Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2025-26
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Course content (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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- CE3.10 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the locomotor 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.
- CE4.03 : Know the characteristics of tissues in different situations of injury, adaptation and cell death.
- CE4.12 : Assess the indications and contraindications of radiological studies.
- CE4.18 : Know the pathophysiology of wounds (including burns, frostbite and other types of wounds). Know the healing processes, surgical bleeding and thromboembolic prophylaxis.
- CE4.19 : Know the general surgical indications, the preoperative risk and postoperative complications.
- CE4.22 : Know the fundamentals of rehabilitation, the promotion of personal autonomy, functional adaptation to the environment, and other physical procedures in morbidity, to improve the quality of life.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
El objetivo es el conocimiento de los conceptos generales sobre la patología del aparato locomotor, de su estructura y función de los tejidos que la componen y su fisiopatología. Incluye la adquisición de conocimientos sobre la prevención, la valoración clínica, el diagnóstico, el tratamiento quirúrgico, no quirúrgico y rehabilitador y el seguimiento hasta el restablecimiento funcional definitivo de los procesos congénitos, traumáticos, infecciosos, tumorales, metabólicos, degenerativos y de las deformidades y trastornos funcionales adquiridos del aparato locomotor y de sus estructuras asociadas.
Incluye la adquisición de habilidades en la elaboración de la historia clínica, examen físico y exploración del aparato locomotor. Reconocer y tratar situaciones de urgencia de la patología musculoesquelética. Habilidades en técnicas de suturas, reducciones e inmovilizaciones. Establecimiento de diagnóstico y tratamiento basados en la mejor información posible con la mayor evidencia disponible en el momento actual.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26
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General
Code:
27239
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)