Communication and Relationships in Medicine.

New Perspectives for Medical "Etiquette"

Rome, February 16-17, 2008

Index

Preface (by Roberto Bernabei)
Address by the Holy Father
Address by the Italian Ministry of Health
Communication and Relationships in Medicine (by Chiara Lubich)

First session
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS IN MEDICINE

Medicine – Dialogue – Communion: Origins, Development and Objectives (by Giuseppe Mazzella)
The “Person” in Relationship: which Reference? (by Vera Araújo)
Communication and Relationships in Medicine: State of the Art (by Flavia Caretta)

2nd session
THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP

Technological Development and the Doctor-Patient Relationship (by IGNAZIO R. MARINO)
Medical Practice, Communication and Quality of Life (by MICHEL DUPUIS)
From building the Clinical History up to the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives (by TEODORO MAROTTA)
Healing the Healer (by MASSIMO PETRINI)

3rd session
Round table
COMMUNICATING THE DIAGNOSIS IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK

The Communication of the Diagnosis in an Interdisciplinary Framework (moderators: GABRIELLE METTENDORFF and ENRICO REZZONICO)
Communicating the Diagnosis (by GABRIELLE METTENDORF)
Communicating the Diagnosis in Serious Neurological Disease (by PAOLO BONGIOANNI)
Communicating the Diagnosis: a Means for developing Collaboration (by DAVID WHITE)
Peculiarity and Uniqueness of Communicating the Diagnosis in Pediatrics (by LUISA DE CRISTOFARO and ROSANNA CORDIALI)
Communicating with Terminal Patients: my Experience (by UMBERTO MAZZOTTI DIEZ)
The Maternal-Foetal Symbiosis (di SALVATORE MANCUSO)
Doctor-Trainee/Student-Patient Relationship in Daily Practice (by WITOLD LUKAS)
Round Table’s Conclusion

4th session
RELATIONSHIPS AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS
Inter-relationships among Health Care Operators: Requirements, Methods, Outcome (by ANTONIO ACQUAVIVA)

Presentation of some Applied Models
Cooperation in the Ikazia Hospital - Rotterdam (the Netherlands) (by MATHIEU P.C. MIDDELKOOP)
An Experience in a Hospital for the Chronically Ill in Tilburg (the Netherlands) (by PILAR FERNANDEZ DEL MORAL)

Epidemiology at the Center of Interdisciplinary and Interpersonal Relationships: Center of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Faculty of Medicine (Oran, Algeria) (by FAROUK M. MESLI)
The IRIS Experience (by GIOVANNI SCAMBIA)
Interdisciplinary Practice of Geriatrics: a Formation Hypothesis (by ALBERTO MARSILIO)

5th session
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM

Components of professionalism in a changing society (by CESARE CATANANTI)

Round-table discussion: Interpreting Professionalism
Relationship in University Teaching (by FERNANDA MORRONE BUENO)
Including “Interrelating” as a Subject in the Professional Formation Course for Medical Students (by MARTA IUZZOLINI, LUCIA LUZZI and SPARTACO MENCARONI)
Experience in Sint Anthonius Hospital in Nieuwegein (the Netherlands) (of GERARD VAN MEEL)
Medical Professionalism: a GP’s Perspective (by MABEL AGHADIUNO)
Evolution of the Hospital and Commitments to be assumed (by YVONNE KREMMER)
The Therapy for Chronic Pain: Painmedicine (by GABRIELE MUELLER)
What is Professionalism to me? How do I practice it? (by AINO MIRJAM INKERI KELO)

6th session
MOVING FROM INTERRELATING TO RECIPROCITY

The Reciprocity: its Implications in the Medical Sphere (by ANNA FRATTA)
International Projects: Achievements, Preliminary Results, New Horizons
IOTA Experience (International Ovarian Tumour Analysis Collaborative Group) (by ANTONIA TESTA, DIRK TIMMERMAN and LIL VALENTIN)
A new cultural model for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. A project in Africa, based on UNAIDS recommandations (by MARCEL MBULA)
Bukas Palad: Community Healthcare in Manila (by IMELDA PALOMINO)
A Journey in Reciprocity: from the Clinica Sorriso (in Recife, Brazil) to the Clinic dor Adopted and Immigrant Children (Meyer Hospital, Florence) (by GIUSEPPINA VENERUSO, HONORINA NOBREGA COSTA and JOSAFÀ DE OLIVEIRA COSTA)
Cervical Cancer Management: Development of a Partnership Model based on Ethnographic Approach between Countries with Different Healthcare Standards (Italy-Cameroon) (by LAURA FALCHI)

Conclusion (by FLAVIA CARETTA, ANTONIO ACQUAVIVA and ANTONIA TESTA)