Course outline

Acquired skills

These are the main competences for which this degree will qualify you:

• To accept their role in prevention and protection against diseases, injuries or accidents and the preservation and promotion of health, at both individual and community level.
• To acquire suitable clinical experience in hospitals, health centres or other health institutions, under supervision, as well as basic knowledge on patient-focused clinical management and the proper use of tests, medication and other resources in the healthcare system.
• To acquire the basic training required for conducting research.
• To determine a diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, applying principles based on the best possible information and under conditions of clinical safety.
• To express oneself effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, to patients, their families, the media and other professionals.
• To gather and use epidemiological data and evaluate trends and risks for decision-making in health matters.
• To listen carefully, gather and summarise pertinent information on the problems a patient faces and understand what the information means.
• To perform a physical examination and mental assessment.
• To recognise the key aspects of the medical profession, including ethical principles, legal responsibilities and patient-centred professional duties.
• To understand and recognise the causal agents and risk factors behind health states and the development of illness.
• To understand and recognise the effects of growth, development and ageing on an individual and their social environment.
• To understand and recognise the effects, mechanisms and symptoms of illness on the human body's structure and workings.
• To understand and recognise the structure and normal workings of the human body, at a molecular, cellular, tissular, organic and systems level, during the different stages in life and in both sexes.
• To understand the fundaments of action, indications and efficacy of therapeutic interventions, basing themselves on the scientific evidence available .