Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Introduction to Medical Practice (IMM1)
Teaching staff
An appointment by e-mail
Dr. Oscar Garcia ogarcia@uic.es
Dr. Luis Hernaiz l.hernaiz@uic.es
Introduction
The medical career is usually organized in a preclinical stage, aimed at establishing the conceptual foundations of different physiopathological aspects before entering the clinical stage.
"Immersion into the world of medicine" is a subject designed with the objective of creating a continuous educational experience of the clinical vision, making visible the core to which all efforts are directed, such as patient care, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
The subject will be divided into two educational modules:
A) Module: Immediate healthcare assistance in emergencies
This module aims to enable students to develop skills in recognizing and managing critical situations that require an immediate healthcare response and that they may encounter in any daily life situation.
B) Module: Approach to the healthcare system
This module aims to help students understand the conceptual foundations of the healthcare system, its organizational structure, and its objectives towards citizens in terms of health.
Pre-course requirements
Not applicable
Objectives
Module. Immediate health care in emergency
The main objective of this module is that students know how to act in a medical emergency or accident (Protect, Alert, assist) and are able to perform basic CPR when the situation warrants it.
Module. Approach to health care
This module is designed with the objective that the student does not lose focus and has a perspective of where it goes.
Learn about the operation of health care in our country, make contact with the different areas where medicine is developed to have a reference point during the course of their studies and know where they are going.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 - Recognise the essential elements of the medical profession, including ethical principles, legal responsibilities and patient-centered professional skills.
- 02 - Understand the importance of central principles, in particular of professional confidentiality for the benefit of patients, society and the profession.
- 03 - Know how to apply the principle of social justice to professional practice and understand the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
- 04 - Develop professional practice with respect for patient autonomy, beliefs and culture.
- 06 - Develop professional practice with other health professionals, acquiring teamwork skills.
- 09 - Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of disease on the structure and function of the human body.
- 16 - Recognize and deal with situations that put life in immediate danger and those that require immediate attention.
- 19 - Propose preventive measures appropriate to each clinical situation.
- 23 - Communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing with patients, family members, media and other professionals.
- 29 - Understand national and international health organisations, and the environments and conditions of the different health care systems.
- 30 - To acquire basic knowledge of the National Healthcare System and general healthcare legislation.
- 31 - Understand, critically evaluate and know how to use sources of clinical and biomedical information to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific and health care information.
- 32 - Know how to use information and communication technology in clinical, therapeutic, preventive health care and research.
- 36 - Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically evaluate information for problem solving using the scientific method.
- CTS-3 - To promote and ensure respect for human rights and the principles of universal accessibility, equality, non-discrimination as well as the values of democracy and a culture of peace.
Learning outcomes of the subject
After completing the course the student should be able to:
- Recognize and know treat situations that put life on immediate dangerous and those who require immediate attention.
- Make decisions together with other students in relation with immediate health care in cases proposed in class or simulated situations of urgency and/or emergency.
- Recognize the grade of a burn and know how to assess the extension of the burn.
- Determine vital parameters and interpret them in simulators and classmates.
- Explain in writing the usefulness of the technique results in taking vital signs when are obtained from cases studies and real or simulated patients.
- Know the theoretical foundations in basic cardiopulmonary reanimation techniques that are being used in a cardiorespiratory arrest.
- Argue in a writing the steps of the basic CPR protocol.
- Know how to realize shunting of basic vital support in simulators.
- Practice basic cleaning procedures in wounds and hemostasis in simulators.
- Describe the country’s health system.
- Write and argue about the differences between public and private provision.
Syllabus
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Module. Immediate health care in emergency · Intoxication concept. · Types. · Assessment and immediate action. Module. Approach to health care
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Teaching and learning activities
In person
The methodologies used for the development and acquisition of competencies are:
· MASTER CLASSES.
· CASE METHOD.
Module. Immediate health care in emergency
· PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL).
Module. Immediate healthcare patient with acute chest pain: "MicroSim" (simulation software).
· SIMULATION LABORATORY PRACTICE.
It will include the following situations:
Practice 1. Taking constant
Practice 2. Assessment and immediate reaction (action) to trauma
Practice 3. Basic CPR for adult.
The simulation laboratory practices are compulsory attendance
·REFLECTIÓN - BASED LEARNING
Module. Health care system
Reading of informative documents on various areas of assistance and realization of reflective portfolio
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
To pass the course the student must obtain an average grade greater than 5 and a minimum score of 5 in each of the two modules.
- Module. Immediate health care in emergency: 75%
- Module. Approach to health care: 25%
The instruments that were used to assess the acquisition of skills are:
- Tab-visits to health centers.
- Clinical Assessment Manikin on the protocol for action in a cardiac arrest.
- Conclusion and class presentation of clinical cases.
- Multiple-choice test
- Portfolio
Students who fail the course in the ordinary call will have an extraordinary announcement in July that will consist of a multiple choice theory test and the realization of the activities related to module approach to health care. Students who have passed either party will be retained to note the extraordinary announcement.
Bibliography and resources
RCP. Guía del Consejo Europeo de Resucitación 2021.
Spain: Country Health Profile 2021. European Observatory health and Policies. 2021
PHTLS. Soporte vital básico y avanzado en el trauma prehospitalario. Elsevier Mosby. Septima edición. 2012
André Gastón, J.A., Arriazu López, Mª.I.Manual Básico de Atención sanitaria Inmediata. Morales i Torres editores.2003.
Perales, N; Lesmes, A; Tormo, C.resucitación cardiopulmonar básica y desfibrilación semiautomática. ELSEVIER-MASSON. 5 ª edición. 2006
Evaluation period
- E1 20/01/2025 I3 10:00h
- E1 20/01/2025 I1 10:00h
- E1 20/01/2025 I2 10:00h
- R1 31/01/2025 A21 09:00h