In the Functional Assessment and training control has as main goal to conduct the learning of theoretic and practical methodology for the athletes’ evaluation in its physiological components, optimizing their abilities and performance.

The Bionergética course aims to provide students with knowledge to understand i) the exercise as a major disrupter vehicle of organic homeostasis, ii) the different metabolic changes in recruited skeletal muscle and in the homeostatic regulatory systems, resulting in different variants physical exercise and iii) the mechanisms underlying muscle skeletal phenotypic changes induced by physical training.

The Cardiology curricular unit aims to develop clinical abilities for the diagnostic and treatment of the most prevalent cardiac diseases in the sportive population. The main topics that will be addressed are: electrocardiography – main principles, criteria and mini-course; the normal ECG and the most frequent variants in young people and athletes – common (benign) and uncommon (abnormal) patterns; ECG interpretation; genetic testing in cardiology; imagiology; syncope; echography in sports medicine; genetics and cardiovascular diseases; importance of medical counseling; sudden death during sport activity; stress test and Holter; contraindications of sport practice.

In the Physiology in Exercise curricular unit it will be addressed topics from different areas of the physiology in exercise and concrete situations from the professional practice in sports medicine. So, this unit intends to provide to the students theoretic and practical knowledge that will allow them to have a more informed professional intervention in sports medicine.

In the curricular unit of Sports Nutrition knowledge around nutritional and metabolic areas, considered necessary for the educational formation in Sports Medicine, will be transmitted. The main topics that will be discussed are: interaction between nutrition, genes and exercise; energetic balance; amino acids and protein metabolism for exercise; fat, health and performance; athletes’ carbon hydrates needs; fluids and electrolytes; micronutrients and sports nutritional periodization; environmental physiological challenges (temperature, humidity, height, jet lag); special population (religion, vegetarianism, etc.); teenager and female athletes particularities; food supplements and ergogenic substances.

Exercise as a therapy. Patient evaluation. General principles of exercise prescription. Exercise and diseases (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, obesity…).

The main aims of the Sports Psychology curricular unit are the following: to know areas and domains of Psychology application in the different sportive contexts, to know the main psychologic factors involved in the sports’ performance, to know psychologic effects of physical exercise in high competition and recreation sport situations and to know psychologic intervention strategies in sport lesions.