General Information
Name of Degree | Degree in Medicine |
Date of Publication of Degree in Official Gazette | 11 November 2010 |
Academic year in which the Degree is to be introduced | 2010/2011 |
Academic years affected by introduction | First year |
Area of Knowledge | Health Sciences |
Number of ECTS credits | 360 |
Duration of course (years) | Six |
Type of tuition involved | Face-to-face tuition |
Language used for tuition | Spanish |
RULES GOVERNING ASSISTANCE | |
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES COMPARED TO OTHER DEGREES OR PROFESSIONAL COURSES | |
Regulatory profession to which the Degree is oriented | The degree of medical doctor is provided for in Directive 2005/36/CE on the recognition of professional qualifications, and in Spanish Law 44/2003 of 21 November on the Ordering of the Health-related Professions. |
Number of new admission on offer | 120 |
Minimum number of credits for registration | 24 |
Centre and tuition venue | Faculty of Medicine and Nursing |
Rationale
Today’s society demands a level of healthcare in keeping with its expectations. To that end, healthcare systems must fully meet the health requirements of the population. The number of doctors required by Spain’s healthcare system is greater than the European average. Spain currently has 3.8 working doctors per 1000 inhabitants, according to analyses carried out by the OCDE (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Faculties of Medicine therefore have a duty to ensure that this structure is maintained through the training of highly-skilled doctors.
According to current legislation, the profession of doctor is classed as a regulatory profession; those practising as doctors are required to hold the relevant official Degree in Medicine, obtained – where appropriate – in accordance with the provisions of Article 12.9 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, and in fulfilment of the terms established by Cabinet Agreement of 14 December 2007 and published in the State Gazette on 21 December 2007.
Competencies
Generic competencies
- Core Competency 1 (CB1): Fluent oral and written command of the Spanish language.
- Core Competency 2 (CB2): Ability to undertake and engage with the academic and professional project provided by the University.
- Core Competency 3 (CB3): Commitment to ethics and social responsibility both as a citizen and as a healthcare professional
- Core Competency 4 (CB4) : Ability to apply the knowledge acquired and to solve problems in new or unfamiliar settings within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Core Competency 5 (CB5): Ability to combine skills and address the complex challenge of reaching an opinion on the basis of information which – albeit incomplete or limited – includes the consideration of social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of skills and opinions.
- Core Competency 6 (CB6): Ability to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions; to convey conclusions – and the knowledge and reasoning underlying those conclusions – to a specialist and non-specialist public, clearly and unambiguously.
- Core Competency 7 (CB7): Display sufficient learning ability to undertake further study in a largely independent or self-directed manne.
- Generic Competencies of the University
- University competency 1 (CU1): Accredit sufficient command of the English language
- University competency 2 (CU2): Enhance mastery of IT at user level
- University competency 3 (CU3): Encourage an active attitude to job-seeking.
- General instrumental competencies: Tools for learning and training
- Transversal competency 01: Analysis and synthesis
- Transversal competency 02: Organisation and planning
- Transversal competency 03: Basic general skills
- Transversal competency 04: Basic professional skills
- Transversal competency 05: Oral and written communication skills (own language)
- Transversal competency 06: Knowledge of a second language
- Transversal competency 07: Basic familiarity with IT
- Transversal competency 08: Information management
- Transversal competency 09: Problem-solving
- Transversal competency 10: Decision-taking.
- Transversal competency 11: Ability to be critical and self-critical
- Transversal competency 12: Ability to work as part of a team
- Transversal competency 13: Interpersonal skills
- Transversal competency 14: Ability for interdisciplinary work
- Transversal competency 15: Ability to communicate with other areas
- Transversal competency 16: Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism
- Transversal competency 17: Ability to work in an international context
- Transversal competency 18: Ethical commitment.
- Transversal competency 19: Ability to apply knowledge in practice
- Transversal competency 20: Research skills
- Transversal competency 21: Ability to learn (learning to learn)
- Transversal competency 22: Ability to adapt to new situations
- Transversal competency 23: Creativity (ability to come up with new ideas)
- Transversal competency 24: Leadership
- Transversal competency 25: Knowledge of other cultures
- Transversal competency 26: Ability to work independently
- Transversal competency 27: Project design and management
- Transversal competency 28: Initiative and enterprise
- Transversal competency 29: Concern for quality
- Transversal competency 30: Will to succeed.
- Specific Competencies
- Competency 1: Understand cell structure and function, the characteristics of biomolecules, their metabolism, regulation and metabolic integration.
- Competency 2: Understand the basic principles of human nutrition.
- Competency 3: Describe the basic features of cell communication and the behaviour of excitable membranes.
- Competency 4: Understand the cell cycle, and the phenomena of cell differentiation and proliferation.
- Competency 5: Understand the processes involved in gene information, expression and regulation.
- Competency 6: Describe the basic principles of heredity.
- Competency 7: Understand the processes involved in embryo development and organogenesis.
- Competency 8: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the skin.
- Competency 9: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the blood.
- Competency 10: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the circulatory system.
- Competency 11: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the digestive system.
