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.
• 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.
• CG35 : Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thought in the study, prevention and management of diseases.
• 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

• CE3.18 : Know the morphofunctional characteristics of the newborn, child and adolescent. Know the processes of the main pediatric pathologies. Acquire the bases in child nutrition.
• CE3.20 : Know the cognitive, emotional and psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence. Know the biological, psychological and social foundations of personality and behavior.
• CE3.26 : Knowing how to make a complete anamnesis, centered on the patient and oriented to the various pathologies, interpreting their meaning.
• CE3.27 : Knowing how to perform a physical examination of the different bodily apparatuses and systems, as well as a psychopathological examination, interpreting their meaning.

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.
• CE4.07 : Know the biochemical, cytogenetic and molecular biology markers applied to clinical diagnosis.
• CE4.12 : Assess the indications and contraindications of radiological studies.
• 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.
• CE4.24 : Know how to interpret the results of diagnostic laboratory tests.
• CE4.30 : Assess nutritional status and prepare an adequate diet for different circumstances.