In person

Fully face-to-face mode in the classroom

Class attendance: attendance is compulsory and the student must have attended at least 88% of the classes. Therefore, the student can only have 2 UNEXCUSED absences during the whole course. From the 3rd absence onwards, each one will subtract 0.5 points from the continuous assessment. The group of repeaters will be allowed to miss 1 class in the whole course. The penalty will be the same as for the rest of the groups.

Each student will have to attend the classes in the group they have been assigned to and no changes of groups will be allowed. There will be no possibility of making up a missed class. Only if there is a justified cause will the student have to contact the teacher to report the situation and to look for alternatives, but he/she will never be able to make up the class. Only the following will be accepted as a justified cause: hospitalisation of the student or death of a first-degree relative.

Class attendance rules:

- Students must come to class in white coats, hair tied back, no watches, no jewellery on hands or wrists, short nails and comfortable shoes. In case of non-compliance with the rules, the teacher may expel the student from class and it will count as an unexcused absence.

- If the student arrives late (after 10:20h), the teacher may decide not to let the student in and this will count as an unexcused absence.

The evaluation of the course consists of two parts:

The continuous assessment is worth 40% and the final exam 60%.

Continuous assessment (40%): Consists of different activities that will be carried out throughout the course, intermediate assessment tests and class attendance.

• Pre-class and post-class exercises (5%).
• Delivery of patient evolution graph (10%).
• Intermediate tests: mini ECOE 1st semester (10%), mini ECOE 2nd semester (15%), mini ECOE 2nd semester (15%).

Final exam (60%): Final exam in ECOE format where the student has to demonstrate that he/she has acquired the competences (skills, knowledge and attitudes) worked on throughout the course. Different real situations are posed for the student to solve individually in a healthcare context. In this test, there will be different criteria that the student will have to fulfil in order to pass it, above all related to patient safety and results of the subject.

• Conditioning factors: Aspects of the procedures that are key concepts of the subject and that are related to patient safety and/or that affect patient morbidity. Predefined criteria must be met in order to pass the exam in a defined minimum number of exam scenarios (e.g. performing procedures in a sterile manner, dose calculation, ECG interpretation and medication administration ).
• Critical items: items that may affect the morbimortality of patients or that are very important concepts of the subject, but with less relevance than the conditioning factors. The student must pass 70% of the items categorised in this category.
• Mild items: items that affect patient safety but do not affect patient morbidity and mortality. The student must pass 65% of the items categorised in this category.

This test must be passed with a 5 to be able to average the rest of the items. If the continuous assessment is failed, it can only be recovered by means of the final exam. If any of the partial exams of the semester have not been taken, it can only be recovered through the final exam and a 7 must be obtained in the final exam in order to pass the subject.

If a student talks to another student while taking the ECOE, catches them copying in any exam or with their mobile phone / digital devices on them, they will be expelled from the exam and will have failed the whole exam.

The exam revision will take place on a day set by the teacher and there will only be one exam in the morning and one in the afternoon in the case of practice. The day will be communicated by the teacher in advance and students must request by email to attend. Failure to attend will result in the student's right to revision being forfeited.

If the student does not attend the final test, even for a justified reason, he/she will not be able to repeat the test because of the complexity of the assembly and to preserve the criterion of fairness with the rest of the students.

For the 2nd, 4th and 6th convocation:

In case the student only has to make up a part of the exam, the grade he/she will have if he/she passes this part of the exam will be the grade of the first exam. You will still have to pass all failed stations.
In case you fail the exam and have to make up a part of it, if you want to opt for another mark, you will have to make up the whole exam, making the previous request by e-mail at the established date. Applications after the established date will not be accepted.
In the case of having failed the continuous assessment, it can only be recovered through the final.
If you have missed any of the mid-term exams during the semester, you will only be able to make it up through the final exam and the maximum score of the module can be a 5 out of 10.
Before re-enrolling in the subject, you will have to check the compatibility with the rest of the subjects.

Honours will not be awarded in the 2nd call.

The same criteria will be applied for the following calls, if they are granted. That is to say, the 3rd and 5th will be like the 1st and the 4th and 6th will be like the 2nd.

Honor Matrix Assignment Procedure (MH)

1. The criterion for assigning Honorary Enrolments (MH) is based on the Excellent (9.0).
2. The assignment is solely for the teacher and does not have to give it, even if the student has obtained a mark above 9.0.
3. In case the teacher decides to award MH, he will not take into account the numerical mark and the highest, but will evaluate other factors. The HM might not match the highest numeric score.

Procedure for Non-presented Assignment (NP)

1. To register an NP in the student's file, it must not have been submitted to any of the evaluation tests throughout the assignment.
2. If a student has submitted to one of the evaluation tests, the corresponding percentages in the teaching guide will be applied, with a 0 in those not presented.