Competencies and objectives

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Course context for academic year 2025-26

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Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • CG26 : Assume their role in actions to prevent and protect against illnesses, injuries or accidents, and in the maintenance and promotion of health, both at the individual and community level.
  • CG29 : Know the national and international health organizations and the environments and constraints of the different health systems.
  • 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.
  • CG30 : Basic knowledge of the National Health System and health legislation.
  • CG31 : Know, critically assess and know how to use clinical and biomedical information sources to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific and health information.
  • CG32 : Know how to use information and communication technologies in clinical, therapeutic, preventive and research activities.
  • CG33 : Keep and use patient information records for subsequent analysis, preserving the confidentiality of the data.
  • CG34 : Adopt a critical, creative, constructively sceptical and research-oriented standpoint in professional practice. in professional practice in professional practicein professional practice
  • CG35 : Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thought in the study, prevention and management of diseases.
  • CG36 : Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem solving, following the scientific method.
  • CG37 : Acquire basic training for research activity.
  • 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.
  • 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 II: Social Medicine, communication skills and initiation to research

  • CE2.01 : Know the legal foundations of the practice of the medical profession. Informed consent. Confidentiality.
  • CE2.02 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the treatment of physical and mental damage.
  • CE2.03 : Know and recognize the normal evolution of the corpse. Postmortem diagnosis. Know and apply fundamentals of medical criminology. Being able to draft medical-legal documents.
  • CE2.04 : Know the fundamentals of medical ethics and Bioethics. Resolve ethical conflicts. Apply the professional values of excellence, altruism, sense of duty, responsibility, integrity and honesty to the exercise of the profession. Recognize the need to maintain professional competence. Knowing how to approach professional practice respecting the autonomy of the patient, her beliefs and culture.
  • CE2.05 : Knowing how to assess the risk factors and prevention of the disease. Recognize the determinants of population health. Sanitary indicators. Know the systems of planning, programming and evaluation of health programs. Understand the actions in the prevention and protection against diseases, injuries and accidents. Know how to evaluate the quality of care and patient safety strategies. Know the importance of vaccinations. Understand the general concepts in epidemiology and demography. Learn about health planning and administration at a global, European, Spanish and regional level. Know the economic and social implications of medical action, considering criteria of effectiveness and efficiency. Know the strategies in health and environment, food safety and occupational health.
  • CE2.15 : Write histories, reports, instructions and other records understandable to patients, relatives and other professionals.
  • CE2.16 : Carry out a public presentation, oral and written, of scientific papers and/or professional reports.

 

Specific competences:>>Module III: Human clinical training

  • CE3.32 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of clinical toxicology.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Know how to draw up medico-legal documents. Analyse under what circumstances and know how a medico-legal investigation of death is carried out, both during the process of the removal of the body and ocular inspection, including the collection of evidence, and during the autopsy and the complementary tests requested, identifying violent injuries and their mechanism of production. Knowing how to draw up an expert report in the legal field. Collaborate in the assistance and assessment of victims of sexual aggression, gender violence and domestic violence. Know how to carry out an assessment of bodily injury and evaluation of disabilities. Know how to diagnose intoxications, both in the living subject and in the corpse, and how to prevent them. Know how to approach the psychiatric patient in the medical-legal field, and apply the concepts of imputability, incapacity and psychiatric internment.

Know the legal and ethical foundations of medical professional deontology. To know the general outlines of the main conceptions of ethics. Know the origin and main features of bioethics. Know how to be responsible, honest and upright in the professional practice of medicine. Know how to resolve bioethical problems in accordance with a methodology that respects the principles of rationality, reasonableness and openness.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

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General

Code: 27231
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 9,00
Theoretical credits: 1,80
Practical credits: 1,80
Distance-base hours: 5,40

Departments involved

  • Dept: PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH
    Area: PERSONALITAT, AVALUACIO I TRACTAMENT PSICOLOGIC
    Theoretical credits: 1,8
    Practical credits: 1,8
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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