Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Supervised Clinical Practicums
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
Teaching staff
Introduction
MCP aims to give the student the possibility and ability to come into contact with the user (patient) of the specialized service, and also the possibility of learning about the professional health system, its organizational structure and the real role that they will play in it as a manual physiotherapists. They also provide the student with professional contact and the application of the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during the training period of the university master's degree. These practices will provide the clinical application of the most relevant factors to consider as an orthopedic manual physiotherapist.
Pre-course requirements
No prerequisites are specified.
Objectives
- Use efficient and effective interview strategies to obtain reliable and valid patient data throughout the entire patient assessment and treatment process.
- Know the procedures that provide detailed information on the movements related to disorders that are amenable to intervention with OMPT.
- Effectively correlate the findings of the patient's history and examination, make a provisional physiotherapy diagnosis, and design a trial treatment.
- Develop abilities and skills in the evaluation of the patient's key symptoms and signs.
- Develop abilities and skills in accurately predicting expected changes and progressing towards realistic results.
- Conduct effective interpersonal communication to inform the patient of the risks, prognosis, potential side effects, and likely benefits of the OMPT intervention.
- Apply collaborative clinical reasoning with the patient, caregivers and other health professionals when defining treatment goals, interventions and measurable results.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CP03 - To effectively communicate their conclusions regarding clinical knowledge and reasoning to both specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
- CP04 - To communicate effectively in interpersonal relationships in order to conduct a medical history assessment, evaluate and treat musculoskeletal dysfunctions, with the aim of improving the patient's/user's health and fostering collaboration within the multidisciplinary team.
- CP05 - Apply the most appropriate treatment, taking into account the indications, contraindications, precautions, and effects of Orthopedic Manual Therapy within the framework of managing and/or addressing pain mechanisms and dysfunctions of the musculoskeletal system.
- CP06 - To work within a clinical practice of orthopedic manual physiotherapy that specifically integrates scientific evidence, clinical data, biopsychosocial factors, and risk-effectiveness and prognosis parameters into the therapeutic intervention.
- CP07 - To provide specialized manual orthopedic physiotherapy treatment to any patient with neuromuscular-skeletal dysfunction, while respecting the fundamental rights of equality between men and women, promoting human rights, and upholding the values of a culture of peace and democratic principles, including the use of inclusive, non-discriminatory, and non-stereotypical language.
- HB01 - To develop a critical and analytical clinical practice with a sufficient level of autonomy, demonstrating that advanced knowledge of the specialty area of Orthopedic Manual Therapy has been acquired, based on current scientific evidence.
- HB02 - Apply specific assessment and treatment procedures for musculoskeletal and neuromuscular dysfunctions, establishing a diagnosis of Orthopedic Manual Therapy based on the findings.
- HB03 - Use procedures that ensure confidentiality in the handling and processing of patient/user documentation, complying with ethical, legal, and technical requirements, in accordance with current healthcare regulations.
- HB04 - To solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- MAT06 - 01. Use efficient and effective questioning strategies to obtain reliable and valid patient data throughout the entire patient evaluation and treatment process.
- MAT06 - 02. Identify procedures to obtain detailed information on movements related to disorders that are susceptible to intervention with OMPT.
- MAT06 - 04. Evaluate the patient's key symptoms and signs, demonstrating skills and abilities in the process.
- MAT06 - 03. Effectively identify findings from the patient's history and examination, for a provisional physiotherapy diagnosis and trial treatment.
- MAT06 - 05. Demonstrate skills and abilities in accurately predicting expected changes and progressing toward realistic results.
- MAT06 - 06. Effectively communicate the risks, prognosis, possible side effects and probable benefits of the OMPT intervention to the patient.
- MAT06 - 07. Define treatment objectives, interventions, and measurable outcomes, applying clinical and collaborative reasoning with the patient, family members and/or caregivers, and other healthcare professionals.
Syllabus
It is an integrating subject, in which the student must fully activate all their technical-professional and scientific resources acquired so far in their training process.
Students will perform professional practices in which the evaluation and treatment of patients are included.
This dynamic will be facilitated and supervised by physiotherapists trained in OMPT, who will control that the students carry out in a progressive and responsible manner, and from least to greatest difficulty, with autonomy, the different activities of the clinical field in different pathologies and patients: observe clinically, inquire , obtain information in a real environment, carry out a manual and instrumental exploratory assessment, interpret the results of the examination, prepare clinical documents, analyze and systematize the information obtained, reason clinically, order and prioritize significant findings, recognize and integrate information and documentation clinical and prescription of other health professionals, recognize functional priorities and prescriptions of professional clinical specialists, recognize and assume limitations of physiotherapeutic procedures and methods, recognize and assume treatment programs, propose specific protocols, apply treatments. Therefore, recognize and use guidelines, programs and rules of clinical practice, propose educational and preventive measures, as well as recognize and identify the undesirable effects of therapy.
At the end of the subject, students must present and debate a clinical case in the context of the clinical sessions.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
- MCP (Mentores Clinical Practice): Clinical practices are carried out using real patients in the classroom, and allow the incorporation of professional values, care communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgment, integrating all the knowledge, skills and attitudes of OMPT into professional practice. The master's professors facilitate and supervise the teaching-learning process, in this case transferred to the clinical field.
- SLA (Self-learning activities): These activities are designed so that the student solves problems on their own with the help of the material provided and the information from the face-to-face activities and/or available in the virtual environment in which the online subjects are developed.
- SIS (Student Independent Study): It is a process aimed at the formation of an autonomous student capable of learning to learn; It consists of developing study skills, establishing educational goals and objectives based on the recognition of the weaknesses and strengths of the individual, which will respond to the needs and expectations of each one. It implies the possibility that each student makes their own decisions in relation to the organization of their time and their learning pace, which is why it requires a high degree of responsibility to make the most of resources. Includes study of contents related to "theoretical classes" and "practices" (studying exams, carrying out individual and group theoretical work, library work, complementary reading, etc.).
- CL (Cooperative learning): Development of active and significant learning cooperatively.
- CS (Case studies): Acquisition of learning through the analysis of clinical cases or those of the profession, real or simulated.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
- Clinical evaluation: 70%
- Narrative report: 30%
The grading system will be used in accordance with current legislation.
Actually, according to RD 1.125/2003 del 5 de septiembre.
- 0-4,9 Fail.
- 5,0-6,9 Pass.
- 7,0-8,9 Notable.
- 9,0-10 Outstanding.
The Honor Roll mention may be awarded to students who have obtained a grade equal to or greater than 9.0. Their number may not exceed 5% of the students enrolled in a subject in the corresponding academic year, unless the number of students enrolled is less than 20, in which case a single Honors may be awarded.