Competencies and objectives

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Course context for academic year 2024-25

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Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

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.
  • 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.
  • CG19 : Devise and propose the preventive measures appropriate to each clinical situation.
  • 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.
  • CG21 : Listen mindfully, obtaining and integrating relevant information about the problems that afflict the patient, and understand the content of this information.
  • CG23 : Communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with patients, family members, the media, and other professionals.
  • 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

  • CE3.04 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main ophthalmological pathologies.
  • CE3.06 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the ear, nose and throat.

 

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

  • CE4.01 : Assess the risk/benefit ratio of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
  • CE4.02 : Know the indications for biochemical, hematological, immunological, microbiological, anatomopathological and imaging tests.
  • CE4.19 : Know the general surgical indications, the preoperative risk and postoperative complications.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

 

OPHTHALMOLOGY

(1) To know the basics of ophthalmological examination and the diseases whose fundamental symptom is a decrease in visual acuity. (2) To know amblyopia, its prophylaxis and therapeutic orientation. (3) To know the pathologies of the crystalline lens: aphakia, pseudoaphakia and cataracts, as well as their treatment. (4) To know the clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention of degenerative retinal diseases, retinal detachment and retinal lesions. To understand diabetic retinopathy, sclero-hypertensive retinopathy and other retinal vascular occlusions. (5) To understand the aetiopathogenesis of anterior, posterior and intermediate uveitis. Therapeutic approach. (6) Differential diagnosis of inflammatory eye diseases with red eye and therapeutic approach. Knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcers, episcleritis and scleritis. (7) Knowledge of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of glaucoma, acute glaucoma, secondary glaucoma and chronic glaucoma. (8) Understand the clinical manifestations and treatment of eyelid diseases: inflammation of the free palpebral margin, malpositions and the most common palpebral tumours. (9) Understand the different types of obstructions of the lacrimal ducts in adults and the most common orbital diseases, including trauma. (10) Diagnosis and treatment of ocular trauma: injuries to the inner canthus palpebrae, ocular perforation, ocular burns and alterations of the anterior or posterior segment after blunt trauma. (11) To know the ocular diseases that lead to blindness, macular degeneration and other maculopathies. (12) To know the most frequent tumours of the eyeball. Diagnosis and treatment of choroidal melanoma. (13) Recognise ophthalmological diseases in children and newborns: strabismus, ophthalmia, epiphora, congenital glaucoma, most frequent causes of lacrimation in newborns. (14) Know the different types of visual field exploration, topographical localisation of lesions of the optic pathway, papilla oedema or papilledema. Chiasmatic syndrome and alterations of the retrochiasmatic optic pathway. (15) To know the most frequent optic neuritis and the most frequent ischaemic optic neuropathies. Diagnostic and therapeutic orientation. Anisocoria and oculomotor paralysis.

OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY.

(1) Obtain a general otorhinolaryngological history and express the location of the pathology. (2) Know how to carry out a complete anamnesis, centred on the patient and oriented towards the different pathologies of the ear, nose-paranasal sinuses, pharyngolarynx and cervicofacial, interpreting their meaning. (3) Know how to carry out a physical examination by apparatus and systems. Recognise, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the Ear, Nose-Paranasal Sinuses, Pharyngolarynx and Cervicofacial. (4) Know how to assess the modifications of clinical parameters at different ages. (5) Identify and differentiate inflammatory and infectious pathology of the ear, pharynx, nasal cavities and larynx. (6) Know the causes of hearing loss, its diagnosis and possible treatments. (7) Provide appropriate guidance to any patient suspected of being a carrier of a malignant tumour in the area of Otorhinolaryngology. (8) Resolve the most frequent emergencies, such as epistaxis, foreign bodies, respiratory insufficiency, etc. (9) Establish diagnostic and therapeutic measures for patients suffering from vertiginous syndromes. (10) Differentiate between occupational diseases (e.g. noise trauma) and iatrogenic diseases (e.g. ototoxicity), in order to prevent their occurrence. (11) Correct interpretation of ENT reports, not only as a factor of help in other diseases that the patient may suffer from, but also to be able to advise them on ENT diseases and to follow their evolution. (12) Perform basic explorations, such as otoscopy, examination of the oropharynx, cervical palpation, accummetry, as well as correctly interpreting a tonal and verbal audiogram, and the most elementary radiographic projections and other more complex physical or instrumental explorations.
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OPHTHALMOLOGY

