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

  • 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.
  • CG15 : Ability to develop an initial diagnostic judgment and establish a reasoned diagnostic strategy.
  • CG17 : Determine the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, applying the principles based on the best possible information and in safe clinical conditions.
  • CG25 : Identify the determinants for health in the population: genetic; sex and lifestyle dependent; demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural.
  • CG36 : Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem solving, following the scientific method.
  • 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 optional competences:>>Module 6: Complementary training

  • CEO.04 : Know the molecular foundations of personalized medicine.
  • CEO.05 : Know the influence of the human microbiota on health and disease.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Conocer las bases moleculares de los mecanismos de virulencia y supervivencia de patógenos. Conocer la diversidad, dinámica y composición del microbioma humano y su influencia en la salud y la enfermedad. Conocer los fundamentos de la virología molecular. Conocer las principales aplicaciones de virus y bacterias en medicina. Adquirir un conocimiento avanzado de los mecanismos moleculares causantes de enfermedades neurodegenerativas, como Alzheimer y Parkinson. Conocer y comprender los diferentes tipos de genes supresores de tumores y su mecanismo de acción. Conocer la tipología molecular de cánceres y su aplicación actual en el diagnóstico, pronóstico y tratamiento. Conocer y comprender las técnicas actualmente aplicadas en el diagnóstico genético directo de enfermedades hereditarias. Conocer y comprender los métodos actuales de diagnóstico genético indirecto y de identificación de nuevos genes asociados a enfermedades hereditarias. Conocer las aplicaciones en medicina de las técnicas de secuenciación masiva.

 

 

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

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General

Code: 27248
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,28
Practical credits: 1,12
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: PHYSIOLOGY, GENETICS AND MICROBIOLOGY
    Area: MICROBIOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 0,64
    Practical credits: 0,56
  • Dept: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND SOIL AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
    Area: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 0,64
    Practical credits: 0,56
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught