MI119 - ECTS

At the end of this course the student should:

 

Be familiar with the anatomical terminology.

Understand the general organization of the locomotor system.

Understand how the locomotor system works.

Understand the anatomical bases of human posture and locomotion.

Develop observational skills.

Practice the description technique, by using the appropriate terminology.

Acquire a knowledge base that can be used in the interpretation of pathological situations and later applied in other curricular units of the course and in future clinical experience.

MI120 - ECTS 1. we will always try to keep in mind the medical nature of the course, namely by highlighting the clinical relevance of the subjects;

2. we intend to interconnect the areas as much as possible, either by including subjects that were classically attributed to Biochemistry and Cellular Biology, or by involving teachers from two of the units of FMUP's Biomedicine Department (Biochemistry and Experimental Biology);

3. we will value the learning along the semester, keeping the weight of the continuous assessment and performing two written tests of knowledge assessment;

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MI121 - ECTS

The main objective of the UC “Molecular Genetics ” is to transmit student the more recent knowledge about the dynamics of the human genome and the mechanisms that allow molecular information transmission from DNA to protein.  Indeed, the syllabus is extensively dedicated to molecular mechanisms of maintenance of integrity of the genome, methodology employed for study, diagnostic and gene-based therapies. The clinical relevance of of molecular genetics is focused along the course. This UC also includes a strong laboratory component that elucidates how to get the knowledge, and integrative scientific papers discussion sessions. The teaching staff includes professors that investigate the basic mechanisms of molecular biology and specialists in human genetics, too.

MI123 - ECTS Developing the instrumental role of the humanities as a resource for the overall education of medical students.
Acquisition of soft/"transferable" skills in the humanistic areas of self-knowledge, critical reflection, integrity, ethics and professionalism.

MI122 - ECTS

This curricular unit aims to allow students the acquisition of knowledge regarding concepts and methods specific to Epidemiology, and its application to the critical appraisal and planning of epidemiological studies.

At the end of the curricular unit the students are expected to be acquainted with the specific language of a new scientific area, being able to recognize, describe and relate different frequency, association and impact measures, the concepts of random error, bias, confounding, interaction, validity and precision, as well as the main study designs used in epidemiology. The students are expected to accomplish, autonomously: simple epidemiological tasks, such as data tabulation and calculation of measures of disease frequency, association and impact; critical appraisal of scientific articles; essential tasks for the planning of an epidemiological investigation, including the literature review and study design.

MI124 - ECTS

General: Teaching of the general organization of the macroscopic structure of the human body that constitutes a solid foundation on which an important part of the medical education and future profession will rest.

Specific: (i) contribute to the learning of terminology that forms the basis of medical language; (ii) teach the nomenclature, relationships, functions, development and variations of the structures that make up the respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive systems, cardiovascular system and endocrine glands; (iii) develop observation skills and learn the technique of description by using appropriate terminology; (iv) develop self-learning; (v) acquire a knowledge base that can be applied in other curricular units of the medical course and in future clinical experience.

MI128 - ECTS

Acquire basic knowledge about: (A) cell cycle regulation, cell division and molecular processes underlying differentiation, dedifferentiation and cellular aging; (B) cytogenetic techniques and basic concepts on structure and function of chromosomes, (C) etiopathogenesis of chromosomal pathology, preparing students to acquire knowledge related to genetic transmission of chromosomal disorders and genetic risk assessment. Additionally it is intended that students be able to critically evaluate scientific literature and apply the basic principles of the scientific research in biology and genetics.

MI126 - ECTS

To endow medical students with theoretical knowledge on:

Structure and integrative functioning of cell organelles, the mechanisms that promote their interaction and the reasons that, arising from their structural anomaly or dysfunction, lead to the appearance of clinical entities.

Metabolic and information flows between organelles, necessary for cell maintenance and economy.

To promote hands-on learning by carrying out:

Hands-on laboratory procedures, source of biomedical knowledge.

Observation of specimens

Elaboration of small projects

A presentation to their peers of the work-out of a scientific problem based on a paper and related to the unit Program.

MI125 - ECTS

It is expected that students acquire detailed knowledge on the metabolic pathways involved in the metabolism, in humans, of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, aminoacids, aminoacid derivatives of biological interest, heme group, purines and pyrimidines and xenobiotics.

Students must also understand human metabolism as a whole, by learning important aspects of integration of metabolism (regulation of oxidative metabolism and energetic balance, hormonal regulation of metabolism) and by learning the metabolic changes associated with different aspects of our lifecycle (metabolic changes during the feeding/fasting cycle, metabolism in different cells and tissues, in the pregnant and newborn, in aging, during physical exercise and in some extreme situations).

Students must acquire knowledge on some factors affecting human metabolism, namely: vitamins, oxidative stress and antioxidant defense mechanisms, aging, nutrition and alcohol and alcoholic drinks.

Finally, students must acquire knowledge on some human pathologies related to metabolism or associated with metabolic disturbances: obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemias, diseases of fructose and galactose metabolism, diseases of beta oxidation of fatty acids, diseases of glycogen metabolism, megaloblastic anemias, diseases of aminoacid metabolism, cachexia, jaundice and metabolism in cancer cells.

MI127 - ECTS

This curricular unit has as main objective the acquisition of knowledge on the principles and concepts used in population’s health and its application for the understanding of the health and disease processes.

The syllabus of this Unit has a comprehensive nature in agreement with the objective of having a global understanding on the basic principles and major problems related with populations’ health, and to promote a vision of medical activity as part of a broader health team that it is present before and after the curative interventions.

The Unit provides tools for better critical thinking about the diversity and complexity of the factors that influence the health of individuals and populations. It uses an evidence-based approach to analyze the determinants of health and disease and the best intervention options to promote and to preserve health.

MI235 - ECTS

Decision making in healthcare should be informed by high quality scientific evidence, based on data obtained, stored, analysed and interpreted according to the most appropriate methodological, statistical and computational practices. This curricular unit aims to present the continuous process that begins with the formulation of the research question and, using the most adequate methodological and computational practices, allows for the collection and storage of high-quality data, which after adequate analysis and interpretation result in properly informed decision-making. DECIDES curricular units aim to provide the knowledge and skills so that students can be able to participate in the:

• Analysis, synthesis and discussion of scientific evidence, applying it to the process of decision making in healthcare;
• Planning and development of a research project;
• Retrieval, management and analysis of health data.

MI232 - ECTS

1. To learn the cellular and sub-cellular mechanisms, underlying the functional aspects of the human body;
2. To know the normal function of the different organs and systems of the human body taught in the curricular unit;
3. To understand the interaction between the different organs and systems of the human body as well as the mechanisms of their adaptation to changes in the environment. 
4. To establish the basis for understanding the changes in the homeostasis and also the mechanisms and manifestations of disease. 
5. To learn the changes of the human body associated with growing, development and aging.
6. To acquire a base of knowledge to use in the several physiological areas and to apply later in the other curricular units of the course and in the future clinical practice.

MI233 - ECTS The main goal of the course is the study of the microscopic and submicroscopic structure of the main tissues and systems of the Human body (the remaining systems will be studied at “Histology II. Embryology”, at the 2^nd semester). The issues will be approached in a functional perspective and considering the clinical implications. To achieve those goals, a core of fundamental knowledge will be defined in parallel with the physiological issues and opening the field to the pathological context. At the end of the course, the students will be able to perform fundamental analysis of microscopic structures in the perspective of the role of the main tissues and organs.

MI237 - ECTS

The objectives of discipline of Preventive Medicine are:

• To learn and develop a modern concept of health and its biological, psychological, social and ecological constraints;
• To describe the Portuguese organization of healthcare and the medical and paramedical providers acting in health promotion;
• To analyse the main health problems in Portugal in the context of health promotion;
• To list attitudes of health protection and prevention of the disease and its complications;
• To identify the benefits and potential harms of the preventive approach;
• To interpret and apply scientific evidence in Preventive Medicine;
• To acquire communication skills in the field of Preventive Medicine;
• To apply the model of shared medical decision in Preventive Medicine;
• To interpret risk factors and causal factors in the development of the disease.
• To develop and implement Health Education Programs.

 

MI234 - ECTS

To learn the structural organization of the Central Nervous System and its organogenesis, the cranial nerves and sense organs. To learn and to use the anatomical terminology.

Increase interdisciplinarity in establishing correlations with Physiology, Biochemistry  and others.

Acquire the basic knowledge that can be applied in other UCs of the Medical course and in future clinical experience.

MI236 - ECTS

1. To approach the person as a complex whole (considering individual, social and cultural dimensions of the person’s functioning) and within the specificities of each developmental phase (childhood, adolescence and adulthood).
2. To apply observation, identification and interpretation skills to human expressions (behaviors, emotional reactions, or non-verbal communication) in the context of the dynamics of a medical interview.
3. To act appropriately in the presence of those expressions and dynamics emerging in the context of the medical interview.
4. To adopt a clinical attitude that contributes to a more successful medical practice (based on respect, attention, an available posture and an understanding and empathic approach to the person).
5. To develop critical and analytical skills.

6. To develop a professional attitude in class and regarding the medical interview process and peers/colleagues.

OPT01 - ECTS 1. To consolidate the learning of normal mitochondrial physiology
2. To understand the key molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction
3. To understand how to use the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction for diagnosing concrete clinical situations, namely degenerative and neoplastic diseases.
4. To understand how to use the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in the aging process and in its relationship with neurodegenerative diseases.
5. To learn how to use the molecular diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders in the development of new therapies.

OPT157 - ECTS

Some of the unique aspects of cadaveric dissection include the realistic nature of this teaching medium, which allows students to get a clear three-dimensional picture of the organization of the human body, to check for variations in normality, to analyze the texture of human tissues, and sometimes , observe and understand pathological conditions. 

Besides being arguably an important method of learning anatomy, it reinforces the attitudes of respect and compassion among medical students. 

It also allows to learn dissection techniques and acquire manual dexterity, fundamental for all future doctors. 

It also enables students to develop critical thinking, problem solving and practical application of knowledge.

OPT02 - ECTS

• Explain the need for anthropological reflection for an integral understanding of medicine and for the practice of humanized medicine.

• Acquire the ability to adopt a professional practice that values and safeguards the systemic centrality of the Person, as a cultural and social subject, in the different healthcare processes.

• Show the anthropological horizon of the Medical Act and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.

• Acquire or deepen awareness of the meaning and implications of the human being - who is a subject - being the object of medicine and recognise the anthropological character of medicine as a science and as a praxis.

• Show the contribution that Medical Anthropology, in the complementarity of the two currents that converge in it, philosophical and cultural (Medical Anthropology), offers to medical culture, in the face of the emerging challenges of biomedical and techno-scientific developments, in order to improve the efficiency and humanisation of health programmes and services.

• Learn to recognise the diversity of perspectives on Man in relationship with health and illness, in a context of multi-culturalism, as an integral element in the humanisation of medicine.

• Exemplify some situations in which anthropological data becomes particularly relevant for an appropriate therapeutic approach (Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Ethnic minorities, Migrant populations).

OPT160 - ECTS

1. Define the concepts and dimensions associated with stress, burnout and self-care;
2. Recognize the structural characteristics of health organizations and their consequences for the development of conditions that foster emotional exhaustion;
3. Recognize protective and vulnerability factors associated with the burnout experience;
4. Develop self-management skills that empower self-care.

OPT93 - ECTS

Acquisition of competences to accomplish the tasks related to semiology, pathology and essential nosologic clinical entities (frequent and/or relevant) to the speciality of Angiology and Vascular Surgery.

OPT10 - ECTS

To complete successfully this curricular unit, students must achieve the following objectives:

• To learn the method for collecting the medical history, including the including the psychosocial component and familial evaluation;

• To use familial evaluation methods at level of Primary Health Care;

• To develop skills of clinical interview;

• To evaluatethe weight ofpsychosocial factorsin an individual with chronic disease, disability orrelevant health event.

• To arguehow thesefactorsaffect the patient’s family environment and of other persons how share his / her life.

MI241 - ECTS

After completing this curricular unit, Students should be able to:

• Implement, interpret results and assess the adequacy of multivariable regression models and of survival analyses;
• Plan, critically assess and interpret the results of diagnosis and prognosis studies;
• Know basic concepts of causal inference, as well as different methods to control for confounding;
• Plan, critically assess and interpret the results of a systematic review;
• Perform meta-analysis to synthesise health information, as well as to interpret the respective results, and know the most adequate methods to identify sources of heterogeneity;
• Know basic aspects in the assessment of the quality of scientific evidence and of decision analysis;
• Display results in tables and graphs;
• Structure and participate in the draft a scientific article.

OPT164 - ECTS

1.  Acquisition of basic knowledge in the specific field of clinical records and the rights and duties inherent thereto;
2. Understanding of the same knowledge;
3. Application of acquired knowledge;
4. Analysis of this knowledge;
5. A summary of the knowledge acquired, with particular reference to the issues of access, re-use, security of clinical records and data protection of natural persons, as well as the impact of these basic and elementary notions on their practices, even as students of medicine, in the future already as doctors and in the rights of all, sick included;
6. Assessment of knowledge acquisition, understanding and application, analysis and synthesis of knowledge.

MI238 - ECTS

1. To learn the cellular and sub-cellular mechanisms, underlying the functional aspects of the human body;
2. To know the normal function of the different organs and systems of the human body taught in the curricular unit; 
3. To understand the interaction between the different organs and systems of the human body as well as the mechanisms of their adaptation to changes in the environment.
4. To establish the basis for understanding the changes in the homeostasis and also the mechanisms and manifestations of disease. 
5. To learn the changes of the human body associated with growing, development and aging. 
6. To acquire a base of knowledge to use in the several physiological areas and to apply later in the other curricular units of the course and in the future clinical practice.

OPT39 - ECTS

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. To know and understand the basic mechanisms of disease manifestation.
2. To understand the pathophysiology of dysfunction and failure of the body organs and systems.
3. Identification of pathophysiologic changes and its clinical manifestations in major examples.

OPT167 - ECTS

Acquisition of competences to accomplish the tasks related to semiology, pathology and essential nosologic clinical entities (frequent and/or relevant) in the field of Phlebology.

OPT14 - ECTS In this unit, it is intended to promote social and human development of future physicians through service learning.
To create a space where the student could contact with the reality of society and interact with different types of people helping to better understand the Human Person.
It is intended that the student understand their role in society and become more socially responsible.
It is hoped through this course to contribute to a medical doctor more humane and attentive to social problems.

OPT168 - ECTS

1.  Identification and selection of the different equipment used in medical and scientific photography
2. Basic principles of photography
3. Preparation of photographs for printing or for scientific presentations and scientific papers
4. Management and organization of files and archives
5. Ethical aspects of photography

MI239 - ECTS

MI243 - ECTS Learning the basic mechanisms of the immune response, as a biological response to exogenous or endogenous aggression, and their interactions in human pathology, particularly in the case of deficiency of its components.

OPT200 - ECTS

- To integrate students in themes related to adolescence process, youth behaviors, and preventive and clinical approach of adolescents and young adults. At the end of this Curricular Unit students should be able to:

- To know adolescence process in a holistic way

- To identify particularities of youth behavior and the potential for health promotion

- To acquire skills in clinical approach of adolescents and young adults

OPT192 - ECTS

The main goals are the recognition and critical analysis of :

1. Current neurobiological knowledge about the foundations of Mindfulness and presumptive mechanisms of action;
2. Structure of Mindfulness Courses that are fully certified and available worldwide, namely Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (originated at the University of Massachussetts), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (originated at the University of Oxford) and Mindfulness Based Self Compassion (University of Texas). Other cognitive behavioural approaches will be considered (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy);
3. Mindfulness based approaches versus Mindfulness-informed approaches;
4. Scientific research in the area of contemplative neurosciences, namely in mind-body interventions at international universities with scientific publications and proper follow-up;
5. Construction of  personal Mindfulness and Meditation practice.

MI242 - ECTS

 The aim is to contribute to the emotional maturity of the apprentice, which may give rise to a therapeutic attitude.

What goes through acquiring knowledge in propaedeutics — clinical interviewing skills contemplating, on the one hand, the therapeutic dimension of doctor-patient relationship; and on the other hand, the illness behaviour and morbid lifestyles, stress and somatoform disturbs —, and semiotics.

Knowledge further complemented by training competencies allowing to recognize how the person influences symptom expression and how symptoms affect the person; as well as to identify toxic lifestyles. And furthermore, falling upon the doctor-patient relationship, through developing the capacity to manage a transference relationship in a therapeutic sense — here included empathic capacity, authenticity, and “knowing how to listen” in order to achieve a global diagnostic of the person and his circumstances.

MI240 - ECTS Training medical students in medical imaging modalities, based on the observation and interpretation of images representing normality or anatomic variants.

OPT30 - ECTS

This curricular unit is intended to assist medical students to increase their awareness of stress and its deleterious effects on health. At the end of this unit students will be able to:

 

1. Recognize the impact of stress on modern life and health

2. Identify the major mediators involved in stress response

3. Understand the physiological responses to different types of stressors

4. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of core stress knowledge

5. Recognize the underlying abnormalities causing metabolic syndrome features

6. Identify stress related diseases

7. Recognize the main human and animal experimental models, and biomarkers, to study stress

8. Recognize various strategies to cope with stress

OPT01 - ECTS 1. To consolidate the learning of normal mitochondrial physiology
2. To understand the key molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction
3. To understand how to use the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction for diagnosing concrete clinical situations, namely degenerative and neoplastic diseases.
4. To understand how to use the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in the aging process and in its relationship with neurodegenerative diseases.
5. To learn how to use the molecular diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders in the development of new therapies.

OPT157 - ECTS

Some of the unique aspects of cadaveric dissection include the realistic nature of this teaching medium, which allows students to obtain a clear three-dimensional image of the organization of the human body, to prove the existence of variations of normality, to analyze the texture of human tissues, and sometimes, observe and understand pathological conditions.

 As well as being an indisputably important method of learning anatomy, it reinforces the attitudes of respect and compassion among medical students.

It also allows you to learn techniques of dissection and acquire manual dexterity, essential for all future doctors.

 It also enables students to develop critical thinking, problem solving skills and practical application of knowledge

OPT02 - ECTS

• Explain the need for anthropological reflection for an integral understanding of medicine and for the practice of humanized medicine.

• Acquire the ability to adopt a professional practice that values and safeguards the systemic centrality of the Person, as a cultural and social subject, in the different healthcare processes.

• Show the anthropological horizon of the Medical Act and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.

• Acquire or deepen awareness of the meaning and implications of the human being - who is a subject - being the object of medicine and recognise the anthropological character of medicine as a science and as a praxis.

• Show the contribution that Medical Anthropology, in the complementarity of the two currents that converge in it, philosophical and cultural (Medical Anthropology), offers to medical culture, in the face of the emerging challenges of biomedical and techno-scientific developments, in order to improve the efficiency and humanisation of health programmes and services.

• Learn to recognise the diversity of perspectives on Man in relationship with health and illness, in a context of multi-culturalism, as an integral element in the humanisation of medicine.

• Exemplify some situations in which anthropological data becomes particularly relevant for an appropriate therapeutic approach (Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Ethnic minorities, Migrant populations).

MI331 - ECTS

The main aim of Biopathology I is getting the students to learn a language. Learning of this language includes not only the memorisation and recall of words and of concepts but also the capability for using this knowledge in the interpretation of data and for solving pathogenic and diagnostic problems. Another purpose is getting the students to improve their observation and report skills at different levels (macroscopic, microscopic, histochemical, etc.) to become capable of understanding the etiopathogenesis of diseases in biopathological terms starting from observational data.

OPT05 - ECTS

The main goal of this course is to help students to understand how specific motor, limbic, and cognitive functions emerge within the brain. This will be achieved by acquiring and integrating knowledge from several disciplines, such as neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry and behavioral neuroscience. The students will be familiarized with modern experimental techniques used to investigate the neuronal basis of behavior. Finally, the students will familiarize themselves with the interests and motivations that have driven the investigation of the linkage between neural circuitry and complex behaviors.

OPT120 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective, of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent laparoscopic surgery situations.

OPT93 - ECTS

Acquisition of competences to accomplish the tasks related to semiology, pathology and essential nosologic clinical entities (frequent and/or relevant) to the speciality of Angiology and Vascular Surgery.

OPT95 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent coloproctologic situations.

OPT07 - ECTS

The objective of the Curricular Unit is to make the student aware of the importance of Communication, Branding and Marketing as a global strategy of competitive differentiation that generates value for companies, institutions, people and organizations in general, as well as developing in students the ability to take decision making in order to ensure an effective management of relationships with its main stakeholders, according to a new paradigm that places the client at the center of the management of interactions in Health.

OPT08 - ECTS

Effective communication of scientific knowledge is an essential component of any career in the sciences.

The overall objective of this unit is to help train doctors and researchers who will strive for excellence in writing and communicate science in scientific and popular science contexts.

At the end of the unit, the student is expected to be able to:

-select efficiently the scientific sources for its own study and research

-prepare and present a scientific poster

-know the structure and the main steps for the elaboration of a scientific paper

-orally and by writing present a main message from research to a scientific audience and to the public

-to develop the ability to analyze critically and discuss the strategies applied to communicating science in diverse social and professional contexts

-write a press release

-present a well written curriculum vitae and a motivation letter

OPT09 - ECTS

The objectives of this course are:

To know the organization of Primary Health Care (PHC) in Portugal

To know the profile of the providers practicing in Primary Health Care (general and family medicine and public health doctors, nurses, clinical secretary)

To know the health-related social sector activity

To know the functioning of a Family Health Unit (health center)

OPT11 - ECTS

To complete successfully this curricular unit, students must achieve the following objectives:

• To develop a clinical approach oriented to the patient, his family and surrounding community, dealing health problems both in the physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual dimensions.

• To acquire skills on the continuity of care over time, through a doctor-patient effective communication;

• To promote the simultaneous management of acute and chronic health problems of the patients;

• To use familial evaluation methods at level of Primary Health Care.

OPT164 - ECTS

1.  Acquisition of basic knowledge in the specific field of clinical records and the rights and duties inherent thereto;
2. Understanding of the same knowledge;
3. Application of acquired knowledge;
4. Analysis of this knowledge;
5. A summary of the knowledge acquired, with particular reference to the issues of access, re-use, security of clinical records and data protection of natural persons, as well as the impact of these basic and elementary notions on their practices, even as students of medicine, in the future already as doctors and in the rights of all, sick included;
6. Assessment of knowledge acquisition, understanding and application, analysis and synthesis of knowledge.

OPT42 - ECTS In this curricular unit, machine learning methods will be addressed for the knowledge discovery in data (data mining) in the health area.

MI332 - ECTS

Students are expected to learn the current knowledge on the molecular interventions of medicines and poisons and to learn the skills to evaluate new knowledge and new drugs. In detail, students are expected to know how medicines and poisons work. They are expected to know the critical actions for medical practice of drugs with multiple locals of action (drugs that act on the autonomic nervous system, drugs that act on the endocrine system, drugs that reduce the perception of pain, antibacterial drugs and antidotes). They are expected to understand the progress and constraints of current pharmacological therapy and to be able to evaluate future drug therapy.

OPT39 - ECTS

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. To know and understand the basic mechanisms of disease manifestation.
2. To understand the pathophysiology of dysfunction and failure of the body organs and systems.
3. Identification of pathophysiologic changes and its clinical manifestations in major examples.

OPT14 - ECTS In this unit, it is intended to promote social and human development of future physicians through service learning.
To create a space where the student could contact with the reality of society and interact with different types of people helping to better understand the Human Person.
It is intended that the student understand their role in society and become more socially responsible.
It is hoped through this course to contribute to a medical doctor more humane and attentive to social problems.

OPT168 - ECTS

1.  Identification and selection of the different equipment used in medical and scientific photography
2. Basic principles of photography
3. Preparation of photographs for printing or for scientific presentations and scientific papers
4. Management and organization of files and archives
5. Ethical aspects of photography

OPT40 - ECTS
Provide students with a deeper understanding of the criteria for the use of assisted reproductive techniques, the limits of the genetic causes and their potential therapeutic and diagnostic approaches.

MI335 - ECTS To integrate the knowledge of the basic mechanisms of the immune response in the pathogenesis of human diseases. To understand the basic principles of clinical and laboratorial diagnosis and or the treatment of immune diseases. At the end of this Curricular Unit students are expected to acquire the following competences: A - To demonstrate knowledge of immune dysfunction in a clinical perspective and of immunological therapies; B – To apply basic immunology concepts in the interpretation of human pathology; C – To describe common immunopathological conditions and know how to collect laboratorial data to formulate a diagnosis; D – To be able to communicate scientific and technical information; E – To demonstrate skills on continuous personal development.

OPT149 - ECTS

This curricular unit is intended to assist students to increase their awareness of the importance of academic and professional integrity. At the end of this unit students will be able to:

1. Know and apply knowledge about core concepts of ethics and academic and professional integrity
2. Identify academic and professional questionable practices and fraud.
3. Recognize the impact of questionable practices and fraud (fabrication, falsification and plagiarism) on academic and professional integrity
4. Demonstrate compreensive understanding about the process of writing and publish a scientic paper
5. Recognize strategies to promote good conduct practices  

OPT45 - ECTS

Students are expect to be able to acquire knowledge and skills to carry out a functional evaluation of in vivo cardiac and vascular function, as well as the implementation of animal models of disease. These skills are essential to enable students to participate in scientific projects.

OPT20 - ECTS

1 - To consolidate the learning concerning the basic principles of cancer and to identify the key molecular oncogenic pathways of the cell.

2 - Identify the major molecular therapeutic targets in cancer and describe their importance in cancer therapeutic management.

3 - To identify the different forms of therapeutic resistance in cancer

4 - To interpret the signaling crosstalk of the major oncogenic pathways in the context of the response and therapeutic resistance.

5 - To explain the importance of the molecular biomarkers in the clinical oncology practice, especially on the stratification of the patients and on the therapeutic decision.

6 - To discuss the importance of the translational research in cancer to the identification of new drugable targets.

MI333 - ECTS The main objectives of the proposed curricular unit are the teaching of Medical Microbiology. We consider fundamental to promote the development of new mental structures, capacities and new attitudes that may provide students the ability needed to analyze and solve problems.

OPT201 - ECTS

This curricular unit aims to study the surface anatomy of the different regions of the human brain, as well as the recognition of its internal organization, its basic functions and to identify and understand the three-dimensional organization of the brain.

It will allow student to train dissection techniques in order to identify, isolate and preserve nuclei, bundles of nerve fibers in the cerebral hemispheres, brainstem and cerebellum, and also in the cerebral vessels and meninges.

It will also allow the student the ability to establish correlations between morphology and function, to correlate morphology with imaging aspects and to transpose the two-dimensionality to the three-dimensionality of the brain regions under consideration. Different imaging techniques will be used both in the diagnostic of physiological and functional characterization of diseases, as well as in possible therapy and in the evaluation of results.

OPT192 - ECTS

The main goals are the recognition and critical analysis of :

1. Current neurobiological knowledge about the foundations of Mindfulness and presumptive mechanisms of action;
2. Structure of Mindfulness Courses that are fully certified and available worldwide, namely Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (originated at the University of Massachussetts), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (originated at the University of Oxford) and Mindfulness Based Self Compassion (University of Texas). Other cognitive behavioural approaches will be considered (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy);
3. Mindfulness based approaches versus Mindfulness-informed approaches;
4. Scientific research in the area of contemplative neurosciences, namely in mind-body interventions at international universities with scientific publications and proper follow-up;
5. Construction of  personal Mindfulness and Meditation practice.

OPT177 - ECTS Molecular pathology

Gain knowledge about different types of specimens (e.g. tissue biopsy, cytology, resections).

Get familiar with all the steps that lead from samples collection to final molecular report generation along with all possible bottlenecks.

Have an overview about the currently used technological platforms in molecular diagnostics (comparison with the research setting).

Get familiar with the most common clinically relevant variants along with their interpretation and classification system.

Understand the basics (procedures and rules) of an accredited clinical laboratory.

MI334 - ECTS

To develop skills - cognitive and behavioral - in the area of the doctor-patient communication, including qualification for clinical history and physical examination procedures, including vital signs, chest and the neurological exam.

During the course, the student will start his / her contact with the clinical reality, predominantly in the context of hospital wards, occasionally in the context of external consultation.

At the end of this course, the student must have acquired the ability to collect a clinical history that interests the subjects of patients with pathologies of the respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems. Methods will be taught to write the data, order them in a meaningful narrative that makes possible the correct interpretation by others, the proper use of medical semantics and their correspondence with the general vocabulary. Techniques to detect inconsistencies and failures in the information provided by the patient will be demonstrated.

The physical examination methodology regarding the general aspect, the interpretation of vital signs, palpation techniques, percussion and auscultation of the chest will be taught while learning will be evaluated during practical classes. The basic neurological examination will also be practiced.

OPT30 - ECTS

This curricular unit is intended to assist medical students to increase their awareness of stress and its deleterious effects on health. At the end of this unit students will be able to:

 

1. Recognize the impact of stress on modern life and health

2. Identify the major mediators involved in stress response

3. Understand the physiological responses to different types of stressors

4. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of core stress knowledge

5. Recognize the underlying abnormalities causing metabolic syndrome features

6. Identify stress related diseases

7. Recognize the main human and animal experimental models, and biomarkers, to study stress

8. Recognize various strategies to cope with stress

MI341 - ECTS

Knowledge: The essential aim of the Curricular Unit of Bioethics and Medical Professional Ethics is that the student acquires the necessary knowledge in health care ethics, especially in what concerns the ethical dimension of health and of disease and its relation with the medical profession. In the plan of the concepts the aims are the acquisition of the more representative ethical theories of human thought.

 

Skills: With this curricular unit the medical student must gather the necessary skills for a responsible exercise of medical profession. The student must be adequately informed about the norms of medical deontology so that his practice is in accordance with the ethical principles of modern medicine. 

MI336 - ECTS

The main aim of Biopathology II is getting the students to use the study of neoplastic and pre-neoplastic lesions, from general aspects of classification and molecular biology to the various etiopathogenic models in defferent organs and systems.

MI337 - ECTS At the end of the course, the student is expected to understand how medicines and poisons act, and how they reach their biological targets. The student is expected to understand the major rules of quantitative pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics relevant to medical treatment and poisoning. This is achieved by the standard syllabus of general pharmacology and of special pharmacology of drugs with multiple systemic actions.

MI340 - ECTS To acquire the fundamental knowledge of the etiopathogenesis of genetic diseases. To teach the students the gestures of the geneticist's activity and the care that the assisting or family doctor should have, not only in tracking the cases that can have eventual genetic interest but also in the relationship with the patient and the geneticist, for the best effectiveness of the genetic counseling.
To establish with the students the framing and interrelations of the existing knowledge for an easier understanding of the new knowledge and develop students’ capacity to correctly transmit to patients and family the information that concerns them, once the situation has been defined by the geneticist.

MI338 - ECTS The main objectives of the proposed curricular unit are the teaching of Medical Microbiology. We consider fundamental to promote the development of new mental structures, capacities and new attitudes  so the students can analyse and solve problems.

MI339 - ECTS

During their period of attendance in the Surgical Propaedeutics Unit, the students should acquire:

Theoretical knowledge enabling them to collect clinical data in exploring surgical and pediatric diseases and select the proper differential diagnoses and diagnostic tests that would allow them to attain a definite diagnosis.

Knowledge and attitudes enabling them to establish a proper contact with both the patient and the other healthcare professionals involved in their accompanying and treatment.

Knowledge and skills enabling them to understand the complexity of the diagnostic interpretation of patients’ signs and symptoms, integrating them with prior knowledge in epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, genetics, pathology and pathophysiology. Similarly, they should understand the reasoning behind differential diagnoses and imaging/lab tests that might allow them to reach a final diagnosis.

MI437 - ECTS Approach to themes and practical cases that articulate the production of knowledge in the great area of General Surgery with supervised training (practical classes) in addition to theoretical classes, theoretical-practical classes and seminars in the General Surgery Service, aiming to acquire basic knowledge about surgical pathologies more common, in addition to the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable basic clinical performance in General Surgery.
Transmit it to the student, and require them in the future to be guided by the highest standards of quality and the principles of ethics/bioethics, with a view to solving health problems.

MI444 - ECTS

After completing this curricular unit, Students should be able to:

• Model data relations;
• Know the most adequate methods to integrate different data sources;
• Understand the main diagnosis and procedures classification systems;
• Efficiently use health information systems;
• Respect the safety and privacy practices of health information systems;
• Operate the most frequently used health information systems;
• Know the main paradigms of digital health;
• Know the organization of the Portuguese healthcare system;
• Understand how scientific evidence can be integrated in the process of decision making;
• Represent in formal and adequate ways the process of decision making in health care;
• Manage and integrate the fundamental components of any decision-making process in healthcare:  (i) the best scientific evidence, (ii) patients’ characteristics, perspectives and values, (iii) clinical experience and (iv) the costs and economic impact of the alternatives;
• Explore uncertainties in the process of health decision making.

MI441 - ECTS

Knowledge of the clinical pictures, physiopathological mechanisms and principles of therapy for common and/or serious diseases in the field of Dermatology and Venereology. Ability to rank the principles of medical and surgical decision, timely surgical intervention and referral.

Ability to integrate a team of dermatologists in the outpatient consultation, surgery or inpatient ward. Valorization of self guided and continuous learning and team work.

Contact and training with different methods of observation, study and therapeutical approach, medical and surgical, of conditions in the field of Dermatology and Venereology.

MI432 - ECTS Students will gain knowledge and clinical skills on the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the most frequent and/or relevant cardiac and vascular pathologies. The Faculty is composed by Cardiologists, Cardiac Surgeons, Vascular Surgeons, Pharmacologists, Radiologists and Pathologists.  An integrated medical-surgical approach is used.

MI434 - ECTS Main objective: To acquire the theoretical and clinical practice skills on endocrine, metabolic and nutritional pathology.
Specifc objectives: To identify the most common endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders underlying mechanisms. To develop skills in the collection, recording and reporting of clinical information (clinical history and physical examination of endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders); To use the information obtained to prepare a list of problems and propose the research to differentiate the main diagnoses and resolve persistent doubts by rational use of complementary diagnostic tools (diagnostic strategy). Acquire a core of theoretical knowledge that allows the resolution of the most frequent endocrine, metabolic and nutritional conditions (resolution of clinical problems). Building a therapeutic strategy using all available means, from the non-pharmacological, such as lifestyle changes, to drugs, surgery and others means of complementary therapy, and be enable to look for information to make decisions.

MI435 - ECTS

This course unit aims to provide students with knowledge and skills on the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the most frequent or relevant respiratory and thoracic pathologies. Therefore, students should develop the essential skills and competencies to provide patients with the correct treatment.
In order to provide the aforementioned skills, specialists in areas such as Pulmonology, Thoracic surgery, Clinical pharmacology, Radiology and Pathology will be part of the teaching staff of the course, being an integrated medical-surgical, therapeutic, pathological and imagiological approach also applied.

MI443 - ECTS The General and Family Medicine curricular unit aims to enable students to acquire knowledge about the tasks and competences of General and Family Medicine: primary care management, person-centred care, specific problem silving skills,  comprehensive approach, community orientation and holistic modelling.

It is intended that students acquired knowledge about the organization of the National Health Service and the history of Primary Health Care.

It is also intended that students understand how, in the current practice of General and Family Medicine, the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine and new information and communication technologies are incorporated in supporting the decision-making for specific clinical situations.

MI433 - ECTS

- Learning to evaluate and interpret the functions of the nervous system (NS) in order to, with data from the history and clinical examination, determine the neurological syndrome, propose diagnostic hypotheses, determine which complementary exams are appropriate for clarification, based on knowledge of the most frequent NS and muscle diseases in the general population.

- Theoretical knowledge and assessment at the patient's bedside, whenever possible, of the following topics:

• Neurological examination;
• Neurological syndromes;
• Epilepsy;
• Dementias;
• Cerebrovascular diseases;
• Headaches;
• Movement diseases;
• Vertigo, syncope and coma
• Neuromuscular diseases;
• Inflammatory and demyelinating diseases of the nervous system;
• Functional neurological disorder
• Diseases of the spine and its contents;
• Traumatic brain injuries;
• Central nervous system tumors;
• Emergencies in Neurology and Neurosurgery;
• Ancillary exams for diagnosis;

MI438 - ECTS To show the students the extent of the eye specialists' professional performance.

To stimulate the choice for a professional career as an eye specialist by the students who feel a vocation for the scientific-professional area of Ophthalmology.

To transmit basic notions that allows future doctors to contribute to the screening, diagnosis and treatment of the main ocular diseases

MI439 - ECTS Apprehension of clinical conditions, pathophysiological mechanisms and generic therapeutic principles in diseases within the scope of Orthopedics, Traunatology and Plastic Surgery that are more frequent and/or serious, rank the principles of medical and surgical decision, action and timely referral.

Knowing how to integrate into an Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery team in consultation, internment or in the block, valuing self-directed learning and continued learning, teamwork and a multidisciplinary approach.

Contact and training in methods of observation, study and therapeutic, medical and surgical approach to conditions in the scope of Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery

MI440 - ECTS

1. Obtain basic knowledge in the scope of Otorhinolaryngology.

2. Acquire competences in patient evaluation through clinical history and physical examination.

3. Develop diagnostic strategies and criteria for selection of complementary diagnostic techniques/exams.

4. Enhance the critical view towards the resolution of clinical problems and proposal of management options.

5. Search for a spirit of excellence and compassion in the approach of the patient.


 
 

 

MI436 - ECTS

Specific objectives: Identify the mechanisms underlying the most frequent or relevant rheumatic diseases.

Develop expertise in collecting, recording and transmitting clinical information (Clinical history and physical examination of rheumatic diseases).

Use the information obtained in order to draw up a list of problems and propose an investigation that allows us to differentiate the main diagnoses and resolve persistent doubts through the rational use of complementary diagnostic methods (diagnostic strategy).

Acquire a core of theoretical knowledge that allows you to solve the most frequent rheumatic situations (solve of clinical problems).

Build a therapeutic strategy using all available means, from non-pharmacological ones, such as life-style modification and physical therapy and rehabilitation, to drugs, surgery and being able to seek information to make decisions.Os conteúdos programáticos e respetivas metodologias de ensino permitirão aos alunos uma adequada preparação no que refere aos objetivos de aprendizagem proposto. Os métodos de avaliação procurarão determinar se os objetivos de aprendizagem foram alcançados e, por isso, incluirão uma vertente de avaliação de conhecimentos, uma avaliação de gestos e atitudes e uma componente prática indispensável na futura atividade clínica.

MI442 - ECTS

To promote a critical understanding of medicines, from discovery to assessment and rational use.

This approach will both facilitate the acquisition and application of rules underlying the rational selection and prescription of drugs, as well as understanding the role of medical doctors in clinical pharmacology units, in regulatory agencies, in the pharmaceutical industry and in contract research organizations.

Therapeutics has an essentially formative background, aimed at the acquisition of skills to allow the correct use of drugs and also the practice of pedagogical interventions in health education. It is well known that patients´ education, and their relationship with therapeutics, has important outcomes in the improvement of compliance.

 

MI437 - ECTS Approach to themes and practical cases that articulate the production of knowledge in the great area of General Surgery with supervised training (practical classes) in addition to theoretical classes, theoretical-practical classes and seminars in the General Surgery Service, aiming to acquire basic knowledge about surgical pathologies more common, in addition to the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable basic clinical performance in General Surgery.
Transmit it to the student, and require them in the future to be guided by the highest standards of quality and the principles of ethics/bioethics, with a view to solving health problems.

MI444 - ECTS

After completing this curricular unit, Students should be able to:

• Model data relations;
• Know the most adequate methods to integrate different data sources;
• Understand the main diagnosis and procedures classification systems;
• Efficiently use health information systems;
• Respect the safety and privacy practices of health information systems;
• Operate the most frequently used health information systems;
• Know the main paradigms of digital health;
• Know the organization of the Portuguese healthcare system;
• Understand how scientific evidence can be integrated in the process of decision making;
• Represent in formal and adequate ways the process of decision making in health care;
• Manage and integrate the fundamental components of any decision-making process in healthcare:  (i) the best scientific evidence, (ii) patients’ characteristics, perspectives and values, (iii) clinical experience and (iv) the costs and economic impact of the alternatives;
• Explore uncertainties in the process of health decision making.

MI441 - ECTS

Knowledge of the clinical pictures, physiopathological mechanisms and principles of therapy for common and/or serious diseases in the field of Dermatology and Venereology. Ability to rank the principles of medical and surgical decision, timely surgical intervention and referral.

Ability to integrate a team of dermatologists in the outpatient consultation, surgery or inpatient ward. Valorization of self guided and continuous learning and team work.

Contact and training with different methods of observation, study and therapeutical approach, medical and surgical, of conditions in the field of Dermatology and Venereology.

MI432 - ECTS Students will gain knowledge and clinical skills on the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the most frequent and/or relevant cardiac and vascular pathologies. The Faculty is composed by Cardiologists, Cardiac Surgeons, Vascular Surgeons, Pharmacologists, Radiologists and Pathologists.  An integrated medical-surgical approach is used.

MI434 - ECTS Main objective: To acquire the theoretical and clinical practice skills on endocrine, metabolic and nutritional pathology.
Specifc objectives: To identify the most common endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders underlying mechanisms. To develop skills in the collection, recording and reporting of clinical information (clinical history and physical examination of endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders); To use the information obtained to prepare a list of problems and propose the research to differentiate the main diagnoses and resolve persistent doubts by rational use of complementary diagnostic tools (diagnostic strategy). Acquire a core of theoretical knowledge that allows the resolution of the most frequent endocrine, metabolic and nutritional conditions (resolution of clinical problems). Building a therapeutic strategy using all available means, from the non-pharmacological, such as lifestyle changes, to drugs, surgery and others means of complementary therapy, and be enable to look for information to make decisions.

MI435 - ECTS This course unit aims to provide students with knowledge and skills on the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the most frequent or relevant respiratory and thoracic pathologies. Therefore, students should develop the essential skills and competencies to provide patients with the correct treatment.
In order to provide the aforementioned skills, specialists in areas such as Pulmonology, Thoracic surgery, Clinical pharmacology, Radiology and Pathology will be part of the teaching staff of the course, being an integrated medical-surgical, therapeutic, pathological and imagiological approach also applied.

MI443 - ECTS The General and Family Medicine curricular unit aims to enable students to acquire knowledge about the fundamentals and basic competences of General and Family Medicine: the management and coordination of primary health care, community orientation, problem-solving skills, comprehensive approach, person-centred and holistic approach.

it is also intended that students acquired knowledge about the organization of the National Health Service and the history of Primary Health Care.

Finally, it is intended that the students know how, in the current practice of General and Family Medicine, is incorporated the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine and new information and communication technologies in the support of the decision of concrete clinical situations.

MI433 - ECTS

- Learning to evaluate and interpret the functions of the nervous system (NS) in order to, with data from the history and clinical examination, determine the neurological syndrome, propose diagnostic hypotheses, determine which complementary exams are appropriate for clarification, based on knowledge of the most frequent NS and muscle diseases in the general population.

- Theoretical knowledge and assessment at the patient's bedside, whenever possible, of the following topics:

• Neurological examination;
• Neurological syndromes;
• Epilepsy;
• Dementias;
• Cerebrovascular diseases;
• Headaches;
• Movement diseases;
• Vertigo, syncope and coma
• Neuromuscular diseases;
• Inflammatory and demyelinating diseases of the nervous system;
• Functional neurological disorder
• Diseases of the spine and its contents;
• Traumatic brain injuries;
• Central nervous system tumors;
• Emergencies in Neurology and Neurosurgery;
• Ancillary exams for diagnosis;

MI438 - ECTS To show the students the extent of the eye specialists' professional performance.

To stimulate the choice for a professional career as an eye specialist by the students who feel a vocation for the scientific-professional area of Ophthalmology.

To transmit basic notions that allows future doctors to contribute to the screening, diagnosis and treatment of the main ocular diseases

MI439 - ECTS Apprehension of clinical conditions, pathophysiological mechanisms and generic therapeutic principles in diseases within the scope of Orthopedics, Traunatology and Plastic Surgery that are more frequent and/or serious, rank the principles of medical and surgical decision, action and timely referral.

Knowing how to integrate into an Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery team in consultation, internment or in the block, valuing self-directed learning and continued learning, teamwork and a multidisciplinary approach.

Contact and training in methods of observation, study and therapeutic, medical and surgical approach to conditions in the scope of Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery

MI440 - ECTS

1. Obtain basic knowledge in the scope of Otorhinolaryngology.

2. Acquire competences in patient evaluation through clinical history and physical examination.

3. Develop diagnostic strategies and criteria for selection of complementary diagnostic techniques/exams.

4. Enhance the critical view towards the resolution of clinical problems and proposal of management options.

5. Search for a spirit of excellence and compassion in the approach of the patient.


 
 

 

MI436 - ECTS

Specific objectives: Identify the mechanisms underlying the most frequent or relevant rheumatic diseases.

Develop expertise in collecting, recording and transmitting clinical information (Clinical history and physical examination of rheumatic diseases).

Use the information obtained in order to draw up a list of problems and propose an investigation that allows us to differentiate the main diagnoses and resolve persistent doubts through the rational use of complementary diagnostic methods (diagnostic strategy).

Acquire a core of theoretical knowledge that allows you to solve the most frequent rheumatic situations (solve of clinical problems).

Build a therapeutic strategy using all available means, from non-pharmacological ones, such as life-style modification and physical therapy and rehabilitation, to drugs, surgery and being able to seek information to make decisions.

 

MI442 - ECTS

To promote a critical understanding of medicines, from discovery to assessment and rational use.

This approach will both facilitate the acquisition and application of rules underlying the rational selection and prescription of drugs, as well as understanding the role of medical doctors in clinical pharmacology units, in regulatory agencies, in the pharmaceutical industry and in contract research organizations.

Therapeutics has an essentially formative background, aimed at the acquisition of skills to allow the correct use of drugs and also the practice of pedagogical interventions in health education. It is well known that patients´ education, and their relationship with therapeutics, has important outcomes in the improvement of compliance.

 

MI542 - ECTS

To promote a critical understanding of medicines, from discovery to assessment and rational use.

This approach will both facilitate the acquisition and application of rules underlying the rational selection and prescription of drugs, as well as understanding the role of medical doctors in clinical pharmacology units, in regulatory agencies, in the pharmaceutical industry and in contract research organizations.

Therapeutics has an essentially formative background, aimed at the acquisition of skills to allow the correct use of drugs and also the practice of pedagogical interventions in health education. It is well known that patients´ education, and their relationship with therapeutics, has important outcomes in the improvement of compliance.

OPT129 - ECTS

Main objective: to integrate students in topics related to alcohol and other psychoactive substances consumption, and drug dependence. At the end of this course the student should have acquired skills:

1. To master the theoretical and practical aspects of forensic toxicology
2. To understand the toxicokinetics of ethanol and illicit psychoactive substances in biological systems (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion - ADME) and to recognize the factors that influence ADME
3. To identify and understand the mechanisms of action of ethanol and various drugs of abuse, and respective toxic mechanisms
4. To distinguish between legal and illegal drug use and understand the law that regulates driving under the influence of ethanol and psychotropic substances
5. To identify the key points of the Law that defines the legal regime applicable to the consumption of psychotropic substances.

OPT157 - ECTS

Some of the unique aspects of cadaveric dissection include the realistic nature of this teaching medium, which allows students to obtain a clear three-dimensional image of the organization of the human body, to prove the existence of variations of normality, to analyze the texture of human tissues, and sometimes, observe and understand pathological conditions.

 As well as being an indisputably important method of learning anatomy, it reinforces the attitudes of respect and compassion among medical students.

It also allows you to learn techniques of dissection and acquire manual dexterity, essential for all future doctors.

 It also enables students to develop critical thinking, problem solving skills and practical application of knowledge

MI535 - ECTS

1. Integrate into the general training of future physicians the notions of real-time actuation and continuous surveillance of vital functions in Anesthesia, Perioperative Care, Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine;
2. Contribute to the acquisition of knowledge and life-saving basic skills, particularly in situations of peri-arrest and severe trauma;
3. Recognize the critical patient and understand the process of receipt, stabilization, diagnosis and initial therapy and screening of level of care (II and III) of the emergent acute or acute patient;
4. Understand the methodologies of organic support of the critical patient;
5. Foster the capacity for multidisciplinary integration of knowledge about patients, particularly in situations of non-cooperation, as well as the capacity to transmit information;
6. Make known the scope of the professional practice of Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine as a contribution to the informed choice of your future medical professional career.

OPT02 - ECTS

• Explain the need for anthropological reflection for an integral understanding of medicine and for the practice of humanized medicine.

• Acquire the ability to adopt a professional practice that values and safeguards the systemic centrality of the Person, as a cultural and social subject, in the different healthcare processes.

• Show the anthropological horizon of the Medical Act and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.

• Acquire or deepen awareness of the meaning and implications of the human being - who is a subject - being the object of medicine and recognise the anthropological character of medicine as a science and as a praxis.

• Show the contribution that Medical Anthropology, in the complementarity of the two currents that converge in it, philosophical and cultural (Medical Anthropology), offers to medical culture, in the face of the emerging challenges of biomedical and techno-scientific developments, in order to improve the efficiency and humanisation of health programmes and services.

• Learn to recognise the diversity of perspectives on Man in relationship with health and illness, in a context of multi-culturalism, as an integral element in the humanisation of medicine.

• Exemplify some situations in which anthropological data becomes particularly relevant for an appropriate therapeutic approach (Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Ethnic minorities, Migrant populations).

OPT158 - ECTS Componente pratica de artroscopia

OPT89 - ECTS To develop the knowledge, skills and competency needed for the routine management of labour and delivery, including management of the main complications that occur during this period.

OPT162 - ECTS - Learn about the most frequent spine diseases in clinical practice and their semiology.
- Make a rational use of ancillary diagnostic exams.
- Practice clinical managment of patients with spine related complains.
- Recognize the clinical conditions that require surgical treatment and their priority.
- Be acquainted with the most common spinal surgical procedures.

OPT118 - ECTS Clinical training and practical application of acquired knowledge, contributing to vertical teaching, comprising semiology, pre-operative preparation, surgical therapy and post-operative follow-up in the most frequent occurrences in Obesity Surgery.

OPT119 - ECTS It will consist of clinical training with the practical application of knowledge acquired in the years before, in a contribution to teaching in a vertical way and encompassing semiology, semiotics and surgical therapy of the most frequent situations in Ambulatory Surgery and Central Block

OPT183 - ECTS Clinical training and practical application of acquired knowledge, contributing to vertical teaching, comprising semiology, pre-operative preparation, surgical therapy and post-operative follow-up in the most frequent occurrences in Oesophagogastroduodenal Surgery.

OPT120 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective, of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent laparoscopic surgery situations.

OPT92 - ECTS ·       To know the different pathologies in Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Maxillofacial Surgery;·        To know basic concepts in Plastic Surgery;·        Identify different surgical treatments for each pathology.

MI537 - ECTS

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

The students should be able to:

• Be able to establish effective communication with children, their families, and caregivers and respect their culture and beliefs.
• Demonstrate empathetic and compassionate communication.
• Recognize the importance of Ethics in pediatrics, including patient confidentiality, informed consent, and respect for autonomy, and involve parents or guardians in decision-making 
• Demonstrate professionalism in interactions with patients, families, and colleagues.
• Work effectively within interdisciplinary teams, including nurses, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals involved in pediatric care.
• Develop skills in obtaining a comprehensive pediatric history, including prenatal and birth history.
• Perform accurate and age-appropriate physical examinations of pediatric patients.
• Understand pediatric pathophysiology of the common diseases pediatric 
• Apply critical thinking skills to analyze clinical findings and develop appropriate management plans for pediatric patients.
• Understand the principles for prescribing in pediatrics
• Develop skills in self-directed learning, including the ability to seek and critically appraise relevant medical literature.
• Know how to search evidence-based guidelines and keep updated on the best practices for diagnosis, treatment, and management of common pediatric conditions.
• Incorporate evidence-based medicine principles in clinical decision-making.
• Be able to implement preventive measures in children and adolescents including:
• Assessing nutritional needs at different stages of childhood, promoting breastfeeding, weaning, and introduction of solid foods.
• Advice children, families and the community in healthy lifestyles
• Advice on immunizations, including on efficacy and safety, and promote adhesion to national vaccination guidelines
• Advice on prevention of intoxications and injuries 
• Follow the recommendations of the Child Health Book
• Evaluate the growth and nutrition status of children
• Recognize and manage common nutritional disorders, such as malnutrition, obesity, and feeding difficulties.
• Evaluate development milestones and recognize red flags and know how to refer developmental delays, learning disabilities, and behavioral disorders in children.
• Be able to take care of the newborn in the delivery room
• Identify common congenital malformations, includind congenital cardiac and urinary tract malformations
• Identify and treat frequent neonatal diseases
• Recognize, diagnose, manage and treat common acute and chronic illnesses encountered in pediatric practice, including respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infections, exanthematic diseases, allergies, and asthma
• Understand the principles of pediatric emergency care 
• Recognize and be able to start the initial management of pediatric emergencies, including respiratory distress, seizures, anaphylaxis, and provide basic life support 
• Obtain and interpret the semiology of common diseases that require surgical care;
• Recognize the conditions for surgical referral in a timely manner
• Adjust the generic surgical principles to the child, attendind to the  pathophysiology
• Integrate the principles of decision-making and the operative chronology in Pediatric Surgery
• Understand biopsychosocial implications of surgical interventions in children

OPT95 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent coloproctologic situations.

MI541 - ECTS

- Management of frequent clinical scenarios (for example: chest pain, dyspnea, abdominal pain, digestive bleeding, altered state of consciousness and acid-base disturbances), taking into account information on patients’ signs and symptoms, diagnostic results and and therapeutic institution

-Execution of essential medical procedures (thoracentesis, paracentesis, lumbar puncture, electrocardiogram, venous and arterial blood sampling, nasogastric intubation, urinary catheterization, wound sutures)

- Systematic analysis of electrocardiograms; basics of ultrasound and echocardiography (point of care ultrasonography)

- Basic identification of surgical material; wound assessment (classification, healing and therapeutic options); surgical drains and type of drains; ostomies (indications, classification and complications)

- Perioperative care and invasive peri-procedures (including notions of fluid therapy)

OPT07 - ECTS

The objective of the Curricular Unit is to make the student aware of the importance of Communication, Branding and Marketing as a global strategy of competitive differentiation that generates value for companies, institutions, people and organizations in general, as well as developing in students the ability to take decision making in order to ensure an effective management of relationships with its main stakeholders, according to a new paradigm that places the client at the center of the management of interactions in Health.

OPT76 - ECTS To acquire competence (mainly medical attitudes and skills) and basic clinical performance regarding vital support, fluid therapy and wound care in burn patient care.

OPT164 - ECTS

1.  Acquisition of basic knowledge in the specific field of clinical records and the rights and duties inherent thereto;
2. Understanding of the same knowledge;
3. Application of acquired knowledge;
4. Analysis of this knowledge;
5. A summary of the knowledge acquired, with particular reference to the issues of access, re-use, security of clinical records and data protection of natural persons, as well as the impact of these basic and elementary notions on their practices, even as students of medicine, in the future already as doctors and in the rights of all, sick included;
6. Assessment of knowledge acquisition, understanding and application, analysis and synthesis of knowledge.

MI533 - ECTS

Através de uma integração na atividade do Serviço, pretende-se que os estudantes tenham a perceção dos aspetos específicos da patologia Infeciosas. A complementar esta vivência de prática clínica, serão discutidos diariamente casos clínicos de doentes do Serviço de Doenças Infeciosas (SDI)

MI534 - ECTS

To obtain the clinical history and to perform the objective physical examination, with special incidence in hematological pathology (theoretical and practical teaching of clinical and laboratory semiotics of the haematopoietic system).
To recognise the most common haematological disorders.
Diagnostic orientation in the most common haematological pathologies. To learn how to interpret peripheral blood counts and other routine haematological tests. To allow the students to gain experience with haemato-oncology pathology (acute and chronic leukaemias, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, multiple myeloma, etc) and with fundamental principles of the cytotoxic chemotherapy and with the medical and psychological support to the oncological patient. To recognise and investigate haematological manifestations of systemic diseases. To know the basis of blood transfusion, its indications and potential problems. To learn the basis of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Approach to the patient with solid tumour. Observation of patients with several types of solid tumour. Discussion of physiopathology, molecular basis and clinical behaviour of brest cancer, colonic cancer, gynaecological cancer, urogenital cancer, gastric cancer. tumours of the central nervous system and tumours of head and neck.
Notions on cytotoxic chemotherapy, biologic agents and targeted agents.
Clinico-pathological discussion of cases of leukaemia, lymphoma and solid tumours.

MI538 - ECTS

The objective is to apply the principles of epidemiology to the study of groups of patients.

At the end of the curricular unit the student is expected to be able to:

Assess the effect of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions on clinical outcomes.

Study the determinants and effects of clinical decisions.

Incorporate the results of clinical epidemiologic research into the decision-making process.

To identify the contribution of epidemiology to the quality of health care and patient safety.

OPT98 - ECTS Knowledge and skills to enable them to acquire skills for the performance of tasks related to the propaedeutics, pathology and clinic of essential nosological entities (frequent and / or relevant) of the specialty of Stomatology and Oral Surgery.

OPT198 - ECTS

Personalized medicine is an emerging paradigm in medicine that aims to maximize the benefits of medicines and minimize their adverse effects. For this, the need to develop realistic models will be a fundamental condition to understand the pharmacological responses and limits of heterogeneity. In addition to basic foundations, this UC aims to highlight the best methods for applying personalized drug therapy and provide specific examples about the incorporation of these approaches using specific software.

OPT14 - ECTS In this unit, it is intended to promote social and human development of future physicians through service learning.
To create a space where the student could contact with the reality of society and interact with different types of people helping to better understand the Human Person.
It is intended that the student understand their role in society and become more socially responsible.
It is hoped through this course to contribute to a medical doctor more humane and attentive to social problems.

OPT168 - ECTS

1.  Identification and selection of the different equipment used in medical and scientific photography
2. Basic principles of photography
3. Preparation of photographs for printing or for scientific presentations and scientific papers
4. Management and organization of files and archives
5. Ethical aspects of photography

MI540 - ECTS

To acquire core knowledge in the area.

To learn how to collect clinical information from the history and the objective exam.

To develop diagnostic strategies by appropriate selection of complementary diagnostic aids.

To propose therapies for clinical problems solution.

To maintain a permanent scientific attitude and ethical judgement.

OPT170 - ECTS Explore different ways of experiencing stress;
Assess vulnerability and resilience to stress;
Know ways to reduce stress potential;
Provide resources to deal with stress.
Identify and define burnout; prevention strategies and coping mechanisms
To detect physical and psychological consequences of burnout syndrome
To know the psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions in burnout syndrome

MI531 - ECTS

The general objective of the discipline is the qualification of the student with the theory and the minimal practical skills in Obstetrics and Gynecology, necessary for the clinical clerkship of the 6th year of the medical course, for the continuing medical education and for the development of interest on research.

OPT149 - ECTS

This curricular unit is intended to assist students to increase their awareness of the importance of academic and professional integrity. At the end of this unit students will be able to:

1. Know and apply knowledge about core concepts of ethics and academic and professional integrity
2. Identify academic and professional questionable practices and fraud.
3. Recognize the impact of questionable practices and fraud (fabrication, falsification and plagiarism) on academic and professional integrity
4. Demonstrate compreensive understanding about the process of writing and publish a scientic paper
5. Recognize strategies to promote good conduct practices  

OPT121 - ECTS

To give theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the field of Exercise Medicine, Sports Medicine and Physical Activity, with a clinical and a therapeutical objective.

This unit as the aim of introducing students to the basic knowledge, skills and attitudes in the care of the patient in the field of Sportive Medicine, particularly in what is concerning the practice of the physical activity, its main complications and injuries, and the basic principles of physical activity prescription in health and in disease.

The skills levels required according to the following two main categories are:

1. Levels of kowledge: a. Advanced knowledge, b. Detailed knowledge; c. General awarness

2. Levels of expertise: a. Expert (has scientific knowledge and use all the skills according to the scinentific knowledge and clinical implications); b. Advanced (uses some of the skills; c. Beginner (knows some basic skills)

MI539 - ECTS

General aim: to promote the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes in terms of the medical procedures in forensic medicine, to assure that future physicians will act in a correct and adequate way, in the best interest of their patients and under the terms of the law, when confronted with forensic issues, regardless of the medical specialty they may have, in an interdisciplinary and articulated group mind-set.

Specific aims: the students will acquire skills and competences in dealing with victims and their relatives, in the preparation of electronic death certificates, in the correct management of a corpse - namely its report to forensic autopsy -, in the description of injuries/sequelae and its photographic documentation, in the physical examination of victims (namely in sexual crimes), in the selection, collection, preservation and storage of the different types of evidence and other samples, as well as in signaling and/or reporting alleged crimes.

