B3801 - FARMACOLOGIA

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)

Learning outcomes

• Analyze the clinical implications and the Clinical Trials

Course contents

  • Placebo and placebo effect, nocebo and nocebo effect in pharmacology: definitions, overlapping, differences.
  • Factors impacting on placebo and nocebo effect of medicines.
  • Role of placebo in clinical trials: scientific, regulatory and ethical aspects.

Readings/Bibliography

https://eduonplacebo.unibo.it/. 

Teaching methods

Lectures and group activities, with support of scientific articles and clinical cases.

Assessment methods

Group activity results and discussion.

Teaching tools

https://eduonplacebo.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Elisabetta Poluzzi