Learning objectives
The course aims to improve understanding of the relationship between biological phenomena and technologies useful for their monitoring/analysis.
The objective is to be able to acquire a base of interdisciplinary knowledge, useful for achieving progressive autonomy in the judgment and selection of the tests to which patients are subjected.
Course unit content
The educational path will go through 3 distinct phases:
1) MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PRINCIPLES
2) PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
3) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
-The first phase will focus on the principles underlying the functioning of our organism (water, energy, main classes of biological macromolecules, cell cycle)
-In the central part of the course, the issues relating to the principles attached to the organs will be addressed in functional and collaborative terms (communication, energy balance, distribution/management of substances)
- In the last session of the course, the technologies supporting the doctor will be illustrated, describing their operating principles (biomechanics, instrumentation, bioimaging, biotechnology, bioprinting, healthcare 4.0, artificial intelligence)
Bibliography
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Bridging Medicine and Technology
-W. Mark Saltzman, Yale University
Cambridge University Press
eBook (EBL): ISBN-13 978-0-511-58022-2
Hardback: ISBN-13 978-0-521-84099-6
Teaching methods
Classrooms lectures with slides.
