Gastroenterology

Code:

MI540

Acronym:

GASTRO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Medicine
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	127	Plano Oficial 2021	5	-	4	38	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To acquire core knowledge in the area.

To learn how to collect clinical information from the history and the objective exam.

To develop diagnostic strategies by appropriate selection of complementary diagnostic aids.

To propose therapies for clinical problems solution.

To maintain a permanent scientific attitude and ethical judgement.

Learning outcomes and competences

The student will be able to fullfill the proposed objectivs through the study of the program contents, patiente direct observation in the wards, outpatient clinic, emergency and Endoscopy Unit.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Theoretical: 10 classes / 10 hours

1.The Universe of Gastroenterology and the Semiology of Digestive Diseases: clinical decision algorithms.

2. Altered liver tests: clinical significance.
3. Inflammatory Bowel Disease: epidemiology, clinical and therapeutic.
4. Benign and malignant pancreatic pathology: from diagnosis to treatment.
5. Proctology.
6. Clinical approach to the patient with cirrhosis: Portal hypertension and its complications.
7. Autoimmune liver diseases.
8. Oncological Prevention in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
9. Digestive Endoscopy: modalities, diagnostic and therapeutic indications.
10. Functional and Digestive Motility Disorders.

Theorical - practical: 8 classes / 8 hours

1. Clinical approach of the patient with digestive hemorrhage.
2. Viral hepatitis.
3. Metabolic and genetic liver diseases in adults.
4. Gastroesophageal reflux disease: diagnosis, therapy and complication.
5. Pathology of the Small Intestine.
6. Endoscopic therapy of hepatic biliary and pancreatic pathology.
7. Peptic disease, gastritis & Hpylori
8. Pathology / Gastro

Mandatory literature

Feldman, M., Friedman, L. & Brandt, L. ; Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Philadelphia: Elsevier. , 2020

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical: 10, with a duration of 60 min.

Theoretical-Practical: 8, with a duration of 90 min.

 Practical classes in the Emergency, in the wards , Endoscopy Center and external consultation.

 

Clinical meetings, namely with the participation of Special Pathological Anatomy.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Exame	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	70,00
Frequência das aulas	38,00
Total:	108,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed assessment with final written exam:

• Written exam  with 40 multiple choice questions- duration of 60 minutes; 16 values

 

• 7.5 minimum grade in the exam for approval;

 

• Presentation of work: 2 values

 

• Practices (6 classes in a total of 8) + Attendance: 2 values

 

• Confirmation of a grade higher than 18 points requires an oral test.

 

In exceptional situations of appeal or improvement, if necessary, the Written Test may be replaced, with the same price, by an Oral Exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Exam: 75%

Presential partcipation: 25%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students with a status of Working Students and others with specific legal prerogatives, who, for this reason, do not have the minimum attendance to theoretical-practical and practical classes, alternatively will have to take an oral  practical exam at the end of the block, to have access to the final exam.

Classification improvement

Grade improvement can only be performed in the final exam component (75%)

Observations

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