Pain Medicine

Code:

OPT80

Acronym:

MD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2017/2018 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Biomedicina
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	12	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	4	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To acquire multidisciplinary knowledge in the areas of physiopathology, diagnosis and clinical management of Pain.

Learning outcomes and competences

To beacquainted and understand the ethiopathogenic differences between the various types of pain; to be able to make a differential diagnosis of nociceptive, neuropathic an mixed pain; to be able to propose a therapeutic plan suitable to each type of pain; to be able to further acquire knowledge about pain through self-learning.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Pain Epidemiology; Pain Physiopathology; Evaluation of a Pain Patient; Pharmacological Pain Therapy; Non-Pharmacological Pain Therapy; Pain Psychology; Muscle-skeletal Pain; Neuropathic Pain; Cancer Pain, Post-operative Pain; Visceral Pain. Clinical rotation

Mandatory literature

Stephen McMahon, Martin Koltzenburg, Irene Tracey, Dennis C. Turk, E; Wall and Melzack Textbook of Pain, 6th Edition

Complementary Bibliography

Sir Michael R. Bond and Karen H. Simpson; Pain: Its Nature and Treatment, 2006
Donald D. Price and M. Catherine Bushnell; Psychological Methods of Pain Control: Basic Science and Clinical Perspectives, 2004
José M. Castro-Lopes; Fisiopatologia da Dor, 2003

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and observational clinical rotation.

keywords

Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	100,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grade = Final examen grade