Medical Specialties II

Code:

MIMD040206

Acronym:

ESPMED II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mestrado Integrado
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Dental Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMD	60	Official Plan from the academic year 2020/2021	4	-	3	45	81
		NÃO INSCREVER - Plano exclusivo para uso administrativo	4	-	3	45	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Dentists have an obligation to contribute to the global health promotion of their patients and to be able to collaborate with other health professionals, in order to harmoniously integrate all the healthcare provided.
They need to be able to deal with a medical emergency in a dental office.

The objectives of this Course Unit are the acquisition of knowledge:
1. In the interpretation of diagnostic tests;
2. In pathophysiology and pathology management in the areas of nephrology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, infectiology, clinical hematology, neurology, oncology, obstetrics, immunology and transplantation, mental health and geriatrics, and their interactions with dentistry;
3. In managing medical emergencies.

Learning outcomes and competences

The skills to be acquired in this Course Unit are:
1. The development of a safe working environment, based on risk assessment and promotion of the safety care of patients;
2. The ability to collect and record the patient's complete clinical history, particularly the medical components, perform a physical examination, interpret the data and to perform a clinical investigation;
3. The ability to individualize treatment according to the age, general condition and comorbidities of its users;
4. Understanding the relevance of the pathologies addressed, the implications in dentistry of the existence of systemic disease and its treatments;
5. The ability to respond to a medical emergency in clinical practice.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Theoretical classes
Class 1 - Interpretation of auxiliary diagnostic exams
Class 2 – Management of patients with chronic kidney disease
Class 3 – Management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Class 4 – Pathology of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis
Class 5 – The patient with HIV, herpes or viral hepatitis
Class 6 - Erythrocyte Pathology
Class 7 - Platelet Pathology
Lesson 8 – Neurological Disease – What's Important?
Class 9 – The cancer patient
Class 10 - The pregnant patient
Class 11 – The transplant patient and interactions with immunosuppressive drugs
Class 12 - Immunoalergology
Class 13 - Mental Health
Class 14 - The geriatric patient or those with special needs

Theoretical-practical classes - Discussion of clinical cases of the topics covered in theoretical classes - 13 classes

Review/questions - 1 class

- Chronic kidney disease

- Jaundice

- Hypothyroidism

- Adrenal failure

- Viral infection - adenovirus, Influenza virus, Coronavirus

- Seizures

- Stroke patient

- dementia syndrome

- Cancer patient undergoing treatment

- Foreign body aspiration

- Anaphylaxis

- Transplanted patient

Mandatory literature

Crispian Scully; Scully's Medical Problems in Dentistry, 7th Edition, 2014
Bates; Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 12th edition, 2016

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methods include:
1. Theoretical classes
2. Theoretical-practical classes
3. Presentation of "portfolios"

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	50,00
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	36,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

To obtain attendance, it is necessary to attend at least 75% of the scheduled classes

Calculation formula of final grade

- Continuous assessment (25% of final assessment)
- Portfolio (25% of the final evaluation)
- Final exam: Multiple choice test - 60 questions for 90 minutes (50% of the final evaluation) - Minimum grade 9.5 (0-20)


Students with student worker status, the final assessment will be calculated as follows:

- Portfolio (50% of the final evaluation)
- Final exam: Multiple choice test - 60 questions for 90 minutes (50% of the final evaluation) - Minimum grade 9,5 (0-20)

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

All special exams authorized for students with statute will be oral tests.

Classification improvement

Written test