Sports Medicine and Exercise

Code:

OPT5_28

Acronym:

MDE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2021/2022 - 2S (of 28-02-2022 to 09-06-2022)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Medical Teaching
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Masters Degree in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	10	Official Study Plan	5	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The area of ​​Sports Medicine is a medical specialty, officially recognized for a long time by the Ordem dos Médicos, having a structural organization similar to the other specialties.

It is a medical field that has not been included in the curricular programs of the different medical education institutions in Portugal.

The prescription of physical exercise, leisure or therapeutic, is one of the areas with which any physician struggles in his daily professional practice.

With the creation of an optional area of ​​Sports Medicine and Exercise is intended to enable students of MIM of ICBAS, contact with this specific area and all aspects related to this medical specialty, allowing the acquisition of knowledge that allows the students an improvement of their clinical practice in this area.

This optional unit will allow students to get knowledge that enables them to contact with the circumstances and specificities of the medical evaluation and clinical guidance of an athlete or sportsman, in its various aspects.

Its main objectives will be:

- Provide knowledge in the field of Sports Medicine and Exercise, present the main areas related to Sports Medicine, knowledge acquisition for assessment and medical examination, guidelines for prescription of physical exercise, leisure or therapeutic.

- Practice of Sports Medicine in its main aspects.

- Major injuries related to sports and exercise. Development and counseling of sports injury prevention programs. Nutrition advice and supplementation in sport. Doping.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should gain experience and learning:

- in the assessment and orientation of a sports athlete, in competition or leisure, guiding a team in their different levels of organization and competition.

- have knowledge for counseling and prescription of therapeutic exercise.

- contact with the circumstances and specificities of the medical evaluation and clinical orientation of an athlete or a sportsman, in its most varied aspects, return to play.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 - The role of a specialist in sports medicine in the context of a team or individual sport,
2 - The skills of a specialist in sports medicine and exercise,
3 - Physical exercise and Public Health,
4 - Therapeutic benefits of physical exercise,
5 - Physical and sports examinations,
6 - Protocols and consensuses for evaluation in sports medicine,
7 - Physical evaluation and sports evaluation tests,
8 - Physiology of the exercise,
9 - Sport in childhood and pediatric age,
10 - Sports in the Elderly,
11- Sports in Women and Pregnancy,
12 - Guidelines for athletes Cardiological evaluation
13 - Sudden death in Sport,
14 - Asthma and physical exercise,
15 - Musculoskeletal evaluation of an athlete,
16 - Physical and rehabilitation therapies,
17 - Utility and application of alternative / physical / natural therapies in Sport,
18 - Prescription of physical exercise and therapeutic exercise, 19 - Sports counseling guidelines in the most frequent medical pathologies,
20 - Sports nutrition and supplementation,
21 - Psychology in a sporting context,
22 - The athlete suffering from many pathologies and sports practice,
23 - Doping / doping substances and methods
24 - Main sports injuries by anatomical segments,
25 - Main sports injuries by different modalities,
26 - The race and athletics of leisure and competition,
27 - Prevention of sports injuries,
28 - The Main Auxiliary diagnostic exams in the athlete
29 - How to organize a multidisciplinary team in a health department
30 - How to organize medical support for a big sport event,
31 - How to organize a trip for a professional team,
32 - Medical emergency in  sports context,
33 - The "harms" of physical exercise,
34 - Main Guidelines in the rehabilitation of an injury,
35 - Team work in Sports Medicine,
36 - Major leisure sports

Mandatory literature

Sports Medicine Secrets ; 3ª edição , 2002
Clinic Sports Medicine; 4ª edição, 2012
ACSM -; Guidelines for exercise testing ana prescription – 10ª edição, 2017
Manual de Medicina Desportiva; 2ª edição
Sports Medicine ; Board review

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching of this Unit will be done in the form of lectures, theoretical-practical and practical. Joint seminars will be held on topics considered as Base Themes of Discipline, taught by different health professionals. Whenever applicable, practical cases will be used with the presence of an athlete or athletes and team context situations. Teaching online or by video conference will be carried out on some topics.

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching / learning methodologies will depend on the existing epidemiological situation and we can have one of the 3 scenarios:

A. Face-to-face - classes will take place in the usual manner

B. Blended format for contact hours:

. Theoretical classes will be held with presence of some students or totally remotely via Zoom in a synchronous way.

. TP classes will be held with presence of some students or totally remotely via Zoom in a synchronous way with discussion of clinical cases.

. Practical classes: the groups will be divided into two parts, half should have contact with the real patient and the other half with the virtual patient or perform another activity indicated by the teacher, alternating the following week.

C. Distance learning - this model will only be applied if the conditions for semi-face-to-face teaching are impossible due to pandemic and will be done entirely with the use of virtual patients and digital platforms.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Teste	50,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	55,00
Frequência das aulas	26,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the legislation in force.

Calculation formula of final grade

50% Written test + 25% practical evaluation + 25% evaluation report

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Oral Examination

Classification improvement

Oral Examination