OPT175 - ECTS In the nursery,operative theatre, post unit care students learn basic anesthesia skills on routine cases under close faculty supervision.Discuss the impact of a patient’s comorbidities on their suitability, readiness and/or medical optimization for anesthesia and surgery. Preoperative preparation of patient, monitoring en-route to OR. Airway management.Interpersonal and communication skills.

MI532 - ECTS

To enable the student in the collection, registration, gestures attitudes and transmission of clinical information (history of the disease, objective examination and complementary examinations) in the areas of Nephrology and Urology, important for the formation of the pluripotential physician. To use the information to diagnose the main nephrological syndromes and urologic pathologies and to establish lists of problems centered on the clinical situation of the patient. To acquire a nucleus of theoretical knowledge that empowers the student in the evaluation and resolution of the most frequent clinical situations in the areas of nephrology and urology and in the elaboration of adequate therapeutic proposals. Enable the student in patient referral and in search of information for decision making.

OPT201 - ECTS

This curricular unit aims to study the surface anatomy of the different regions of the human brain, as well as the recognition of its internal organization, its basic functions and to identify and understand the three-dimensional organization of the brain.

It will allow student to train dissection techniques in order to identify, isolate and preserve nuclei, bundles of nerve fibers in the cerebral hemispheres, brainstem and cerebellum, and also in the cerebral vessels and meninges.

It will also allow the student the ability to establish correlations between morphology and function, to correlate morphology with imaging aspects and to transpose the two-dimensionality to the three-dimensionality of the brain regions under consideration. Different imaging techniques will be used both in the diagnostic of physiological and functional characterization of diseases, as well as in possible therapy and in the evaluation of results.

OPT192 - ECTS

The main goals are the recognition and critical analysis of :

1. Current neurobiological knowledge about the foundations of Mindfulness and presumptive mechanisms of action;
2. Structure of Mindfulness Courses that are fully certified and available worldwide, namely Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (originated at the University of Massachussetts), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (originated at the University of Oxford) and Mindfulness Based Self Compassion (University of Texas). Other cognitive behavioural approaches will be considered (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy);
3. Mindfulness based approaches versus Mindfulness-informed approaches;
4. Scientific research in the area of contemplative neurosciences, namely in mind-body interventions at international universities with scientific publications and proper follow-up;
5. Construction of  personal Mindfulness and Meditation practice.

OPT103 - ECTS

- To guide the learning process regarding most common neurosurgical pathologies (head trauma, brain vascular tumors, spine).

- To promote the practice of patient evaluation, both in outpatient and inpatient clinic, operationg theatre and intensive care.

- Clinical evaluation and orientation of head trauma, namely mild, moderate and severe.

- Clinical evaluation of neurosurgical patients.

- Neurosurgical pathologies in outpatient clinic.

- Essential surgical techinque 

- Essentials of neurointensive care

 

OPT176 - ECTS - Guide the learning of the most common CNS oncology pathology.

- Follow the inpatient and outpatient clinic and operating theater in the different areas of neuro-oncology (Neurosurgery, Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy).

- Contact with the latest surgical evolutions (Neuronavigation system, intra-operative ultrasound, fluorescence guided surgery, awake craniotomies).

- Investigation and laboratorial aspects (Immunology, Genetics, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology).

- To guide the learning of the mostcommon oncological pathology of the CNS (gliomas, meningiomas, brain metastases, pituitary tumors).

- To promote the practice of inpatient and outpatient clinical and operative theater.

- To allow the contact with the most recent evaluations in the different areas of neuro-oncological interventation.

OPT107 - ECTS

Objective- Acquisition of competences (knowledge- ++; attitudes- +++; skills- +) that enable the recognition and adequate referral of the main surgical neonatal nosological entities.

OPT178 - ECTS

1. Educate and empower students with the tools necessary to identify and help patients to cope with the emotional and biological consequences of trauma and monitoring of normal responses;
2. Identify biological mechanisms of the relationship between trauma and physical illness; obesity, metabolic disease and traumatic events; autoimmune diseases and trauma; trauma and cancer;
3. Develop skills to identify acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder;

Increase the knowledge of resources and technical support to provide patients with traumatic experiences at risk of developing psychological and physical disorders; to learn the different therapeutic approaches in trauma response disorders.

MI536 - ECTS

1. To deepen the skills of clinical exploration and evaluation of Psychiatric Pathology.
2. To develop skills and critical attitude that allow deconstructing of the different mechanisms involved in the genesis of psychopathological processes and consequently the different forms of clinical presentation.
3. To deepen the knowledge of the major psychiatric syndromes in adequacy to their epidemiological framework.
4. To understand the different forms of therapeutic intervention (pharmacological, psychological, and social) and their combination in different clinical presentations. Also, to understand the indications for referral to specialized psychiatric services in different psychopathological situations, as well as the follow-up in psychosocial rehabilitation and community intervention.
5. To develop an integrated perspective of the different concepts of Psychiatric Pathology essential for understanding the psychopathological processes in the clinical context.

MI543 - ECTS To properly understand imaging modalities, the clinical indication of imaging studies, as well as to intuitively understand their impact in the clinical setting based upon "clinical-radiological vignettes".

OPT110 - ECTS General approach to the various aspects of prenatal screening and diagnosis(epidemiological, clinical, genetic, technical, economic and artistic).

OPT30 - ECTS

This curricular unit is intended to assist medical students to increase their awareness of stress and its deleterious effects on health. At the end of this unit students will be able to:

 

1. Recognize the impact of stress on modern life and health

2. Identify the major mediators involved in stress response

3. Understand the physiological responses to different types of stressors

4. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of core stress knowledge

5. Recognize the underlying abnormalities causing metabolic syndrome features

6. Identify stress related diseases

7. Recognize the main human and animal experimental models, and biomarkers, to study stress

8. Recognize various strategies to cope with stress

OPT116 - ECTS

1. Identification, diagnosis and treatment of the most common conditions observed in an Ophthalmological emergency room
2. Identification of severe conditions that require referral of these patients

OPT155 - ECTS The curricular unit aims to introduce students to the field of Therapeutic Adherence, considering all the stakeholders involved in this problem, and allowing a clear comprehension of all dimensions of patient adherence, patient and condition related factors, treatment related factors, socioeconomic factors, health care system factors and health care professional factors. The curricular unit intends to increase the knowledge of General Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, allowing for an integrative understanding of the factors inherent to the behavior of therapeutic adherence and the acquisition of specific competencies for current and future clinical practice in the various medicine areas.      

The unit will have four main objectives: to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the nature and extent of adherence based on evidence of non-adherence behavior challenges faced by patients; b) to enable students to identify opportunities for adherence that effectively contribute to the results of established therapeutics and reduce the use of health resources; c) to provide students with a structured approach for assessment of therapeutic adherence; d) to empower students on acquisition and training of consultations skills to support behavioral change in the direction of therapeutic adherence.  

Overall, the knowledge acquired in the curricular unit will serve to gain in-depth contact with a previously neglected area of health sciences, despite its recognition by WHO as one of the most common problems faced by the management of chronic diseases.  At the same time, it will provide medical students with competencies to develop a mediating role between clinical practice and therapeutic outcomes for the patient, which will go along with their future clinical activity.

OPT127 - ECTS Over the last decades the crisis of the Welfare State in European countries led to a different approach with regards healthcare access. Indeed, the economic and financial lack of sustainability of most healthcare systems is a major social and political concern. In this context, the traditional practice of Medicine must be reframed in accordance with the traditional principles of medical ethics – beneficence and non-maleficence – the fundamental values of modern democracies – equity in the access to social goods – but also taking into consideration cost-containment in healthcare. In this vein, the scarcity of resources implies that the medical decision-making process is also determined by opportunity cost criteria. That is, the balance of the sacrifices that will be imposed to other patients by medical decisions. Therefore, medical education should include the basic principles of hospital management that are a determinant for good clinical practice.

OPT157 - ECTS

Some of the unique aspects of cadaveric dissection include the realistic nature of this teaching medium, which allows students to get a clear three-dimensional picture of the organization of the human body, to check for variations in normality, to analyze the texture of human tissues, and sometimes , observe and understand pathological conditions. 

Besides being arguably an important method of learning anatomy, it reinforces the attitudes of respect and compassion among medical students. 

It also allows to learn dissection techniques and acquire manual dexterity, fundamental for all future doctors. 

It also enables students to develop critical thinking, problem solving and practical application of knowledge.

MI535 - ECTS

1. Integrate into the general training of future physicians the notions of real-time actuation and continuous surveillance of vital functions in Anesthesia, Perioperative Care, Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine;
2. Contribute to the acquisition of knowledge and life-saving basic skills, particularly in situations of peri-arrest and severe trauma;
3. Recognize the critical patient and understand the process of receipt, stabilization, diagnosis and initial therapy and screening of level of care (II and III) of the emergent acute or acute patient;
4. Understand the methodologies of organic support of the critical patient;
5. Foster the capacity for multidisciplinary integration of knowledge about patients, particularly in situations of non-cooperation, as well as the capacity to transmit information;
6. Make known the scope of the professional practice of Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine as a contribution to the informed choice of your future medical professional career.

OPT02 - ECTS

• Explain the need for anthropological reflection for an integral understanding of medicine and for the practice of humanized medicine.

• Acquire the ability to adopt a professional practice that values and safeguards the systemic centrality of the Person, as a cultural and social subject, in the different healthcare processes.

• Show the anthropological horizon of the Medical Act and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.

• Acquire or deepen awareness of the meaning and implications of the human being - who is a subject - being the object of medicine and recognise the anthropological character of medicine as a science and as a praxis.

• Show the contribution that Medical Anthropology, in the complementarity of the two currents that converge in it, philosophical and cultural (Medical Anthropology), offers to medical culture, in the face of the emerging challenges of biomedical and techno-scientific developments, in order to improve the efficiency and humanisation of health programmes and services.

• Learn to recognise the diversity of perspectives on Man in relationship with health and illness, in a context of multi-culturalism, as an integral element in the humanisation of medicine.

• Exemplify some situations in which anthropological data becomes particularly relevant for an appropriate therapeutic approach (Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Ethnic minorities, Migrant populations).

OPT158 - ECTS Componente pratica de artroscopia

OPT89 - ECTS To develop the knowledge, skills and competency needed for the routine management of labour and delivery, including management of the main complications that occur during this period.

OPT160 - ECTS

1. Define the concepts and dimensions associated with stress, burnout and self-care;
2. Recognize the structural characteristics of health organizations and their consequences for the development of conditions that foster emotional exhaustion;
3. Recognize protective and vulnerability factors associated with the burnout experience;
4. Develop self-management skills that empower self-care.

OPT161 - ECTS - To allow contact with a minimally invasive surgery technique, current and with great potential for progression and future prospects (1).
- To learn the anatomy and common neurosurgical pathology amenable to endoscopic treatment/approach (2).
- To promote the contact with the technique in the operating room and also with the patient (both in outpatient and inpatient clinic, pre-operative and post-operative evaluation) (3).

OPT162 - ECTS - Learn about the most frequent spine diseases in clinical practice and their semiology.
- Make a rational use of ancillary diagnostic exams.
- Practice clinical managment of patients with spine related complains.
- Recognize the clinical conditions that require surgical treatment and their priority.
- Be acquainted with the most common spinal surgical procedures.

OPT118 - ECTS Clinical training and practical application of acquired knowledge, contributing to vertical teaching, comprising semiology, pre-operative preparation, surgical therapy and post-operative follow-up in the most frequent occurrences in Obesity Surgery.

OPT119 - ECTS It will consist of clinical training with the practical application of knowledge acquired in the years before, in a contribution to teaching in a vertical way and encompassing semiology, semiotics and surgical therapy of the most frequent situations in Ambulatory Surgery and Central Block

OPT183 - ECTS Clinical training and practical application of acquired knowledge, contributing to vertical teaching, comprising semiology, pre-operative preparation, surgical therapy and post-operative follow-up in the most frequent occurrences in Oesophagogastroduodenal Surgery.

OPT120 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective, of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent laparoscopic surgery situations.

OPT92 - ECTS ·       To know the different pathologies in Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Maxillofacial Surgery;·        To know basic concepts in Plastic Surgery;·        Identify different surgical treatments for each pathology.

