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6734 - Medicine and Surgery
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Graduates know:
• The morphological, biochemical, physiological, and social factors that contribute to the health status of individuals.
• Causes, mechanisms, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for the most common diseases.
• National healthcare organisation, ethical and legal aspects of the medical profession.
• Clinical experimentation methods and scientific professional updating tools.
Graduates acquire knowledge through lectures, interdisciplinary workshops, e-learning, small-group activities, laboratories, problem-solving, discussion of clinical cases, and clinical clerkships. Since English is the language of instruction, graduates also improve their English language competence.
Knowledge will be assessed through exams, intermediate tests, practical evaluations, and the final dissertation.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Graduates can:
• Assess the health status of patients, taking into account their lifestyle and other congenital or environmental risk factors, and suggest adequate prevention strategies.
• Prescribe adequate therapies for the most common diseases and recommend further specialised diagnostic and therapeutic strategies when needed.
• Cooperate with other healthcare professionals to manage complex patients.
• Assess the scientific and ethical accuracy of innovative medical approaches.
• Assess medical exams and documents written in English, and communicate with English-speaking patients.
Graduates develop abilities to apply knowledge through lectures, interdisciplinary workshops, e-learning, small-group activities, laboratories, exercises, discussion of clinical cases, and clinical clerkships. Teaching methodologies will be predominantly interactive, allowing students to take an active role in acquiring knowledge, in order to develop clinical reasoning skills and communicate in English.
The capacity to apply knowledge will be assessed through exams, intermediate tests, practical evaluations, and the final dissertation.
MAKING JUDGEMENTS
Graduates can identify and interpret relevant data to solve simple and complex health-related issues. They can distinguish whether inaccuracies result from incomplete medical or scientific knowledge, or from technical limitations. In the afore mentioned contexts, they are able to take into account their ethical and social responsibilities when drawing conclusions.
More specifically, graduates can:
1) Use information from biomedical research (both pre-clinical and clinical) in a critical way, and follow the principles of evidence-based medicine;
2) Further elaborate the deontological aspects of the medical profession as general ethical issues, and for the specific social context of patients.
Knowledge and skills will be learnt and assessed through laboratories, clinical clerkships, workshops, and the preparation ofthe final examination.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Graduates can interact in international and multicultural settings with other healthcare professionals, colleagues, collaborators, and patients and their families. In the face of such specialised and general audiences, graduates can:
1) Express information related to their professional activity in a simple,clear, and concise form, orally or in writing, and taking into account the cultural level of their audience;
2) Interact respectfully and with intellectual honesty with patients, in order to support them in making their health-related decisions, and with their family members to share the patient's point of view and behaviour.
Knowledge and skills will be learnt and assessed mainly during clinical clerkships, when students are exposed to a number of interactive situations. Skills will also be assessed through laboratories, clinical clerkships, workshops and the preparation of the final examination.
LEARNING SKILLS
Graduates can:
• continue their studies autonomously;
• keep up-to-date in their specific professional branch;
• consult international databases and literature;
• participate in international scientific events, contributing data and exchanging information.
Finally, graduates can practise the medical profession within its normative and ethical boundaries.
Skills learnt during the entire programme are assessed during individual learning activities and by the preparation of the final examination.
