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.
  • 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.
  • CG28 : Obtain and use epidemiological data and assess trends and risks for health decision-making.
  • 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.

 

Specific competences:>>Module III: Human clinical training

  • CE3.15 : Know the main infectious agents and their mechanisms of action.
  • CE3.16 : Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main infectious pathologies in the different organs and systems.

 

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.
  • CE4.08 : Know the fundamentals of microbiology and parasitology. Know the main microbiological and parasitological diagnostic techniques and interpret the results.
  • 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.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

- Conocer los agentes microbianos causales de las infecciones más importantes y frecuentes, su taxonomía y sus principales características biológicas de interés clínico.

- Conocer la patogenia, historia natural y pronóstico de los principales procesos infecciosos bacterianos, víricos, fúngicos y parasitarios.

- Conocer la sensibilidad de los microorganismos a los distintos agentes antimicrobianos, así como sus mecanismos de resistencia.

- Conocer los principales Síndromes clínicos infecciosos con afectación de órgano: sistema nervioso central, pulmón, infecciones cardiacas y endovasculares, tracto genitourinario, hueso y partes blandas

- Interpretar el diagnóstico microbiológico y pruebas de imagen. Conocer las técnicas de microbiología molecular y de espectometría de masas para el diagnóstico de las infecciones bacterianas y virales

- Conocer los principales esquemas terapéuticos utilizados en las infecciones comunitarias y las infecciones nosocomiales

- Conocer las medidas de prevención de infecciones transmisibles en la Comunidad y en el Hospital. Programas de vacunaciones

- Conocer las Enfermedades infecciosas emergentes y las enfermedades parasitarias

- Conocer las enfermedades infecciosas oportunistas que afectan al paciente inmunodeprimido

- Conocer las grandes enfermedades infecto-contagiosas: infección VIH/sida, influenza, tuberculosis e infecciones de transmisión sexual

- Conocer las infecciones emergentes y re-emergentes y el riesgo de nuevas pandemias - Conocer las infecciones transmitidas por artrópodos y las zoonosis

 

 

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

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General

Code: 27251
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

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