Competencies and objectives

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Course context for academic year 2023-24

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Course competencies (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.
  • 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.
  • CG15 : Ability to develop an initial diagnostic judgment and establish a reasoned diagnostic strategy.
  • CG16 : Recognize and treat situations that put life in immediate danger and those that require immediate attention.
  • CG17 : Determine the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, applying the principles based on the best possible information and in safe clinical conditions.
  • CG18 : Prescribe the most appropriate therapy for the most prevalent acute and chronic processes, as well as for terminally ill patients.
  • CG20 : Acquire adequate clinical experience under supervision, in hospitals, health centers or other health institutions, as well as basic knowledge of patient-centered clinical management and proper use of tests, medications and other health system resources.
  • CG23 : Communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with patients, family members, the media, and other professionals.
  • CG25 : Identify the determinants for health in the population: genetic; sex and lifestyle dependent; demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural.
  • 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.
  • CG7 : Understand and discern the normal structure and function of the human body, at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organic and systems level, in the different stages of life and in both sexes.
  • 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

  • CE3.01 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main skin pathologies.

 

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

  • 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.
  • CE4.21 : Know the principles and indications of radiotherapy.
  • CE4.23 : Know how to obtain and process a biological sample for study through the different diagnostic procedures.
  • 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 main anatomical elements that make up the skin as well as its physiology.
Know the main elementary, clinical and histological lesions.
Determine the main indications for skin biopsy and know how to perform a basic interpretation of the histological findings of healthy and diseased skin.
Know the most representative diseases in the field of dermatology, classifying them according to their morphology and establishing their guidelines for action or treatment,
Describe the main diseases of infectious origin produced by living agents. Identify the specific techniques to establish their diagnosis, as well as their microbiological classification. Identify the prognosis and treatment of these diseases, as well as their subsequent epidemiological monitoring.
Know the main immunological and physiopathological mechanisms that cause diseases produced by immunological dysfunctions. Identify the main diagnostic tests specific to each of the pathologies analysed, establishing their diagnosis.
Know the main pre-neoplastic entities, establishing their diagnosis and guidelines for action or treatment.
Understand the main neoplastic diseases, establishing their diagnosis and treatment.
Describe the main diseases produced by the proliferation of certain skin cells, establishing their diagnosis and treatment.
Establish the therapeutic plan for the most frequent skin diseases.
Know the basic surgical techniques for the treatment of skin diseases.
Identify the pathology that can be treated by means of plastic surgery, the basic techniques and the expected results.
Know the principles and activities of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Know the principles of care for patients suffering from burns caused by different agents.
  • To know the main anatomical elements that make up the skin as well as its physiology.
  • Know the main elementary, clinical and histological lesions.
  • Determine the main indications for skin biopsy and know how to perform a basic interpretation of the histological findings of healthy and diseased skin.
  • Know the most representative diseases in the field of dermatology, classifying them according to their morphology and establishing their guidelines for action or treatment,
  • Describe the main diseases of infectious origin produced by living agents. Identify the specific techniques to establish their diagnosis, as well as their microbiological classification. Identify the prognosis and treatment of these diseases, as well as their subsequent epidemiological monitoring.
  • Know the main immunological and physiopathological mechanisms that cause diseases produced by immunological dysfunctions. Identify the main diagnostic tests specific to each of the pathologies analysed, establishing their diagnosis.
  • Know the main pre-neoplastic entities, establishing their diagnosis and guidelines for action or treatment.
  • Understand the main neoplastic diseases, establishing their diagnosis and treatment.
  • Describe the main diseases produced by the proliferation of certain skin cells, establishing their diagnosis and treatment.
  • Establish the therapeutic plan for the most frequent skin diseases.
  • Know the basic surgical techniques for the treatment of skin diseases.
  • Identify the pathology that can be treated by means of plastic surgery, the basic techniques and the expected results.
  • Know the principles and activities of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
  • Know the principles of care for patients suffering from burns caused by different agents.

 

 

 

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

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General

Code: 27228
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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