Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2024-25
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Course content (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.
- 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.
- 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.
- CG19 : Devise and propose the preventive measures appropriate to each clinical situation.
- CG2 : Understand the importance of such principles for the benefit of the patient, society and the profession, with special attention to professional secrecy.
- 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.
- CG22 : To draft medical histories and other medical records in a comprehensible fashion.
- CG23 : Communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with patients, family members, the media, and other professionals.
- CG24 : Establish good interpersonal communication skills that enable to address patients, family members, the media, and other professionals with efficiency and empathy.
- CG3 : Know how to apply the principle of social justice to professional practice and understand the ethical implications of health in a changing world context.
- 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.
- CG6 : Develop professional practice with respect to other health professionals, acquiring teamwork skills.
- 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
- CE3.08 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the digestive system.
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.
- CE4.10 : Recognize a radiological image. Know the basic radiological semiology of the different devices and systems.
- CE4.14 : Know the main groups of drugs, doses, routes of administration and pharmacokinetics. Know their interactions and adverse effects. Acquire knowledge about prescription and pharmacovigilance. Know the pharmacology of the different devices and systems. Know the analgesic, antineoplastic, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- To know the prevalence and main risk factors of diseases of the digestive system and abdominal surgical pathology.
- To know the prevalence and main risk factors of liver and biliary tract diseases and hepatobiliary surgical pathology.
- Know the aetiology and physiopathology of the most frequent diseases of the digestive system.
- Take a clinical history aimed at identifying digestive problems and perform an abdominal examination.
- Make a correct diagnostic hypothesis and guide the diagnostic process taking into account criteria of rationality and efficiency of the main diseases of the digestive system, liver and biliary tract.
- Know how to interpret the most frequently used tests in the diagnosis of abdominal processes.
- Use the appropriate therapy for each process, both pharmacological and interventional, understood as endoscopic or radiological, taking into account patient safety, the implications for quality of life and the cost to the health system.
- Know the surgical indications for processes affecting the digestive system, the expected results, the risks involved and postoperative management.
- To be able to determine the prognosis and indications for long-term therapy of chronic diseases of the digestive system.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25
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General
Code:
27235
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS:
6,00
Theoretical credits:
1,20
Practical credits:
1,20
Distance-base hours:
3,60
Departments involved
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DEGREE IN MEDICINE
Course type: COMPULSORY (Year: 4)