Peer Education on Health - Badge
Name
Issuer
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.
Issued since 02 December 2016.
Description
The owner of this Badge has acquired skills in relations and communication which can help pass on, to his or her peers, knowledge related to education and health. These skills have been acquired through attending a peer education course, covering topics concerning the promotion of health. Peer education is a form of training led by a person or group of people who have similar characteristics to those receiving the training. The peer educator, who is suitably qualified, corrects the inadequate behaviour of his or her peers, using the same communicative language and putting forward the same values. In 2016 the SPES - Health: learning medicine, teaching health course was held, for Master’s Degree students in Medicine and Surgery, enrolled in the third, fourth and fifth years. The acronym SPES actually stands for Student Peer Education for Students. The course includes 24 hours of training, held by lecturers, doctors and psychologists; 16 devoted to communication techniques and 8 on specific issues of promoting health. A maximum number of 25 participants are admitted, who are selected on the basis of a motivational interview. At the end of the training course, the students prepare a peer education exercise using students enrolled in degree courses for health professions, based on one of the issues dealt with during their training.
Badge Criteria
The holder of the Peer Education on Health Badge has attended at least 80% of the activities programmed in the course and has completed an exercise of promotion of health directed towards his or her own peers.
Skills
The holder of this Badge has demonstrated that he or she possesses and knows how to use the following SKILLS: peer education; education on health; promotion of health; and the following SOFT SKILLS: ability to communicate; ability to work in a team; creativity. The holder of this Badge has also acquired aspects of KNOWLEDGE in the following areas: hygiene and preventive medicine; healthy eating habits; prevention of addiction to smoking, alcohol and drugs.
Tags
Health, Peereducation, Healthpromotion