- Competency 12: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the locomotor apparatus.
- Competency 13: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the reproductive system.
- Competency 14: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the excretory system.
- Competency 15: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the respiratory system.
- Competency 16: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the endocrine system.
- Competency 17: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the immune system.
- Competency 18: Understand the morphology, structure and function of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
- Competency 19: Describe the basic principles of homeostasis and adaptation to the environment.
- Competency 20: Learn to handle basic laboratory techniques and material.
- Competency 21: Interpret a normal blood test.
- Competency 22: Recognise the morphology and structure of tissues, organs and systems using gross inspection, microscopy and imaging techniques.
- Competency 23: Carry out function tests.
- Competency 24: Measure and interpret vital signs.
- Competency 25: Carry out a basic physical examination.
- Competency 26: Understand the legal principles underlying professional medical practice.
- Competency 27: Understand the characteristics of informed consent.
- Competency 28: Learn to respect the principle of confidentiality.
- Competency 29: Recognise, diagnose and decide on the management of physical and mental damage.
- Competency 30: Understand the social and legal implications of death.
- Competency 31: Understand and recognise the normal evolution of the cadaver.
- Competency 32: Understand the basic principles of post-mortem diagnosis.
- Competency 33: Learn the basic principles of medical criminology.
- Competency 34: Learn to draft forensic documents.
- Competency 35: Understand the basic principles of medical ethics.
- Competency 36: Learn the principles of bioethics.
- Competency 37: Understand the basic principles in resolving ethical conflicts.
- Competency 38: Apply personal professional values of excellence, altruism, duty, responsibility, Integrity and honesty in medical practice.
- Competency 39: Recognise the need to ensure professional competence.
- Competency 40: Learn how to approach medical practice respecting the patient’s autonomy, beliefs and culture.
- Competency 41: Understand the principles of preventive medicine and public health.
- Competency 42: Apply the methods used in preventive medicine and public health.
- Competency 43:Understand the principle of risk factors and their importance in preventing disease.
- Competency 44: Recognise the factors determining the health of the population.
- Competency 45: Understand the main healthcare indicators.
- Competency 46: Learn to plan, schedule and evaluate health programmes.
- Competency 47: Understand how to take preventive and protective measures against diseases, injuries and accidents.
- Competency 48: Learn to evaluate the quality of medical attendance and define patient safety strategies.
- Competency 49: Design a vaccination schedule.
- Competency 50: Learn the principles of epidemiology and demography.
- Competency 51: Understand healthcare planning and administration at international, European, national and local level.
- Competency 52: Understand the economic and social implications of medical practice, with reference to the criteria of efficacy and efficiency.
- Competency 53: Understand the basic links between health and the environment.
- Competency 54: Understand the basic principles of food safety.
- Competency 55: learn the basic principles of safety in the workplace.
- Competency 56: Understand, critically evaluate and become familiar with the use of technologies and sources of clinical and biomedical information, with a view to obtaining, organising, interpreting and communicating clinical, scientific and healthcare information.
- Competency 57: Understand the basic concepts of biostatistics and their application to the medical sciences.
- Competency 58: Learn to design and implement simple statistical studies using computer programs, and to interpret the results.
- Competency 59: Understand and interpret statistical data in medical literature.
- Competency 60: Understand the history of health and illness.
- Competency 61: Understand the existence and principles of alternative medicines.
- Competency 62: Learn to operate a personal computer without aid.
- Competency 63: Use various systems to search for and retrieve biomedical information.
- Competency 64: Understand and manage clinical documentation procedures.
- Competency 65: Understand and critically interpret scientific texts.
- Competency 66: Understand the principles of the scientific method, biomedical research and clinical trials.
- Competency 67 : Understand the principles of telemedicine.
- Competency 68: Understand and be familiar with the principles of (best) evidence-based medicine.
- Competency 69: Understand the various aspects of dealings with patients, their families and their social background.
- Competency 70: Understand models of clinical dialogue (interviews, verbal and non-verbal communication, and interferences).
- Competency 71: Learn to give bad news, prognoses, and therapeutic advice.
- Competency 72: Draft case histories, reports, instructions and other documents so that they can be understood by patients, their families, and other professionals.
- Competency 73: Present oral and written papers and/or professional reports in public.
- Competency 74: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major skin diseases.
- Competency 75: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major blood disorders.
- Competency 76: Understand the main features of pregnancy, normal and pathological delivery, and puerperium.
- Competency 77: Describe the main sexually-transmitted diseases.
- Competency 78: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major gynaecological disorders.
- Competency 79: Describe contraception and fertilisation processes.
- Competency 80: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major eye disorders.
- Competency 81: Understand tumours, their diagnosis and management.
- Competency 82: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major ear, nose and throat disorders.
- Competency 83: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major cardiocirculatory disorders.
- Competency 84: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major digestive-tract disorders.
- Competency 85: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major nephrourinary disorders.
- Competency 86 Recognise, diagnose and manage the major locomotor disorders.
- Competency 87: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major respiratory-tract disorders.
- Competency 88: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major endocrine-system disorders.
- Competency 89: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major nutritional disorders.