MI537 - ECTS

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

The students should be able to:

• Be able to establish effective communication with children, their families, and caregivers and respect their culture and beliefs.
• Demonstrate empathetic and compassionate communication.
• Recognize the importance of Ethics in pediatrics, including patient confidentiality, informed consent, and respect for autonomy, and involve parents or guardians in decision-making 
• Demonstrate professionalism in interactions with patients, families, and colleagues.
• Work effectively within interdisciplinary teams, including nurses, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals involved in pediatric care.
• Develop skills in obtaining a comprehensive pediatric history, including prenatal and birth history.
• Perform accurate and age-appropriate physical examinations of pediatric patients.
• Understand pediatric pathophysiology of the common diseases pediatric 
• Apply critical thinking skills to analyze clinical findings and develop appropriate management plans for pediatric patients.
• Understand the principles for prescribing in pediatrics
• Develop skills in self-directed learning, including the ability to seek and critically appraise relevant medical literature.
• Know how to search evidence-based guidelines and keep updated on the best practices for diagnosis, treatment, and management of common pediatric conditions.
• Incorporate evidence-based medicine principles in clinical decision-making.
• Be able to implement preventive measures in children and adolescents including:
• Assessing nutritional needs at different stages of childhood, promoting breastfeeding, weaning, and introduction of solid foods.
• Advice children, families and the community in healthy lifestyles
• Advice on immunizations, including on efficacy and safety, and promote adhesion to national vaccination guidelines
• Advice on prevention of intoxications and injuries 
• Follow the recommendations of the Child Health Book
• Evaluate the growth and nutrition status of children
• Recognize and manage common nutritional disorders, such as malnutrition, obesity, and feeding difficulties.
• Evaluate development milestones and recognize red flags and know how to refer developmental delays, learning disabilities, and behavioral disorders in children.
• Be able to take care of the newborn in the delivery room
• Identify common congenital malformations, includind congenital cardiac and urinary tract malformations
• Identify and treat frequent neonatal diseases
• Recognize, diagnose, manage and treat common acute and chronic illnesses encountered in pediatric practice, including respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infections, exanthematic diseases, allergies, and asthma
• Understand the principles of pediatric emergency care 
• Recognize and be able to start the initial management of pediatric emergencies, including respiratory distress, seizures, anaphylaxis, and provide basic life support 
• Obtain and interpret the semiology of common diseases that require surgical care;
• Recognize the conditions for surgical referral in a timely manner
• Adjust the generic surgical principles to the child, attendind to the  pathophysiology
• Integrate the principles of decision-making and the operative chronology in Pediatric Surgery
• Understand biopsychosocial implications of surgical interventions in children

 

OPT95 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent coloproctologic situations.

MI541 - ECTS

After completing this curricular unit, students may be able to: - Management of frequent clinical scenarios (for example: chest pain, dyspnea, abdominal pain, digestive bleeding, altered state of consciousness and acid-base disturbances), taking into account information on patients’ signs and symptoms, diagnostic results and and therapeutic institution -Execution of essential medical procedures (thoracentesis, paracentesis, lumbar puncture, electrocardiogram, venous and arterial blood sampling, nasogastric intubation, urinary catheterization, wound sutures) - Systematic analysis of electrocardiograms; basics of ultrasound and echocardiography (point of care ultrasonography) - Basic identification of surgical material; wound assessment (classification, healing and therapeutic options); surgical drains and type of drains; ostomies (indications, classification and complications) - Perioperative care and invasive peri-procedures (including notions of fluid therapy)

OPT76 - ECTS To acquire competence (mainly medical attitudes and skills) and basic clinical performance regarding vital support, fluid therapy and wound care in burn patient care.

OPT164 - ECTS

1.  Acquisition of basic knowledge in the specific field of clinical records and the rights and duties inherent thereto;
2. Understanding of the same knowledge;
3. Application of acquired knowledge;
4. Analysis of this knowledge;
5. A summary of the knowledge acquired, with particular reference to the issues of access, re-use, security of clinical records and data protection of natural persons, as well as the impact of these basic and elementary notions on their practices, even as students of medicine, in the future already as doctors and in the rights of all, sick included;
6. Assessment of knowledge acquisition, understanding and application, analysis and synthesis of knowledge.

OPT246 - ECTS

MI533 - ECTS Através de uma integração na atividade do Serviço, pretende-se que os estudantes tenham a perceção dos aspetos específicos da patologia Infeciosas. A complementar esta vivência de prática clínica, serão discutidos diariamente casos clínicos de doentes do Serviço de Doenças Infeciosas (SDI)

MI534 - ECTS To obtain the clinical history and to perform the objective physical examination, with special incidence in hematological pathology (theoretical and practical teaching of clinical and laboratory semiotics of the haematopoietic system).
To recognise the most common haematological disorders.
Diagnostic orientation in the most common haematological pathologies. To learn how to interpret peripheral blood counts and other routine haematological tests. To allow the students to gain experience with haemato-oncology pathology (acute and chronic leukaemias, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, multiple myeloma, etc) and with fundamental principles of the cytotoxic chemotherapy and with the medical and psychological support to the oncological patient. To recognise and investigate haematological manifestations of systemic diseases. To know the basis of blood transfusion, its indications and potential problems. To learn the basis of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Approach to the patient with solid tumour. Observation of patients with several types of solid tumour. Discussion of physiopathology, molecular basis and clinical behaviour of brest cancer, colonic cancer, gynaecological cancer, urogenital cancer, gastric cancer. tumours of the central nervous system and tumours of head and neck.
Notions on cytotoxic chemotherapy, biologic agents and targeted agents.
Clinico-pathological discussion of cases of leukaemia, lymphoma and solid tumours.

MI538 - ECTS

The objective is to apply the principles of epidemiology to the study of groups of patients.

At the end of the curricular unit the student is expected to be able to:

Assess the effect of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions on clinical outcomes.

Study the determinants and effects of clinical decisions.

Incorporate the results of clinical epidemiologic research into the decision-making process.

To identify the contribution of epidemiology to the quality of health care and patient safety.

OPT98 - ECTS Knowledge and skills to enable them to acquire skills for the performance of tasks related to the propaedeutics, pathology and clinic of essential nosological entities (frequent and / or relevant) of the specialty of Stomatology and Oral Surgery.

OPT198 - ECTS Personalized medicine is an emerging paradigm in medicine that aims to maximize the benefits of medicines and minimize their adverse effects. For this, the need to develop realistic models will be a fundamental condition to understand the pharmacological responses and limits of heterogeneity. In addition to basic foundations, this UC aims to highlight the best methods for applying personalized drug therapy and provide specific examples about the incorporation of these approaches using specific software.

OPT14 - ECTS In this unit, it is intended to promote social and human development of future physicians through service learning.
To create a space where the student could contact with the reality of society and interact with different types of people helping to better understand the Human Person.
It is intended that the student understand their role in society and become more socially responsible.
It is hoped through this course to contribute to a medical doctor more humane and attentive to social problems.

OPT168 - ECTS

1.  Identification and selection of the different equipment used in medical and scientific photography
2. Basic principles of photography
3. Preparation of photographs for printing or for scientific presentations and scientific papers
4. Management and organization of files and archives
5. Ethical aspects of photography

MI540 - ECTS

To acquire core knowledge in the area.

To learn how to collect clinical information from the history and the objective exam.

To develop diagnostic strategies by appropriate selection of complementary diagnostic aids.

To propose therapies for clinical problems solution.

To maintain a permanent scientific attitude and ethical judgement.

OPT169 - ECTS

1. To deepen knowledge of the main clinical manifestations, as well as the epidemiological framework in the area of Geriatric Psychiatry.
2. To increase the skills of exploration and assessment in Geriatric Psychiatry.
3. To develop the ability and critical attitude that allows students to deconstruct the different mechanisms involved in the genesis of neurodegenerative processes and consequently understand their different clinical presentations.
4. To understand the different types of pharmacological, psychological, and social intervention (institutional and multidisciplinary network).
5. To know how to apply the concepts of Evidence-Based Medicine in the area of Geriatric Psychiatry and develop an integrative perspective of the different concepts of Geriatric Psychiatry.     

OPT41 - ECTS Provide knowledge and stimulate the development of basic surgical skills leading to correct clinical performances.

MI531 - ECTS

The general objective of the discipline is the qualification of the student with the theory and the minimal practical skills in Obstetrics and Gynecology, necessary for the clinical clerkship of the 6th year of the medical course, for the continuing medical education and for the development of interest on research.

OPT101 - ECTS

OPT102 - ECTS To provide future medical doctors who may come to work in urgent medical care settings in their future, with knowledge, skills and atitudes that garantee a proper perfomance of clinical gestures with forensic character which are adequate from a technical, ethical and legal point of view. Their intervention, if adequate, may be decisive in the best interest of patiens.

MI539 - ECTS

General aim: to promote the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes in terms of the medical procedures in forensic medicine, to assure that future physicians will act in a correct and adequate way, in the best interest of their patients and under the terms of the law, when confronted with forensic issues, regardless of the medical specialty they may have, in an interdisciplinary and articulated group mind-set.

Specific aims: the students will acquire skills and competences in dealing with victims and their relatives, in the preparation of electronic death certificates, in the correct management of a corpse - namely its report to forensic autopsy -, in the description of injuries/sequelae and its photographic documentation, in the physical examination of victims (namely in sexual crimes), in the selection, collection, preservation and storage of the different types of evidence and other samples, as well as in signaling and/or reporting alleged crimes.

OPT175 - ECTS In the nursery,operative theatre, post unit care students learn basic anesthesia skills on routine cases under close faculty supervision.Discuss the impact of a patient’s comorbidities on their suitability, readiness and/or medical optimization for anesthesia and surgery. Preoperative preparation of patient, monitoring en-route to OR. Airway management.Interpersonal and communication skills.

MI532 - ECTS

To enable the student in the collection, registration, gestures attitudes and transmission of clinical information (history of the disease, objective examination and complementary examinations) in the areas of Nephrology and Urology, important for the formation of the pluripotential physician. To use the information to diagnose the main nephrological syndromes and urologic pathologies and to establish lists of problems centered on the clinical situation of the patient. To acquire a nucleus of theoretical knowledge that empowers the student in the evaluation and resolution of the most frequent clinical situations in the areas of nephrology and urology and in the elaboration of adequate therapeutic proposals. Enable the student in patient referral and in search of information for decision making.

OPT192 - ECTS

The main goals are the recognition and critical analysis of :

1. Current neurobiological knowledge about the foundations of Mindfulness and presumptive mechanisms of action;
2. Structure of Mindfulness Courses that are fully certified and available worldwide, namely Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (originated at the University of Massachussetts), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (originated at the University of Oxford) and Mindfulness Based Self Compassion (University of Texas). Other cognitive behavioural approaches will be considered (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy);
3. Mindfulness based approaches versus Mindfulness-informed approaches;
4. Scientific research in the area of contemplative neurosciences, namely in mind-body interventions at international universities with scientific publications and proper follow-up;
5. Construction of  personal Mindfulness and Meditation practice.

OPT103 - ECTS

• To guide the learning process regarding most common neurosurgical pathologies (head trauma, brain vascular tumors, spine)
• To promote the practice of patient evaluation, both in outpatient and inpatient clinic, operationg theatre and intensive care.
• Clinical evaluation and orientation of head trauma, namely mild, moderate and severe.
• Clinical evaluation of neurosurgical patients.
• - Neurosurgical pathologies in outpatient clinic.

• Essential surgical techinque

•  

  Essentials of neurointensive care

OPT82 - ECTS To be able to value the importance of the right laboratory test to each individual patient according to its own particular situation and the phase of the disease, knowing also the main causes of analytical variability and developing critical reasoning in relation to the data coming from the clinical laboratory.

OPT108 - ECTS

To prepare the student for the resolution of most basic problems of a Family Planning consultation, in order to make him able to integrate primary health care teams, namely in the context of the support of unfavoured national and international communities. To provide the student with deeper knowledge and experience in the clinical area of the optional discipline, in order to make him more able to decide if he wants to pursue a career in this area.
The student should be able to develop competencies regarding:
- the understanding of the importance of Family Planning in the promotion of health and quality of life;
- the screening, diagnosis, medical treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and gynaecologic cancer;
- the detailed knowledge about the prescription of the most common conceptive and contraceptive methods;
- non directive counselling;
- legislation.

