Competencies and objectives
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.
- 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.
- 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 I: Morphology, structure and function of the human body
- CE1.03 : Understand the basic principles of human nutrition.
Specific competences:>>Module III: Human clinical training
- CE3.12 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the endocrine system.
- CE3.13 : Know the pathologies of nutrition.
- CE3.16 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main infectious pathologies in the different organs and systems.
- 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.
- CE3.28 : Knowing how to assess changes in clinical parameters at different ages.
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.
- CE4.16 : Know the general principles of nutrition and diet therapy and their application in health promotion, disease prevention and treatment.
- CE4.24 : Know how to interpret the results of diagnostic laboratory tests.
- CE4.27 : Know how to use the various drugs properly.
- CE4.30 : Assess nutritional status and prepare an adequate diet for different circumstances.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
Durante el periodo de formación el alumnado tiene que adquirir los conocimientos teóricos y las habilidades clínicas que le permitan identificar los principales problemas endocrino-metabólicos y nutricionales. Además, el alumnado tendrá que ser capaz de orientar el diagnóstico, mediante el uso racional de los métodos diagnósticos actuales y el tratamiento de las enfermedades endocrino-metabólicas y los trastornos de la nutrición. La enseñanza práctica y los seminarios, buscan el que los conocimientos técnicos se complementen con la destreza y las habilidades en la recogida y valoración de síntomas y signos. Además, el contacto con el enfermo permitirá al estudiante obtener la formación humana necesaria para que en su futuro ejercicio profesional, la comprensión y la empatía sean las características fundamentales de su relación con los enfermos. Por último, un objetivo esencial de la enseñanza debe ser el de proporcionar los conocimientos, las habilidades y las actitudes necesarias para que el alumnado sea capaz de progresar por sí mismo (auto-aprendizaje e investigación) en su futuro profesional.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26
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General
Code:
27250
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: 5)