Competencies and objectives

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Course context for academic year 2023-24

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Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : To read and understand texts in English.
  • CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
  • CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences

  • CG1 : Identify the essential elements of the medical profession, including ethical principles, legal responsibilities, and patient-centered professional practice.
  • CG10 : Understand and identify the causative agents and risk factors that induce the states of health and the development of the disease.
  • CG11 : Understand and identify the effects of growth, development and aging on the individual and their social environment.
  • CG12 : Understand the foundations of action, indications and efficacy of therapeutic interventions based on the available scientific evidence.
  • CG13 : Take and record a clinical history containing all relevant information.
  • CG14 : Perform a physical exam and mental assessment.
  • CG4 : Develop professional practice with respect for the autonomy of the patient, their beliefs and culture.
  • CG5 : Acknowledge their own limitations and the need to maintain and update their professional competence, with special emphasis on the autonomous learning of new knowledge and techniques and the motivation for quality.
  • CG9 : Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of the disease on the structure and function of the human body.

 

Specific competences:>>Module III: Human clinical training

  • CE3.31 : Know how to perform basic and advanced life support maneuvers.

 

Specific competences:>>Module IV: Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures

  • CE4.04 : Know the mechanisms of inflammation.
  • CE4.15 : Know the general principles of anesthesia and resuscitation.
  • CE4.18 : Know the pathophysiology of wounds (including burns, frostbite and other types of wounds). Know the healing processes, surgical bleeding and thromboembolic prophylaxis.
  • CE4.19 : Know the general surgical indications, the preoperative risk and postoperative complications.
  • CE4.20 : Learn about transfusions and transplants.
  • CE4.25 : Perform disinfection and sterilization techniques.
  • CE4.31 : Practice elementary surgical procedures for cleaning, haemostasis and suturing of wounds.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

- To know the general principles of anaesthesia and resuscitation.
- Know how to take a correct clinical history of the surgical patient.
-Know how to interpret the complementary explorations requested of the surgical patient.
-Know the general surgical indications, operative risk and postoperative complications.
-Know how to manage postoperative pain and chronic postoperative pain.
- Know how to assess the nutritional status of the surgical patient.
-Know how to perform basic and advanced life support manoeuvres.
Recognise, diagnose and know how to guide life-threatening situations, especially the management of polytrauma patients.
-Know the consequences of surgical aggression: haemorrhage, infections, malnutrition, as well as their prevention and treatment.
-Recognise, diagnose and guide the management of the main surgical pathologies of the digestive system.
-Recognise, diagnose and guide the management of the main surgical pathologies of the endocrine system.
-Know the physiopathology of wounds and healing processes.

-To understand antibiotic prophylaxis and thromboembolic prophylaxis in surgical patients.
- To know the general aspects of surgical infections.
-To understand the basis of the immune, metabolic and endocrine response to surgical aggression.
-Know the techniques of surgical haemostasis and the indications for transfusion of haemoderivatives.
-To manage disinfection and sterilisation techniques.
-Know how to perform surgical scrubbing.
-Identify the appropriate surgical positions for each type of intervention.
-Identify the most common surgical material and instruments.
-Practise elementary surgical procedures for cleaning, haemostasis and suturing wounds.
-Know the basic pathology of the abdominal wall: hernia, eventration and evisceration.
-Know the basics of laparoscopic surgery.
-To know the characteristics of major outpatient surgery.
-To know the basic concepts of oncological surgery.
-To know the basic concepts of organ transplants.
-To learn about new technologies in surgery: robotic surgery.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24

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General

Code: 27225
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

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