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.
  • CG14 : Perform a physical exam and mental assessment.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • CE3.03 : Recognize normal and pathological pregnancy and childbirth, the puerperium and sexually transmitted diseases. Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main gynecological pathologies. Know the methods of contraception and fertilization.
  • CE3.19 : Know the diagnosis and genetic counseling.
  • CE3.29 : Knowing how to explore and monitor pregnancy.

 

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

  • CE4.01 : Assess the risk/benefit ratio of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
  • CE4.19 : Know the general surgical indications, the preoperative risk and postoperative complications.
  • CE4.31 : Practice elementary surgical procedures for cleaning, haemostasis and suturing of wounds.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

-To acquire a global knowledge of the physiology of reproduction, starting with the female neurohormonal cycle (puberty, maturity and climacteric).
-Understand the development of pregnancy from fertilisation, maternal gravida changes and foetal and placental physiology.
To understand normal pregnancy, its diagnosis, prenatal consultation control (examination and follow-up), complementary tests, the appropriate evaluation of the intrauterine foetus, the lifestyles of the pregnant woman and the value of maternal education as well as the cataloguing of risk and the conduct to be followed.
-Understanding the concept of high risk and knowing the main diseases that can complicate pregnancy and that can be complicated by it. Third trimester haemorrhages and their differential diagnosis.
-To understand the methods of termination of pregnancy. Discern alterations in the chronology of gestation such as the threat of premature delivery, rupture of the amniotic sac or prolonged pregnancy. Know about maternal-fetal isoimmunisation, its prevention, diagnosis and behaviour. Pregnancy-related diseases such as pregnancy hypertension, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, Hellp syndrome, cholestasis, placental insufficiency with foetal growth retardation.

-Students will know the diagnosis of childbirth and its mechanisms, the assistance to it according to the updated criteria in uncomplicated childbirths. Distinguish between the different dystocias, including the strategy for breech delivery and gestation with previous caesarean section. Cephalo-pelvic disproportion and its diagnosis; soft tissue dystocia, tears and uterine rupture. Postpartum haemorrhage, its diagnosis and standardised conduct. To understand the puerperium with its physiological changes and pathology.
-To know the stages of foetal development, the diagnosis of chromosomal and morphological anomalies, alterations in foetal growth, tests of foetal wellbeing and their diagnosis as well as the different strategies during gestation (doppler,...) and intrapartum (monitoring, pH,...).
-Knowledge of gynaecological semiology and hence the main gynaecological syndromes. Functional alterations such as amenorrhoea, pathologies associated with menstruation and abnormal haemorrhages. Knowledge of gynaecological endocrinological disorders such as virilisation and hyperprolactinaemia.
Alterations related to the climacteric period. Knowledge of the basic study of conjugal sterility and assisted reproduction techniques and their medical-legal aspects. They will gain knowledge of family planning.
-Students will have knowledge about the most prevalent infections of the female genital apparatus as well as sexually transmitted infections. They will know the basics of endometriosis, its clinical and treatment, genital malformations and pelvic floor dysfunctions.
-You will learn about benign tumours of the uterus: myomas, with diagnosis and strategies. Ovarian tumours and their differential diagnoses. They will know all about malignant tumours of the genital apparatus including the breast (epidemiology, natural history, clinical, pathological anatomy, study strategy and therapeutic possibilities).

 

 

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

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General

Code: 27233
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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