Wound care

Code:

OPT133

Acronym:

TF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S (of 09-09-2019 to 09-02-2020)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Surgery and Physiology Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	10	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	4	-	3	28	81
			5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Acquisition of knowledge, aptitudes and attitudes which enable evaluation and therapeutical orientation of common wounds.:

Knowledge of the tissue healing process;

General principles of wound treatment;

Guidelines for common wound management

Referral criteria for complex wounds.

Learning outcomes and competences

In this optional curricular unit (wound treatment), the students will develop knowledge, skills and competences which will enable a clinical practice for the primary care physician. The learning objectives are adapted to the programmatic contents with particular emphasis on clinical and nursing practice as well as referral to different specialties (Plastic Surgery, vascular Surgery, General Surgery, Orthopedics and Endocrinology, Geriatrics medical, Nursing, etc.) and multidisciplinary consultation.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Syllabus:
How important is wound care ?

Basic principles of tissue healing

Sterility, aseptic technique, priorities in wound management

Sedation, analgesia, local anesthesia

Basic surgical instruments

Bleeding control

Suture principles

Wound dressings

Follow up – basic principles (positioning, immobilization, bath, physical activities, traveling, drain removal, suture removal)

Scars and keloids

Referral criteria for wounds

Mandatory literature

Jack C. Fisher… [et al.];Everyday Wounds ; Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, 1997
Dayicioglu, Deniz.; Oeltjen, John C.; Thaller, Seth R.; Fan, Kenneth L.;; Aesthetic Surgery: The Essentials, 1ª Ed, World Scientific Publishing Co, 1ª Ed, World Scientific Publishing Co, , 2012. ISBN: 978-9814307109

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching methodology aims to integrate students in clinical practice in multidisciplinary consultation (diabetic foot), Plastic Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Plastic Surgery at the hospital in view of a coherent and integrated approach to clinical problem wounds as well as a multidisciplinary activity (interacted simultaneously various specialties) and clinical cases to referral.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	75,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	15,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	53,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Realização de Estágio	14,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining Frequency:



Attendance: at least 75% of the planned class activities - 28 * 0.75 = 21 h



 

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed evaluation is from 0 to 20



Formative assessment (80% of Final Assessment) = 8 values

Group work (10%) = 1 value

Clinical cases (15%) = 1 Value