(1) To know the basics of ophthalmological examination and the diseases whose fundamental symptom is a decrease in visual acuity. (2) To know amblyopia, its prophylaxis and therapeutic orientation. (3) To know the pathologies of the crystalline lens: aphakia, pseudoaphakia and cataracts, as well as their treatment. (4) To know the clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention of degenerative retinal diseases, retinal detachment and retinal lesions. To understand diabetic retinopathy, sclero-hypertensive retinopathy and other retinal vascular occlusions. (5) To understand the aetiopathogenesis of anterior, posterior and intermediate uveitis. Therapeutic approach. (6) Differential diagnosis of inflammatory eye diseases with red eye and therapeutic approach. Knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcers, episcleritis and scleritis. (7) Knowledge of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of glaucoma, acute glaucoma, secondary glaucoma and chronic glaucoma. (8) Understand the clinical manifestations and treatment of eyelid diseases: inflammation of the free palpebral margin, malpositions and the most common palpebral tumours. (9) Understand the different types of obstructions of the lacrimal ducts in adults and the most common orbital diseases, including trauma. (10) Diagnosis and treatment of ocular trauma: injuries to the inner canthus palpebrae, ocular perforation, ocular burns and alterations of the anterior or posterior segment after blunt trauma. (11) To know the ocular diseases that lead to blindness, macular degeneration and other maculopathies. (12) To know the most frequent tumours of the eyeball. Diagnosis and treatment of choroidal melanoma. (13) Recognise ophthalmological diseases in children and newborns: strabismus, ophthalmia, epiphora, congenital glaucoma, most frequent causes of lacrimation in newborns. (14) Know the different types of visual field exploration, topographical localisation of lesions of the optic pathway, papilla oedema or papilledema. Chiasmatic syndrome and alterations of the retrochiasmatic optic pathway. (15) To know the most frequent optic neuritis and the most frequent ischaemic optic neuropathies. Diagnostic and therapeutic orientation. Anisocoria and oculomotor paralysis.

OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY.

(1) Obtain a general otorhinolaryngological history and express the location of the pathology. (2) Know how to carry out a complete anamnesis, centred on the patient and oriented towards the different pathologies of the ear, nose-paranasal sinuses, pharyngolarynx and cervicofacial, interpreting their meaning. (3) Know how to carry out a physical examination by apparatus and systems. Recognise, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the Ear, Nose-Paranasal Sinuses, Pharyngolarynx and Cervicofacial. (4) Know how to assess the modifications of clinical parameters at different ages. (5) Identify and differentiate inflammatory and infectious pathology of the ear, pharynx, nasal cavities and larynx. (6) Know the causes of hearing loss, its diagnosis and possible treatments. (7) Provide appropriate guidance to any patient suspected of being a carrier of a malignant tumour in the area of Otorhinolaryngology. (8) Resolve the most frequent emergencies, such as epistaxis, foreign bodies, respiratory insufficiency, etc. (9) Establish diagnostic and therapeutic measures for patients suffering from vertiginous syndromes. (10) Differentiate between occupational diseases (e.g. noise trauma) and iatrogenic diseases (e.g. ototoxicity), in order to prevent their occurrence. (11) Correct interpretation of ENT reports, not only as a factor of help in other diseases that the patient may suffer from, but also to be able to advise them on ENT diseases and to follow their evolution. (12) Perform basic explorations, such as otoscopy, examination of the oropharynx, cervical palpation, accummetry, as well as correctly interpreting a tonal and verbal audiogram, and the most elementary radiographic projections and other more complex physical or instrumental explorations.

 

 

 

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General

Code: 27232
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 9,00
Theoretical credits: 1,80
Practical credits: 1,80
Distance-base hours: 5,40

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