Code: | MI431 | Acronym: | MGF |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Medicine |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences |
Course/CS Responsible: | Integrated Master in Medicine |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MIMED | 246 | Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular) | 4 | - | 3 | 28 | 81 |
This Course will consist of two main areas. One area of contact with the extra-hospital environment, where the student contact with patients and families in their homes and units in Primary Health Care and a propaedeutic area, where the student will pay attention to how it develops consultation and the relationship of the physician with the patient and his family, also in extra-hospital environment.
Thus, the learning objectives are:
1.To practice a modern concept of Health and the aspects related to it, especially the biological, psychological, familial, social and ecological.
2. To understand efforts to improve health through quality health promotion, which includes education for health, health protection and prevention of disease and its complications.
3. To know the different organizational models of health around the world, as well as their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
4. To contact with different institutions of Portuguese National Health Service, as well as other community institutions that may be somehow related to health in Portugal.
5. To analyze the similarities and differences between state medicine, agreed, contract management and private, between Primary Care and Hospitals and between hospital doctors, public health and general practitioners.
6. To know the philosophy, physical space, professionals, mode of operation and purpose of the Primary Health Care in Portugal.
7. To understand the practice of General and Family Medicine as a whole as well as its various components, especially its definition, content and nature, methods and techniques, workload, organization teams, and activities.
8. To develop skills of medical evidence focused on the person and based on scientific evidence.
Definition of General and Family Medicine (GFM). The profile of the GP and Primary Health Care in Portugal. The surrounding community: determinants of health and health needs. Assessment of patient: patient-centered care. Consultation on GFM. Medical history and records. Framing family and community. Doctor-patient relationship: communication as a key factor. The list of problems: prioritization of problems by the clinical and the epidemiological context. Integration and management of health promotion, prevention, cure, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care customized to the patient at different life stages. Health Education in individual and community clinical practice. Screening in clinical practice Surveillance of vulnerable groups- Infant and juvenile Health Plan. Women's health and family planning. Maternal health. Health of older people. Surveillance of risk groups (hypertension, diabetes, respiratory diseases) Hipertension as a model of risk management, looking for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
The decision on GFM: evidence-based medicine and the management of the uncertainty.
National health programs. Performance evaluation on GFM. Contracts. Diagnosis of organizational development and performance indicators. The International Classification of Primary Health Care.
Research on General and Family MedicineThe teaching activity consists in seminars, for a structured deepening of knowledge, complemented by training periods in which students are asked to analyze pedagogical clinical cases (in role-playing sessions, simulated patients or case reports prepared for discussion) and consultation of real patients collecting their medical history and evaluating the visit quality parameters.
Students will contact with at least one patient, describing his/her medical history, drawing up the list of health problems, active, passive and inactive, hierarchically presented taking into account the whole person, and structuring a preventive and therapeutic plan.
Students will visit a Family Health Unit, to contact with the multidisciplinary team, prospecting for the operation of the institution in the preventive and curative aspects.
To get approval in this course, the student must meet a minimum of 2/3 of the proposed activities. A minimum of 10 points is required in each of the 3 components of assessment:
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 70,00 |
Participação presencial | 10,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 20,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
To get approval in this course, the student must meet a minimum of 2/3 of the proposed activities. A minimum of 10 points is required in each of the 3 components of assessment: