Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Practicum
Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish,
Teaching staff
Through the email: coordinacion.muues@uic.es
Introduction
The practices are following the provisions of Royal Decree 1707/2011, of November 18, which regulates the external academic practices of university students, as well as the provisions of the Internal Regulation that regulates practices in companies and institutions approved by the Executive Committee of the Governing Board of the International University of Catalonia (UIC) on 14.10.2013.
Pre-course requirements
There are no prerequisites for taking this subject
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CB8 - Students should be able to integrate their knowledge so that they can deal with the complexity involved in making judgements based on information that may be incomplete or limited, and may therefore require considerations of the social and ethical responsibilities involved in applying knowledge or judgement.
- CE03 - When a patient has an intense or worsening condition, students should know how to identify and assess clinical indications of a risk to their life or a serious danger to their functions, establishing priorities for their treatment.
- CE05 - To use a patient's medical history and physical examination to identify the signs and symptoms of the most common serious conditions and serious complications to chronic conditions, correctly interpreting the information.
- CE06 - To demonstrate their knowledge and flexible and decisive handling of protocols and guidelines for clinical practice when dealing with the most serious or common conditions in urgent and emergency care.
- CE07 - To carry out a continuous re-evaluation of the patient in urgent and emergency care in order to readjust the provisional diagnosis and consequent change to the treatment plan when necessary.
- CE09 - To recognise the risks associated with operation procedures and the diagnostic techniques and treatments employed in emergencies, and to carry them out as safely as possible in terms of the safety of the student, other professionals and the patient.
- CG6 - To apply current healthcare legislation related to both pre-hospital and hospital care.
- CT01 - To respect the ethical standards and laws that govern healthcare and the relationship with the patient in urgent and emergency care, as well as the ability to provide information on basic aspects of the same when required.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Knows and manages specific skills to communicate with patients and families in case of urgent or emergent pathology.
- Knows and appropriately uses the individual safety equipment (PPE) and the action procedures for accident prevention concerning himself and the rest of his team members.
- Knows the organizational and operational models of the relationship between medical, nursing, and emergency technicians in out-of-hospital emergency medical services.
- Knows how to take steps to activate emergency health resources.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in an emergency: respiratory arrest and cardiorespiratory arrest.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in an emergency: severe trauma patient.
- Knows how to properly handle immobilization devices for the transfer of severe trauma patients.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in cardiac, vascular, respiratory, neurological emergencies.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in gynecological and obstetric emergencies, including attendance at eutocic delivery.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in a pediatric emergency.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in trauma emergencies.
- Comprehensively manages the patient in analgesia, sedation, and relaxation procedures in emergencies and emergencies.
- Knows how to perform: compression and functional bandages, plaster splints.
- Able to perform, indicate, or refer appropriately: wound healing and suturing, bite treatment, burn treatment.
Syllabus
This subject supposes the approach to the integral application, in real circumstances, of the knowledge and skills acquired, under the supervision of an internship tutor, through the rotation by the following health services, both out-of-hospital and in-hospital:
● Out-of-hospital: Mobile units and coordinating center of a Medical Emergency Service (SEM): 75 hours (3 ECTS).
● Hospital:
- Cardiology Service: 25 hours (1 ECTS)
- Neurology Service: 25 hours (1 ECTS)
- Pediatric Service: 25 hours (1 ECTS)
- Obstetrics Service: 25 hours (1 ECTS)
- Traumatology Service: 25 hours (1 ECTS)
The student must prepare and deliver a final practice report that must contain at least the following information:
- Personal data of the student.
- Centers and services that have been rotated.
- Concrete and detailed description of the tasks carried out in each service throughout the time of the rotation.
- Evaluation of the tasks carried out with the knowledge and skills acquired.
- List of the problems raised and the procedures followed to solve them.
- Identification of the contributions that the practices have made in terms of learning.
- Evaluation of practices and proposals for improvement.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
Totally face-to-face modality through rotation in health services.
The teaching methodology of the Practicum combines:
- Problem-based learning
- Practical learning by performance,
- Practical learning by model observation.
Rotations in the Practicum develop following an individual program in a network of health centers specifically selected for their care and research activity and their potential for the training of professionals.
This individual program is communicated to the student at the beginning of the academic year, and changes can be made at the student's request under certain conditions and requirements.
In each practical rotation, the student is tutored by a Practical Tutor, who will be an adequately qualified healthcare professional for clinical practice and for teaching, who will be in charge of guiding the student in their practical learning.
The Practice Coordinator will carry out individualized and continuous monitoring of the student during the development of the practices. As long as the pandemic circumstances derived from COVID advise limiting personal contact, the Internship Coordinator will maintain continuous contact with the internship centers and tutors, as well as with the students by telematic means and through online meetings via Meet; to guarantee learning and student satisfaction during the practical experience, in addition to consulting doubts and / or resolving conflicts.
Daily attendance at practices is mandatory. If for justified reasons it is not possible to attend the practices one day, the student must notify the Internship Coordinator, who will evaluate if the absence is justified and if so, if applicable and it is possible to reschedule.
Similarly, if for reasons derived from the COVID 19 pandemic it is necessary to suspend or interrupt any rotation, the Internship Coordinator will reschedule said rotation to the affected students whenever possible.
In any case, a maximum of 10% absences will be tolerated in the rotations of the Practicum.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Telematic evaluation modality
In general terms, the practices will be evaluated taking into account the individual activity of the student, the evaluation on the job by the tutors / professionals, as well as the preparation by the student of the Practice Report.
During the practices, the student must prepare the Practice Report that will be delivered the day they finish. The delivery will be telematic through the virtual classroom.
The student must prepare and deliver a Practice Report that must contain 2 clinical cases seen during the Practicum and that would have aroused special interest, developing aspects such as:
- Presentation of the clinical case
- List of the procedures carried out for its approach and resolution
- Evaluation of the tasks carried out with the knowledge and skills acquired
- Identification of the contributions that in terms of learning have meant for the student
- Aspects for improvement
On the other hand, each student's internship tutor will carry out the evaluation of the students tutored by him (by means of a telematic system except in the case of rotation in the SEM Medical Emergency Service, in which case it will be carried out in paper format at the request of the own service) according to evaluative criteria adapted to each specific rotation, aligned with the objectives and learning criteria established in the academic report for the Practicum.
The final mark of the Practicum will be determined by:
- 60%: Average mark of all the evaluations carried out by the Practice Tutors in each of the rotations.
- 30%: Average mark of the Practice Report of the Practicum.
- 10%: Assistance and individual effort.
Bibliography and resources
They will be found in the Moodle Virtual Platform, including specific instructions for each rotation regarding calendar, schedules, location, instructions, uniformity, contact person, etc.