Contact in Primary Care

Code:

OPT09

Acronym:

CCSP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2018/2019 - 2S (of 11-02-2019 to 12-07-2019)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences
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	40	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
			3

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The Optional Curricular Unit "Basic Contact in Healthcare" will consist of an area of contact with the hospital external environment, where the student contacts with the patients and their families in their homes and in the Health Centres. Students will develop the following skills: - Knowing the Primary Health Care; - Identify the Portuguese National Health Service, and the institutions of the Community, their functions and skills.

Learning outcomes and competences

The methodology allows to put into practice the theoretical knowledge acquired.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Knowing the philosophy and goals of the Primary Health Care. Contact the physical space, the professionals involved and the method of operation of health centers in Portugal. Understand the practice of family medicine and other professions involved in Primary Health Care Portuguese as a whole as well as its various components, especially its definition, content and nature, methods and techniques, workload, organization teams, activity in terms of space and time. Knowing the different organizational models of health in Portugal, as well as their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. Identify the different institutions of the System and the Portuguese National Health Service, as well as other Community institutions that may be somehow related to health in Portugal. Analyze the similarities and differences between Hospitals and Health Centers and Doctors from hospitals, public health and general practice.

Mandatory literature

José M. Mendes Nunes; Comunicação em contexto clínico, Bayer Health Care , 2007
Martins, C.,Azevedo, L.F., Ribeiro, O., Sá, L., Santos, P., Couto, L., Costa Pereira, A., Hespanhol, AP.; A population-based nationwide Cross-Sectional Study on Preventive health Services Utilization in Portugal - What services (and frequencies) are deemed necessary by patients?, PLOS ONE, 2014
P. H. Myerscough; Talking with patients, Oxford Medical Publications, 1992
Allan H. Goroll; Lawrence A. May; Albert G. Mulley; Cuidados primarios em medicina: abordagem do paciente adulto em ambulatório, Mcgraw-Hill, 1997. ISBN: 972-8298-19-6
Martín Zurro; J. F. Cano Pérez; Atención primaria: conceptos, organización y prática clínica, Elsier, 2003. ISBN: 84-8174-650-9
John Horder; Patrick Byrne; Paul Freeling; Conrad Harris; Donald Irvine; Marshall Marinker; O clínico geral do futuro. Apredizagem e Ensino, Departamento de Clínica Geral - FMUP, 1990
Pendleton D. Schofield T.; Havelock P.; A Consulta: Uma abordagem à aprendizagem e Ensino., Departamento de Clínica Geral - FMUP, 1993

Teaching methods and learning activities

Seminars: Together with the Assistant and the other students who work or will work with the same assistant, there will be present and discuss the tasks performed and will discuss topics of Primary Health Care, for a period ofthree hours.

Supervised experiences: The student may, under the guidance of Assistant or other Professional Unit of Primary Health Care, travel to the homes of the users or health institutions or the community in any way connected with health, with a duration of four hours by producing a written report on the same.

Tutorial: During the course of the Curricular Unit the student will contact with organization and planningof a Primary Health Care Setting and / or perform other tasks as may be assigned, for a period of three hours, which will require the realization of a written report.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	1,00
Estudo autónomo	23,00
Frequência das aulas	9,00
Trabalho escrito	7,50
Total:	40,50

Eligibility for exams

Presence in at least 75% of school activities
Proof of active participation in the elaboration of the final work

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is calcuylated by weighting:

• Participation in pedagogical activities during the course(20%)

• Elaboration of a written work on one topic of Primary Health Care, to be delivered at the end of the semester (60%)

• Oral presentation of the wtitten work (20%)