Introduction to Medicine I: Theory of Medicine

Code:

MI104

Acronym:

IMED1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://sbim.med.up.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=269&Itemid=411&lang=pt
Responsible unit:	Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	305	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina 2007	1	-	5	50	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The practice of Medicine, based on diagnosis, therapeutics and disease prevention, is increasingly demanding in terms of scientific methods and technologies of acquisition, storage, processing, analysis, transmission, assessment methods and assessment of medical knowledge. Introduction to Medicine I and II subjects, aim to motivate students to these methods and technologies so that as future medical doctors, they will have greater facility (a) to continuous learning, a crucial condition for their basic, specialized and continuous professional development; (b) to be aware of the attitudes and tools for the medical research, so important to the advancement of medical knowledge; (c) to be able to make assessments, essential for the medical audit and the continuous improvement of the health care quality; (d) to share the divulgation of information and communication among health professionals and patients; (e) to develop skills in decision making, a constant requirement for the individual in the social context of medical practice; (f) to promote an empathetic manner, the main quality of doctor-patient and inter professional relationships. Introduction to Medicine I: theory of Medicine course will teach theoretical foundations of Medical practice with focus on History of Medicine topics, Bioethics and Research Methodology in Health. Introduction to Medicine II: Health Information course will teach several topics on Biostatistics and Medical Informatics.

Students should be able to discuss the importance of basic historic, ethical and scientific foundations in the medical practice. They also should be able to identify, describe and discuss the principal components of a research protocol.

Program

History of Medicine – Medicine, a limitless heritage; health and disease over past and present; the great periods of Portuguese Medicine; history of Anatomy and Surgery; the evolution of surgical tools

Bioethics – basic concepts and definitions; ethics in health care; the doctor-patient relationship and its specificities, the rights and obligations of both intervenient; medical responsibility: its limits and implications; experiments on human beings: ethics committees; distributive justice and health priorities.

Research Methodology – Science and medicine; the clinical method – prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis; Health System organization; the scientific method – historical and operational perspective applied to medicine; research question formulation; bibliographic search; study design; methods and instruments for data collection; participants selection methods; reproducibility and validity of measures; research protocols; measures of disease frequency and association in biomedical research; reproducibility and validity of measures; systematic and random errors; validity and precision in scientific research; publication and interpretation of research result; data processing and management, including codification, data entry and preparation; project planning and management; data flow diagrams; algorithms; evaluation of diagnostic tests; evidence synthesis studies - systematic reviews and meta-analysis; probability and decision; decision support systems.

Mandatory literature

Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah Grady Norman Hearst, Thomas B. Newman; Designing Clinical Research, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006
Daniel Serrão, Rui Nunes; Ética em Cuidados de Saúde, Porto Editora, 1999
Amélia Ricon Ferraz; Análise da Estrutura e Forma dos Instrumentos Cirúrgicos. O Contributo Português desde o Séc. XVII ao Séc. XX, Medisa Edições e Divulgações Científicas, 1996
Lyons AS, Petrucelli RJ; Medicine: An Illustrated History, New York: Abrams, 1978
Maximiliano Lemos; História da Medicina em Portugal: Doutrinas e Instituições, Publicações D. Quixote/Ordem dos Médicos, 1991
Beaucham TL, Childress JF; Principles of Biomedical Ethics , Oxford University Press, 1994

Teaching methods and learning activities

50 contact hours; 3 hours of lectures or seminars and 2 hours and 30 minutes theoretical-practical classes, per week.

Software

PASW Statistics 19.0

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	0,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Students may only be admitted to the final exam if they have succeeded in the group work and have obtained 4.5 or more marks in the sum of the work and the continuous assessment.

Group work (5 marks: 0-20 scale) – Covers the assessment of a Semester project, done by a group of students, orientated by a professor. The project themes are proposed by the teaching team at the beginning of Semester. Typically, the projects include the elaboration of a research protocol – including the question, bibliographic search and study design – and will be presented and discussed in two sessions. At the end of the Semester, each group must submit their research protocol, a flowchart describing methods, and a Gantt chart describing project schedule.

Continuous assessment (5 marks: 0-20 scale) – Covers the assessment of the student’s participation in the teaching and learning process of the course unit throughout the Semester and will be based on one or more practical tests, that will be answered individually during the theoretical-practical classes (4 marks), and in the teachers opinion about each student (1 mark).

Calculation formula of final grade

Final assessment or theoretical exam (10 marks: 0-20 scale) –The exam covers the theoretical content of the program of the the course unit, consisting of: (a) closed answer, multiple-choice and simple open questions (b) short answer and (c) long answer. The exam is of 90-minute duration. Only the students who obtain a mark equal or higher than 4.8 will have a pass.

Final classification – after passing the final exam, the final marks of the the course unit will be obtained by the sum of continuous assessment, group work and the final exam.

Examinations or Special Assignments

There is no special assignments.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the rules approved by FMUP.

Classification improvement

In accordance with the rules approved by FMUP.