MI536 - ECTS

The general objectives of this Curricular Unit (CU) are:

1. To deepen the skills of clinical exploration and evaluation of Psychiatric Pathology.
2. To develop skills and critical attitude that allow deconstructing of the different mechanisms involved in the genesis of psychopathological processes and consequently the different forms of clinical presentation.
3. To deepen the knowledge of the major psychiatric syndromes in adequacy to their epidemiological framework.
4. To understand the different forms of therapeutic intervention (pharmacological, psychological, and social) and their combination in different clinical presentations. Also, to understand the indications for referral to specialized psychiatric services in different psychopathological situations, as well as the follow-up in psychosocial rehabilitation and community intervention.

To develop an integrated perspective of the different concepts of Psychiatric Pathology essential for understanding the psychopathological processes in the clinical context

MI543 - ECTS To properly understand imaging modalities, the clinical indication of imaging studies, as well as to intuitively understand their impact in the clinical setting based upon "clinical-radiological vignettes".

OPT72 - ECTS

To understand the context of clinical decision support system, including their characteristics, requirements, components, evolution, functioning, evaluation, success factors, and risks and challenges for health professionals.

OPT30 - ECTS

This curricular unit is intended to assist medical students to increase their awareness of stress and its deleterious effects on health. At the end of this unit students will be able to:

 

1. Recognize the impact of stress on modern life and health

2. Identify the major mediators involved in stress response

3. Understand the physiological responses to different types of stressors

4. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of core stress knowledge

5. Recognize the underlying abnormalities causing metabolic syndrome features

6. Identify stress related diseases

7. Recognize the main human and animal experimental models, and biomarkers, to study stress

8. Recognize various strategies to cope with stress

OPT180 - ECTS

1 – Recognize  the main criteria’s for decision making

2 – Recognize the decision making natural handicaps in professional work

3 – Recognize the importance of making decisions based in the patient best interest and not in the professional personal perspective

4 – Recognize the importance of evidence based decision making

5 – Understand the decision making particular differences after different clinical settings

6 – Recognize the main dimensions of medical practice

7 – Understand the limits of autonomous choices

8 – Become a more autonomous professional

OPT133 - ECTS

OPT125 - ECTS

Grasp fundamental concepts of diagnosis and treatment of the most common pathologies in the field of sports traumatology.

Integrate this knowledge and explore the possibilities for scientific research in these subjects.

OPT116 - ECTS

1. Identification, diagnosis and treatment of the most common conditions observed in an Ophthalmological emergency room
2. Identification of severe conditions that require referral of these patients

OPT117 - ECTS

Prepare the student to solve most of the basic problems of a Urogynecology 
consultation, imparting knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the pelvic
floor, the diagnosis and treatment of urogynecologic pathology and 
pelvic floor dysfunction, particularly genital prolapse and urinary 
incontinence.

OPT134 - ECTS The student should be able to:

 - Recognize the role and impact of urological diseases in child;

 - Assimilate the main clinical pictures in Pediatric Urology;

 - Establish a diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic guidance in relevant pediatric urological diseases.

MI630 - ECTS

This curricular unit, based on specific knowledge and / or acquired over the Integrated Master Medicine Course, aims to give specific skills to develop a research project in an area of interest. 

 

OPT244 - ECTS To develop the knowledge, skills and competency needed for the routine management of labour and delivery, including management of the main complications that occur during this period.

OPT208 - ECTS

- Learn about the principles for managing a patient with degenerative pathology of the spine

- Know technical options for the surgical treatment of patients with spinal pathology

- Know less invasive treatment options for these patients

OPT210 - ECTS

Clinical training applying previous knowledge, in a vertical perspective, of the global learning of semiologic, semiotic and therapeutical surgery, in the most frequent laparoscopic surgery situations.

MI629 - ECTS

Aquisition of competences (knowledegment +, attitudes ++. skills +++) that enable basic clinical performance in Surgery.

OPT212 - ECTS This Curricular Unit aims to provide students with knowledge on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the most frequent and/or relevant vascular pathologies. Therefore, students should develop the essential skills and competencies to provide patients with the correct treatment. 
In order to provide the aforementioned skills it will be adopted an integrated medical-surgical, therapeutic and imagiological approach

MI636 - ECTS

The learning objectives of this curricular unit are to ensure that the medical student can carry out a professional, ethical and humane clinical practice, for the patient and his/her family, in the field of palliative care. To recognize their personal attitudes, values and expectations regarding death and individual, cultural and spiritual diversity, and to be trained with the basic concepts of palliative care in order to integrate them into an individualized plan for the patient and family / caregiver. To exerce their function with rigor and technical-scientific knowledge.

To recognize the role of primary health care as the first contact, promoting palliative care and person-centered care. Given the aging of the population and the increase in chronic and complex diseases, it is essential to improve the effectiveness of the health system. To acquire basic competencies in palliative care health management. 

To acquire knowledge in the clinical domain of palliative care, specifically with regard to common symptoms, different types of palliative intervention in terminally ill patients, emergency situations and even in the final stage. Emphasizing the dichotomy between palliation and curative treatment.

OPT217 - ECTS

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

- To provide knowledge and practical training that enables the ability to intervene in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of stroke and related diseases

- To provide practical training in the assessment of patients, application of clinical scales and rational discussion of the best clinical guidance for specific cases

- Practical application of updated international Recommendations ("guidelines")

- Acquisition of the notion of multidisciplinarity and the need for a chain-based approach to stroke patients, focusing on the Stroke Code

- To recognize a stroke in an emergency context and its differential diagnoses

- To contact with the complementary investigation adapted to each case, and with the interpretation of parenchymal and vascular imaging

- To contact with emerging interventions, namely arterial recanalization by thrombolysis, intervention neuroradiology, neurosurgery, neuromonitoring and rehabilitation approaches

OPT216 - ECTS Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
- To provide knowledge and pratical trainingin main inflammatory diseases that affect the central and peropheral nervous system.

- Recognize neurological manifestations of demyelinating/inflammatory diseases, with pratical training in subspecialty outpatient clinic.

- Pratical applicationof updated international Recommendations ("guidelines").

- Learn multidisciplinary clinical intervention strategies in demyelinating/inflammatory disease.

- To provide knowledge in main areas of research in neuroimmunology

- Learn to integrate biomarkers in clinical decision.

- Contact with results of complementary diagnostic exams in the clinical practice of patients wih demyelinating/inflammatory diseases of the nervous system.

- Contact with therapeutic discussion, approaches with drugs that modify the natural history of the disease.

OPT218 - ECTS

OPT240 - ECTS

OPT247 - ECTS

OPT219 - ECTS

OPT194 - ECTS

MI631 - ECTS

The main objective is to introduce the medical student into general obstetrical and gynecological clinical practice.

The preferred areas are the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent pathologies and obstetric and gynecological emergencies.

 

OPT243 - ECTS

OPT223 - ECTS

OPT224 - ECTS

MI632 - ECTS

To introduce the students to the atmosphere of modern General Practice, in the teams of Primary Health Care, in epidemiology, consultation and practice of Medicine in this context; Expose the students to the appropriate context for them to learn the foundations of Public Health, prevention, screening of the early diseases diagnosis and of health promotion; Study of the community aspects of pediatrics, mental health, obstetrics, women’s health, psycho-social medicine and geriatrics care; To develop the students’ capacities to work independently, be it in a clinic, be it in self-education; To develop professional attitudes toward improving health care leading to good working relationships; Enlarge their experience in ethical subjects, in communication skills and in evidence based on clinical practice.

OPT225 - ECTS In the nursery,operative theatre, post unit care students learn basic anesthesia skills on routine cases under close faculty supervision.Discuss the impact of a patient’s comorbidities on their suitability, readiness and/or medical optimization for anesthesia and surgery. Preoperative preparation of patient, monitoring en-route to OR. Airway management.Interpersonal and communication skills.

MI628 - ECTS

During the internship, the student must acquire capacity and progressive autonomy in the application of the clinical method, in the context of addressing pathologies within the scope of Internal Medicine, integrating knowledge and information and making decisions, in a tutored manner. The student should acquire experience in establishing performance priorities and improve his/her relationship with patients, their families, other professionals in the health team. He/she should acquire experience in the use of information technologies, and present and discuss selected clinical cases in seminars.

OPT230 - ECTS

OPT231 - ECTS

- Clinical learning (patient history, differential diagnosis)

Evaluation scales and therapeutic protocols and guidelines. Medical patient1h/sem -family communication.

OPT233 - ECTS

• Recognition and management of the most frequent neurological disorders in clinical practice (epilepsy, headache, dementia, movement disorders)
• Approach and management of neurological emergencies (including cerebrovascular diseases).
• Recognition and management of the main signs and symptoms (semiology) of neurological disorders
• Perform clinical assessment and the neurological examination to a person presenting with neurological symptoms.
• Acquire clinical skills relevant to the management of patients admitted to the ward, outpatient consult and emergency department.  

OPT234 - ECTS

In this internship, students accompanied teachers in their clinical activities. Its activities will be distributed between external clinics, ophthalmology emergency and the operating theater.

Whether in clinics or in theater, the activity will be diversified into various medical and surgical subspecialties

OPT235 - ECTS

MI633 - ECTS

Learning objectives - knowledge, skills and competences (cognitive, affective and psycho-motor domains) to be developed by the students:

General objectives: Improvement of knowledge, attitudes and skills which allow the student to provide child health-care in a familial and social environment.

Specific objectives:
Development of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes on growth and development; familial, social and community issues; nutritional needs according to age; prevention by vaccination; promotion of heathy life styles; social child protection and health-care network.

Students must learn to diagnose and to treat common child diseases; to screen and refer rare diseases; to provide health-care in urgent situation; to recognize the disease impact on the child and his family.

In summary, the student must have knowledge and skills in order:

To communicate with patients, their families and other health professionals

To perform anamnesis and clinical examination in different age groups

To decide if/which diagnostic tests should be chosen 

To discuss differential diagnosis 

To perform current diagnostic tests and treatments

To make appropriate therapeutic decisions

To follow the child 

To bear always in mind ethics behavior.

MI634 - ECTS

The overall objective of this CU is the application and development of supervised clinical practice of knowledge, skills and attitudes previously acquired in the Psychiatric Mental Health course in the 5^th year, with particular emphasis on clinical and preventive aspects. It is organized in professional training blocks, which include tutorial practice.

The objective in the area of knowledge is to extend the topics covered in the 5^th year programme, applying them to clinical practice through tutorial monitoring of people with psychiatric disorders, developing individual capacities to carry out medical practice with increasing responsibility and autonomy.

The objectives in the field of skills include the ability development of presentation of clinical cases with autonomy in observation of a psychiatric patient, doing a clinical history and conducting an examination, establishing a diagnosis, differential diagnosis, prognosis and proposal of therapeutic orientation. It also includes bibliographic research capacity and analysis of scientific evidence.

It is also important to raise interns' awareness to aspects of the function and organization of the structure of the National Health Service, and in particular, the organization of mental health care in Portugal.

The objectives in the field of attitudes should value the communication capacity and the integration in teamwork with multidisciplinary collaboration, with particular emphasis on family, social, psychological, vocational / educational and medical-legal components of the mental illness framework.

One should also appreciate the need for to motivate and to strengthen the scientific basis of clinical decision-making, the methodology of self-learning and continuing education as well as the transmission of knowledge to medical students. Regular cooperation between students in scientific projects will be desirable, instilling an investigative approach early in their career.

MI635 - ECTS This curricular unit aims to promote students' contact with Health from a community/population perspective and with the practice of this medical specialty. This contact will allow students to understand the scope of the Public Health intervention, the strategies and tools used, and recognize their relevance in health promotion and disease prevention, in dialogue with other medical specialties, entities, and citizens.

This curricular unit complements the curricular path that, throughout the Integrated Master of Medicine, included, among others, theoretical and practical training in Population Health, General Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

OPT237 - ECTS

- Patient assessment based on history and physical examination, use of appropriate examinations and laboratory tests

- Evaluation of ASA physical status

- Minimum monitoring standards during sedation procedures

- Preparation of the workplace according to relevant checklists and environmental safety measures

- Aseptic techniques for invasive procedures including peripheral venous access, arterial blood gas collection

- Observation performing sedation.

 - Anaesthesia and sedation outside the OR, taking into account organization of the site, type of procedures and patients

 - Application of principles of safety during X-ray, MRI

OPT238 - ECTS