Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Clinical Training 8
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
Teaching staff
Introduction
Clinical work placements aim to give students the opportunity and ability to be in contact with the healthcare service user (patient), and also the chance to get to know the professional healthcare system from inside, its organisational structure and the real role that they will play as physiotherapists.
These placements also provide students with professional experience and the chance to implement the theoretical and practical knowledge they have acquired in their classes. These clinical work placements will gradually shape the profile of the future professional physiotherapist.
Pre-course requirements
No prerequisites are required.
Objectives
Two types of objectives will be set out: General objectives common to any work placement, and specific objectives, fulfilled and expanded upon depending on the characteristics of the centre.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- To acquire knowledge of the different areas of physiotherapeutic intervention within the healthcare field (promotion, prevention, rehabilitation, etc.) and therapeutic procedures that can be prescribed.
- To understand how to optimise resources at their disposal in order to be able, in the future, to adapt to the possibilities of the working environment.
- To understand the role of a physiotherapist as a member of a multidisciplinary team and acquire a working methodology.
- To develop the necessary social skills to establish optimal relationships between professionals, patients and family members.
- To contribute to and promote a respectful working environment within a legal and official framework, respecting the profession and its code of ethics. (See Code of Ethics, in the Contents section - "Courses" in Spanish).
- To analyse professional scenarios and how they adapt to the current scientific and socio-occupational context.
- To discuss treatments and review the theoretical and practical concepts studied with a supervisor.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- To understand how to use information systems that concern healthcare users (extracting medical history data and evaluating a physiotherapy functional assessment sheet) and compare this data to the work required from a physiotherapist.
- To understand the composition and distribution of tasks in the assigned Physiotherapy service, depending on its characteristics.
- To understand the code of ethics and the attitude one should adopt towards patients, family members and medical staff. (See Code of Ethics, Contents)
- To understand how to detect extraordinary situations that may arise and be able to provide a correct and effective response.
- To develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for therapeutic methods of observation, assessment and therapeutic intervention.
- To employ manual and instrumental treatment techniques with skill and judgement.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 - The ability to analysis and synthesis.
- 05 - The ability to manage information.
- 06 - To have comprehensive problem-solving skills.
- 10 - Develop autonomous learning skills.
- 11 - The ability to adapt to new situations.
- 12 - To be creative
- 15 - Demonstrate a concern for quality.
- 28.1 - Capacity for oral and written communication in the native language.
- 28.2 - Demonstrate Interpersonal skills.
- 30.1 - Teamwork skills.
- 37.2 - commitment to ethical conduct
- 37.3 - appreciation and respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- 38 - Ability to incorporate ethical and legal principles into the professional culture.
- 47 - Ability to assess the patient's/client's functional status, taking into account his/her physical, psychological and social aspects.
- 48 - Ability to establish a physiotherapeutic diagnosis according to international norms and using internationally validated assessment tools.
- 52 - Ability to provide effective physiotherapeutic care by providing comprehensive assistence to patients/clients.
- 54 - Ability to interact effectively in a multidisciplinary team.
- 56 - Capacity for self-assessment of knowledge, skills and attitude.
- 59 - Ability to apply quality assurance mechanisms to physiotherapy practice by adhering to criteria, indicators and quality standards recognized and validated for good professional practice.
- 60 - Capacity for stress management, which involves self control and environment stress management during tense situations.
- 61 - Ability to motivate others, through the capacity to generate a desire and enthusiasm for active participation in any kind of project or task.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The student will be able to:
- Examine and assess a patient’s functional status, considering their physical, psychological and social well-being.
- Determine a Physiotherapy diagnosis in accordance with international validation regulations and instruments.
- Prepare and complete the Clinical History of Physiotherapy.
- Incorporate the ethical and legal principles of the profession in their professional culture
- Understand the planning, management and control activities of Physical Therapy services.
- Design an intervention plan specifically for Physiotherapy, solve problems and demonstrate critical reasoning.
- Individually implement, direct and coordinate a Physiotherapy intervention plan using therapeutic physiotherapy tools.
- Evaluate the evolution of the results of physiotherapeutic treatment in relation to the objectives set and the results criteria.
- Write up a physiotherapy discharge report.
- Develop an effective relationship with the multidisciplinary team.
- Apply quality assurance mechanisms to the Physiotherapy practice.
- Encourage patients to be involved in their treatment.
