Women's Medicine: Obstetrics

Code:

M5_BC03

Acronym:

MMO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S (of 17-02-2025 to 13-06-2025)

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	75	Official Study Plan	5	-	3	32	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Main Objective:

Developing skills in basic obstetric clinical assessment, in particular: knowledge of preconception basic principles, normal pregnancy surveillance and clinical risk, normal and abnormal delivery, understanding the basic principles of intrapartum fetal surveillance , recognition of major medical or surgical disorders during pregnancy and clinical care management in postpartum period.

 

General Goals:

Integrated learning in accordance with obstetric clinical practice with skill development in understanding disease mechanisms, ability to establish a diagnosis, promote health and preventive measures, and be able to organize a patient management plan in the following contents of clinical obstetrics:

- Assistance to normal delivery

- Postpartum Care

- Preconception care

- Antenatal Care

- Postpartum bleeding

- Medical and surgical disorders in pregnancy

- Abortion and ectopic pregnancy

- Third-trimester bleeding

- Abnormal delivery and intrapartum fetal surveillance

- Preterm delivery

- Multiple Pregnancy

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Essential Objective

Acquisition of essential knowledge to understand the physiological processes of pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. Students should develop skills to execute clinical examinations and diagnoses, as well as learning to manage obstetric complications. It is deemed necessary to acquire skills in the maternal health approach, methods of health prevention and promotion, using pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures. Students should learn to communicate with a pregnant woman, work as a team according to the ethical values ​​of medical conduct, and internalize the duty of respect to cultural diversity in obstetric practices.

 

General Goals

At the end of this course unit the student must obtain general skills in:

- Woman's communication and clinical evaluation during preconception, pregnancy, delivery and puerperium

- Obstetric clinical semiology

- Preventive medicine in obstetrics and screening programs

- Ethical principles and their suitability in general obstetric practice

- Embryology and fetal development

- Maternal-fetal unit physiology

- Medical care in preconception and during gestation

- Genetic counseling

- Medical care during labor and delivery

- Abnormal delivery and intrapartum fetal surveillance

- Postpartum care

- Patient approach with postpartum bleeding

- Multiple pregnancy management

- Identification of fetal growth abnormalities

- Basic diagnostic evaluation in preterm labor

- Clinical approach of a pregnant with bleeding in the third trimester of pregnancy

- Clinical approach of a pregnant with premature rupture of membranes

- Postterm pregnancy approach

- Diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancy and pregnancy loss

- Diagnosis and treatment of medical and surgical disorders during pregnancy

Working method

Presencial

Program

Theoretical classes

1. Maternal-fetal physiology
2. Preconception and antepartum care
3. Prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders
4. Intrapartum care
5. Abnormal labor and intrapartum fetal surveillance
6. Postpartum care and postpartum hemorrhage

 

Practical classes

1. Obstetric and fetal medicine: semiology, preventive medicine, and ethical principles
2. Multiple gestation
3. Fetal growth abnormalities
4. Preterm labor
5. Third-trimester bleeding
6. Premature rupture of membranes
7. Postterm pregnancy
8. Ectopic pregnancy and pregnancy loss
9. Endocrine disorders and pregnancy
10. Gastrointestinal, renal, and surgical complications during pregnancy
11. Cardiovascular and respiratory disorders during pregnancy
12. Hematologic and immunologic complications during pregnancy
13. Infectious diseases during pregnancy
14. Neurological and psychiatric diseases during pregnancy

Mandatory literature

Casanova, R., Chuang, A., Goepfert, A., Hueppchen, N., Weiss, P., Beckmann, C., Ling, F., Herbert, W., Laube, D. & Smith, R; Beckmann and Ling’s Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wolters Kluwer (considerada a última edição à data do início do ano letivo)

Complementary Bibliography

Charles J. Lockwood MD, Joshua A. Copel MD, Lorraine Dugoff MD, Judette Louis MD, MPH, Thomas R. Moore MD, Robert M. Silver MD e Robert Resnik MD; Creasy and Resnik's Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Elsevier (última edição à data do início do ano letivo)
F. Gary Cunningham, Barbara Hoffman, Catherine Spong, Brian Casey, Jodi Dashe, Kenneth Leveno; Williams Obstetrics, McGraw-Hill Education (considerada a última edição à data do início do ano letivo)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Individual work, teamwork, critical reflection, expository method, interrogative method, demonstrative method.

Training in an environment of obstetric simulation.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

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

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	49,00
Frequência das aulas	32,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

For frequency obtaining it is mandatory for presence in 3/4 of theoretical and theoretical-practice classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

In the final classification, they will be taken into account:

1. Practical assessment:                                                                                       a) Assiduity (2 values);                                                                                   b) Participation and learning motivation (3 values).
2. Multiple choice final test: 15 values

Final Classification = Practical Assessment (25%) + Final Exam (75%)

Minimum grade in the final test - 9.5 points

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Upon oral examination conduct.

Classification improvement

Upon oral examination conduct.

Observations

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