Preventive Medicine

Code:

214

Acronym:

214

Instance: 2004/2005 - A

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	38	Plano oficial a partir de 2000	2	4	8,5	-

Objectives

To provide the basis to Health Promotion, by means of Health Education, Health Protection and Disease Prevention.

Program

Health Education and Health Protection. Disease Prevention. Disease tracking. Nutrition. Physical exercise. “Stress”. Tobacco. Alcohol, drugs and other addictions. Drug addiction. Prevention of infectious diseases. Vaccines. Prevention of respiratory diseases. Prevention in travellers. Prevention in elderly. Cardiovascular prevention in general. Prevention of Arterial Hypertension and Cerebral Vascular Accidents. Prevention of coronary diseases. Prevention and family. Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS and Hepatitis B. Prevention in Menopause. Prevention of accidents in general and at work. Environment and disease. Prevention of Cancer. Subject discussion.

Main Bibliography

-Prevention in Clinical Practice. Becker and Gardnes. (Library of the Department of General Practitioner of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto).
-Recent articles provided by the Head of the Department and by the Teaching Assistants .
-Gray, M., Fowler, G., Preventive Medicine in General Practice. Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
-Rose, G. The Strategy of Preventive Medicine. 7th Ed. Oxford: Oxford Medicine Publications, 2000.
-Bright, J.S. Health Promotion in Clinical Practice. Ed. Bailliere Tendall, 1997.

Complementary Bibliography

- Artigos recentes fornecidos pelo Regente e Assistentes.

Teaching methods and learning activities

-Theoretical classes
-Practical classes:
1 – Subject discussion
2 – Presentation of the subject by the students
3 – Preparation of the monograph by the students

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam:
-20 multiple choice questions
-6 brief questions
-3 questions for explanation of a subject

Duration of the theoretical test – 1h and 30min

Observations

Head of the Department – Prof. Doutora Maria Luciana Couto Carvalho
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Isabel Maria A. Pereira
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Paulo Pessanha
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Maria da Paz Trigueiros