Program Overview
Program Overview
The program in question is "INTERCULTURALITÀ NELL'ASSISTENZA OSTETRICA" (Interculturality in Obstetric Care), which is part of the university's course offerings.
Program Details
- Code: 68031
- Academic Year: 2025/2026
- CFU: 2 CFU in the 2nd year of the Obstetrics course (9278) - GENOVA
- Scientific Disciplinary Sector: MED/47
- Language: Italian
- Location: GENOVA
- Period: 2nd Semester
- Modules: This teaching is a module of: SCIENZE DELLA SALUTE (Health Sciences)
- Teaching Material: Available on AULAWEB
Presentation
Becoming a mother is a significant moment for all women, but the way one gives birth and becomes a mother changes in different parts of the world. The obstetrician has an active role in health education, family support, and accompanying these women towards maternity.
Objectives and Contents
Educational Objectives (Detail) and Learning Outcomes
The teaching aims to deepen the traditions, understand cultural differences, destructure stereotypes spread in society, and work on the concept of empathy with specific attention to migratory trauma.
At the end of the teaching, the student will be able to:
- Know the differences in the care pathway for female and couple well-being, the different interpretations of the concept of health and normality to work together with women in respect of all parts.
- Recognize the needs of foreign women even when they are not formally expressed.
- Apply the knowledge provided during the lessons in the practical internship.
- Distinguish what type of assistance is most appropriate for the patient not only from a clinical point of view but in a global sense to respect the couple's culture.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons supported by slides: reading and commentary of testimonies; viewing of two documentaries on the theme; meeting with a new Syrian mother or of another culture; clinical cases.
Program/Content
Hints of communication and migration (data, social problems, characteristics of migrant populations, emotional aspects, and legal practices for insertion into the territory and the National Health Service).
The role of the cultural mediator.
The obstetrician in transculturality (different ways of taking care, assisting birth while respecting different modes from ours).
Analysis of traditions related to maternity and birth stories.
Observations on the theme of female genital mutilation.
Attention to contraception, STDs, and risk situations to which foreign women are more exposed.
Texts/Bibliography
- BERTOLINI, BOMBARDI, MANFREDINI - Assistenza infermieristica e Ostetrica Transculturale. Teoria-Metodologia e Applicazioni.
- FONTANEL, D'HARCOURT - Bebè dal mondo.
- MORO, NEUMAN, RÉAL - Maternità in esilio. Bambini e migrazioni.
- EMANUELA ABBATECOLA - Trans-migrazioni.
- D&D n°72 - Assistenza alla donna immigrata.
- LUCINA 2-2016: Welfare e multietnia: l'ostetrica.
- CENTRO SCUOLE E NUOVE CULTURE: accoglienza, memorie famigliari e sistemi di cura nell'incontro fra culture.
- THOMAS BALMÈS: Babies (documentary film from 2010).
- GILLES DE MAISTRE: Il primo respiro (documentary from 2007).
- Practice Guide for Perinatal Health Care of Migrant, Asylum-seeking & Refugee Women (Operational Refugee And Migrant Maternal Approach)
- GLOBAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (2018) - UNITED NATIONS
- Report on the health of refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region (World Health Organization)
- Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Region: final report
- Female Genital Mutilation and its Management (RCOG)
Teachers and Commissions
- Teacher: ELISA FERRO
- Examination Commission:
- ALESSIA DE SIMONE (President)
- FRANCESCA GROSSO
- GIANCARLO ALESSANDRO ICARDI
- MARIANO MARTINI
- ALESSANDRA VALSUANI
- ANJEZA XHOLLI
- ELISA FERRO (President and Coordinator of the integrated course)
Lessons
Start of Lessons
2nd semester
Lesson Schedule
The schedule for this teaching is available at: Portale EasyAcademy
Exams
Examination Method
Written
Assessment Method
10 multiple-choice questions. One point for each correct answer, zero points for each incorrect answer.
The questions will focus on the topics covered in the lessons to understand if the fundamental concepts have been internalized.
Sufficiency is obtained by correctly answering at least 6 questions out of 10.
In case of insufficiency, it is possible to deepen with oral questions.