- Effectively provide physiotherapeutic care and comprehensive care to patients
- Cope with stress, has the capacity to self-control and control stressful situations.
- Incorporate scientific research and practice based on scientific evidence.
- Develop teaching skills as a part of the professional practice.
Syllabus
The content will depend on the type of centre to which students are assigned.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
The Clinical Work Placements (EC) of the UIC Barcelona Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy are considered mandatory subjects that form part of the Supervised Clinical Work Placements module, with an academic value of 40 ECTS credits (1,000 hours).
These 40 ECTS, are divided into eight programmes each worth 5 ECTS. The first, second and third placements will be carried out during the third year, and from the fourth to eighth placements will take place in the fourth year of the Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy.
Clinical Work Placement Regulations:
- Attendance is mandatory during Clinical Work Placements. Only one absence is allowed. If students have more than one unjustified absence, according to the Clinical Work Placement criteria, they will have to repeat the entire placement.
- Punctuality is essential, and students must respect the timetables set by the work placement centre.
- Students must be strict with their personal hygiene, tie back long hair, cut fingernails short and not wear nail varnish, jewellery or similar objects such as piercings.
- It is mandatory to wear the UIC Barcelona uniform and use white hospital shoes (as required by the centre).
- Students must take their personal identification card that accredits them as UIC Barcelona students. (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya student card).
Regarding the centre’s staff and users:
Ø Students must exercise professional confidentiality at all times regarding a patient’s personal information and the inner workings of any facility visited.
Ø Comments on the state, evolution, etc. of the patient will be made in private with the corresponding physical therapist and never in front of the patient.
Ø Existing regulations or procedures established in each centre must be respected.
Student will respect the confidentiality of personal data as currently stated in the regulations and according to Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights (LOPD-GDD), («BOE» no. 294, of 6 December 2018, pp. 119,788 to 119,857).
| TRAINING ACTIVITY | METHODOLOGY | COMPETENCES | ECTS CREDITS |
| external work placements | problem-based learning | 01 05 06 10 11 12 15 28.1 28.2 30.1 37.2 37.3 38 47 48 52 54 56 59 60 61 | 12 |
| tutorials | project-based learning | 01 05 06 28.1 28.2 37.2 47 48 52 54 | 0.2 |
| independent study | learning contract | 01 05 06 28.1 37.2 47 48 52 54 | 2.8 |
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Assessment will take into account the mark obtained in all modules; it will be necessary to achieve at least a 5 in each block. Otherwise, students will have to re-sit their exam in July in order to pass those modules in which students scored less than 5:
- Module 1: Objective and Structured Assessment Competencies (ECOE). It consists in overcoming the student's competence assessment by performing an ECOE on the days established at the end of the work placement period (50% of the final mark).
- Block 2: Assessment and evaluation by the physiotherapist assigned to the centre. This evaluation will also take into account daily attendance, as explained in the overall work placement regulations (50% of the final mark).
For information on how to complete assignments, students may request a tutorial with an assigned tutor through the corresponding centre during the course of their work placements.
The marking scheme is set in accordance with current regulations. Currently, according to Royal Decree 1125/2003 of 5 September.
0 to 4.9: Fail/F (Suspenso in Spanish)
5.0 to 6.9: Pass/C (Aprobado in Spanish).
7.0 to 8.9: B (Notable in Spanish)
9.0 to 10: A (Sobresaliente in Spanish)
An "Honourable" mark may be granted to students whose mark is equal to or higher than 9.0. Their mark may not exceed that of 5% of the students who are enrolled in a subject in the corresponding academic year, unless the number of students is less than 20, in which case it may be granted only to one student.
Bibliography and resources
- MEDINA BERUBEN, ISAAC. Propedeútica de la clínica y diagnóstico físico. Ed. Manual Moderno,1st edition. Year 1999. Mexico.
- HSU STEPHEN I., LEE BURTON, W. STASIOR, DAVIDS. Medicina basada en la Evidencia (Massachusets General Hospital), Editorial: Libreria Editorial Marbau. 1st edition. 1999, Madrid.
- VIEL, ERIC. Diagnóstico Fisioterápico: Concepción, Realización y Aplicación en la Práctica Libre y Hospitalaria. Editorial Masson-Salvat. 1st edition. Year 1999. Barcelona.
- GEDDA MICHEL. Décision Kinésithérapique. Ed. Masson. Paris 2001.