-quality health care. Much patient dissatisfaction and many complaints are due to breakdown in the doctor-patient relationship. However, many doctors tend to overestimate their ability in communication. PhD students involved in this research area will investigate the cognitive and emotional components of patient-doctor communication in order to develop new paradigms to improve it.
Each candidate is invited to present a short proposal in one of the three areas and to apply for the position at the following page: http://www.semm.it/index.php/education/introduction-prospective-students/how-to-apply-prospective/application/available-positions-scholarship
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