- Competency 90: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major central and peripheral nervous system disorders.
- Competency 91: Understand the main infectious agents and their mechanisms of action.
- Competency 92: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major infectious diseases of the various organs and systems.
- Competency 93: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major immune-system disorders.
- Competency 94: Understand the morphofunctional features of newborns, children and adolescents, and the basic principles of growth.
- Competency 95: Understand the characteristics associated with premature birth.
- Competency 96: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major paediatric disorders.
- Competency 97: Understand the basic principles of child nutrition.
- Competency 98: Learn the basic principles of genetic diagnosis and advice.
- Competency 99: Understand the basic principles of cognitive, emotional and psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence.
- Competency 100: Understand the basic biological, psychological and social principles of personality and behaviour.
- Competency 101: Recognise, diagnose and manage psychiatric disorders.
- Competency 102: Understand the basic principles of psychotherapy.
- Competency 103: Recognise, diagnose and manage the major poisoning-related disorders.
- Competency 104: Understand the principles of palliative medicine.
- Competency 105: Recognise the characteristic features of pathologies prevalent in the elderly.
- Competency 106: Learn the basic principles of family and community medicine in the patients setting, and the promotion of good health in the family and the community.
- Competency 107: Recognise, diagnose and manage life-threatening situations.
- Competency 108: Learn to draft a complete, patient-centred anamnesis, oriented towards various pathologies, interpreting findings.
- Competency 109: Learn to make a complete physical examination of body systems, and a psychopathological examination, and interpret findings.
- Competency 110: Learn to evaluate changes in clinical parameters as a function of ageing.
- Competency 111: Examine a pregnant patient and monitor the pregnancy.
- Competency 112: Establish a plan of action, focussed on patient needs and the family and social setting, consistent with the patient’s signs and symptoms.
- Competency 113: Learn basic and advanced life-support manoeuvres.
- Competency 114: Evaluate the risk/benefit ratio of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
- Competency 115: Understand the indications of a range of tests: biochemical, blood, immunological, microbiological, histological and imaging.
- Competency 116: Understand tissue characteristics in different situations involving injury, adaptation, cell death, and inflammation.
- Competency 117: Understand changes in cell growth patterns.
- Competency 118: Understand the basic principles of histological examination of the various body systems.
- Competency 119: Describe biochemical, cytogenetic and molecular biological markers applied to clinical diagnosis.
- Competency 120: Understand the basic principles of microbiology and parasitology.
- Competency 121: Understand the main techniques used in microbiological and parasitological diagnosis, and interpret findings.
- Competency 122: Understand the basic principles of the effects of radiation on the human body.
- Competency 124: Learn the basic principles of radiological semiology for the various body systems.
- Competency 125: Understand other diagnostic imaging techniques.
- Competency 126: Evaluate the indications and contraindications of radiological examination.
- Competency 127: Learn to apply radiation protection criteria in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures using ionising radiation.
- Competency 128: Understand the main groups of drugs, dose-rates, administration routes and pharmacokinetics, interactions and adverse effects, prescriptions and pharmacovigilance.
- Competency 129: Learn the basic principles of pharmacology as applied to the various body systems.
- Competency 130: Describe the main analgesic, antineoplastic, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory drugs.
- Competency 131: Understand the general principles of anaesthesia and recovery.
- Competency 132: the general principles of nutrition and diet therapy.
- Competency 133 : Understand the main indications for electrophysiological techniques (ECG, EEG, EMG, and others).
- Competency 134 : Understand the physiopathology of wounds (including burns, freezing and other kinds of wound).
- Competency 135: Understand the principles of scarring.
- Competency 136: Understand the principles of surgical bleeding and thromboembolic prophylaxis.
- Competency 137: Understand general indications for surgery, preoperative risk and post-operative complications.
- Competency 138: Learn the principles of and indications for transfusions and transplants.
- Competency 139: Understand the principles of, and indications for, radiotherapy.
- Competency 140: Understand the principles of physiotherapy, the promotion of personal independence, and functional adaptation to/of the environment, and other physical procedures in illness, as a means of enhancing quality of life.
- Competency 141: Learn how to obtain and process a biological specimen for examination using different diagnostic procedures.
- Competency 142: Learn how to interpret the results of laboratory diagnostic tests.
- Competency 143: Learn to carry out disinfection and sterilisation techniques.
- Competency 144: Learn to interpret a X-ray through systematic reading.
- Competency 145: Learn how to use a range of drugs appropriately.
- Competency 146: Learn how to carry out and interpret electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms.
- Competency 147: Write correct prescriptions, reflecting the situation of each patient as well as legal requirements.
- Competency 148: Evaluate nutritional status and design diets appropriate to different circumstances.
- Competency 149: Carry out simple surgical procedures: cleansing, haemostasis and suturing.
- Competency 150: Use professional judgement, face-to-face communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical opinion in clinical practice (Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry and other clinical fields)
- Competency 151: Learn to deal with the major health problems in different areas of medical practice (Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry and other clinical fields)
- Competency 152: Complete a degree dissertation as a transversal subject involving a range of medical disciplines