MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND COMUNICATION (DEN-3)

Subject name: Medical Psychology and Communication

Target group: students of the 3^rd year in dentistry program

Education timeframe: winter semester

Education extent: 12/10 E (2 credits)

LECTURES

Lecture time schedule: week No. 2 - 7

The lectures will be held online and will be available in the MS TEAMS (where the link to the SharePoint application is provided).

Consultations are held via MS Teams at the times specified in the timetable. Each consultation is led by the designated consultant according to the SCHEDULE.

Please send your questions to the Department Secretariat sona.krajcovicova@fmed.uniba.sk at no later than 24 hours before the consultation. The consultation invitation will be posted in Teams. If no questions are received, the consultation will not take place.

One consultation will be scheduled in the last week of the semester, regardless of whether questions are delivered.

date of consultation in MS Teams	lecture no.	topic	consultant
22.09.2025	1	Medical psychology – concept and basic terms. Structure of psychic functions. Consciousness, attention, perception, imagination, emotions, thinking.	prof. Pečeňák
29.09.2025	2	Intelligence, memory, drives, instincts, will, acting.	prof. Pečeňák
06.10.2025	3	Personality-typology, defense mechanisms of personality, Pathopsychology.	doc. Trebatická / Prof. Pečeňák
13.10.2025	4	Developmental psychology, life stages, psychological crises.	doc. Trebatická
20.10.2025	5	Communication in medicine, relationships between health professionals and patients. Empathy, assertivity.	prof. Pečeňák
27.10.2025	6	Psychophysiology, psychosomatics, psychogenesis.	prof. Pečeňák

PRACTICAL TRAININGS

Practical trainings are divided into two parts: seminar and practical. The seminar part takes place in a distant (online) form. Videopresentations on individual topics are published in MS TEAMS (where the link to the SharePoint application is provided).

The student is obliged to watch videopresentation and to review the seminar part of the practical exercises before the practical part. The practical part will take place in person. The condition for participation in the practical part will be successful completion of the examination of knowledge from the seminar part (and relevant lectures if already published) at the beginning of the practical part.

For detailed terms of practical exercises including assigned teachers for individual study groups, see the SCHEDULE.

Topic No. 1 (starting at 09:30) is placed in teaching rooms at the Department of Psychiatry (Mickiewiczova 13, entry E, 3^rd floor).

Topic No. 2 (starting at 09:30) is placed at the Department of Paediatric Psychiatry (Limbová 1, 7^th floor). This practical is marked in the schedule with §.

Practical trainings are compulsory; all presences are required for course completion. Knowledge level (according to specific topic) will be evaluated during each practical by teachers. Compensation of missing practicals must be arranged with the teacher at least 1 day in advance.

No.	Topic
1	Psychology of the patient Demonstration and assessment of some attitudes of the patient to his own disease. Psychology of the treatment (placebo effect). Communication: Doctor - patient interaction (assessement and intervention) They include the skills of "active listening" empathy non - verbal communication opening, controlling and closing an interview.
2	Specificity of communication with children and adolescents Practicals at the Department of Paediatric Psychiatry.

No.

Topic

Psychology of the patient Demonstration and assessment of some attitudes of the patient to his own disease. Psychology of the treatment (placebo effect).

Communication: Doctor - patient interaction (assessement and intervention) They include the skills of "active listening" empathy non - verbal communication opening, controlling and closing an interview.

Specificity of communication with children and adolescents Practicals at the Department of Paediatric Psychiatry.