Organization of clinical exercise programs and ethical issues
| Keywords |
| Classification |
Keyword |
| OFICIAL |
Sports Sciences |
Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S 
Cycles of Study/Courses
| Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
| 2CAFES |
29 |
Official Plan |
1 |
- |
3 |
20 |
81 |
Teaching Staff - Responsibilities
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The aims of the curricular unit are:
1. Establish the meaning and usefulness of clinical exercise in the context of chronic diseases; 2) Contextualize the area of activity of the physical exercise professional within multidisciplinary teams; 3) Acquire and understand the concepts related to ethics, deontology and professional quality; 4) Demonstrate the need to carry out an evidence-based practice; Understand the structure and functioning of a clinical exercise program, mastering the algorithms and procedures related to clinical evaluation and interpretation of results, exercise prescription, as well as methodologies related to behavior modification, assessment of motivation and readiness to behavioral change and elimination of barriers to the exercise and management of expectations.
Learning outcomes and competences
At the end of the CU, students should:
- Understand the relationship between physical (in)activity, physical exercise, health,prevention and treatment of chronic diseases,
- Frame their area of expertise in a multidisciplinary context;
- Understand the assumptions related to the grading of scientific evidence and its importance to guide safe and effective interventions;
- Understand the synergy between physical exercise and pharmacological treatment and its repercussions for the prescription of physical exercise;
- Acquire the general knowledge and skills for assessing the state of readiness for physical exercise, for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention with physical exercise;
- Be able to identify the stages of behavior change and assesses motivation and readiness for change
- Know how to identify and eliminate barriers for physical exercise and be able to implement strategies to maintain behavioral change.
Working method
Presencial
Program
- Introduction to clinical exercise
- Physical inactivity, physical activity, exercise and illness
- Pharmacology and physical exercise
- Clinical interview, assessment of readiness and monitoring of physical exercise
- Motivation to change and maintain healthy behaviors
Mandatory literature
Jonathan N. Myers;
ACSM.s resources for clinical exercise physiology. ISBN: 0-7817-3502-5
Jonathan K. Ehrman;
Clinical exercise physiology. ISBN: 978-1-4925-4645-0
Walter R. Thompson;
ACSM.s clinical exercise physiology. ISBN: 978-1-4963-8780-6
Teaching methods and learning activities
The lectures will be of theoretical-practical nature, allowing the transmission of the necessary content as well as the direct implementation of the knowledge acquired through the interpretation and discussion of clinical-cases contextualized to the theme of the lecture.
Evaluation Type
Evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
| designation |
Weight (%) |
| Exame |
100,00 |
| Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
| designation |
Time (hours) |
| Estudo autónomo |
61,00 |
| Frequência das aulas |
20,00 |
| Total: |
81,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Approval to the curricular unit will be obtained with a grade equal to or greater than 9.5, which will be achieved throught attendance (at least 75% of classes) and a final exam.
Failure to pass the distributed assessment will result in an appeal exam (100% of the final grade), at the end of the semester, during the period defined for that purpose.
Calculation formula of final grade
Final classification (normal season): 1* final exam
Final classification (appeal season): 1* final exam
Classification improvement
The exam at the time of appeal to obtain approval or improvement of classification will be in the format of an "oral test".