- Docente: Elisabetta Poluzzi
- Credits: 1
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)
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from Jun 11, 2025 to Jun 12, 2025
Learning outcomes
Investigate the ethical considerations surrounding the use of placebos and nocebos in clinical practice and research. Pursue innovative thinking and problem-solving skills through practical case studies and group projects and debates. Foster critical analysis of placebo-controlled clinical trials and their implications for evidence-based medicine.
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