Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500891 Nursing | OT | 4 | 2 |
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The purpose of the subject is to develop a critical knowledge and an open attitude towards cultural diversity in the processes of health-illness-care. The central axis of the subject is based on the definition of illness understood as a cultural phenomenon in itself beyond its pure biological aspect. Disease is a multi-faceted cultural entity where we can distinguish three dimensions: disease (wrong functioning of the human organism) the illness (meanings and representations of the subject in relation to his/her illness or suffering) and sickness (social dimension of the disease).
Medical Anthropology and different theoretical references. Universality of the health-illness binomial.
Explanatory models of the disease as concepts of analysis of the processes of health-illness-care.: biomedical model versus lay models. Hegemony of the biomedical model. Professional roles based on the size of the conflict: power, authority and prestige.
The medicalization process. Standardization vs. deviation.
The different methodologies aim to guide the student in acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills that foster a critical attitude and a respectful professional vision against the disease as a process of cultural and social construction. Theory includes expert patient illness narratives (EPIN) in which expert patients on different days will explain their narrative. A fourth day of feedback to the storytellers will be used by the students. In the classroom practices, the students will do group work to explore the illness' explanatory model and will compare it with the corresponding biomedical model.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
CLASSROOM PRACTICES (PAUL) | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 5, 3, 4, 6, 7 |
THEORY (T) | 35 | 1.4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
TUTORIALS | 14 | 0.56 | 1, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
SELF-STUDY | 84.5 | 3.38 | 1, 5 |
The final grade of the subject is the weighted average of each of the assessment activities: written and oral assessments. The weighting will be carried out provided that the minimum mark in each of them assessment tests are equal to or greater than 4. If not presented, it will be rated as Non-Evaluable (NE) and will be quantified as zero (0).
Definition of NON EVALUABLE: It will be understood by Non-valuable that situation in which it has not been carried out 50% or more of the evaluation activities.
Review of tests: The review will consist of an individual tutorial where the student will be given the feedback relation to how it has been evaluated. They have the right to review all the students who have a previous appointment with the teacher.
The eventual treatment of particular cases: It will be carried out from a teaching committee (formed by the coordinator of the subject, and 1 department professor experts in the subject) who will evaluate the particular situation of the student and the most appropriate decisions will be taken.
Students who failed the subject through continuous assessment may submit to a retake exam as long as the student has been assessed for two thirds of the total grade of the subject. This retake exam will include all the matter of the subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Objective tests: test of multiple choice questions. | 40% | 0.15 | 0.01 | 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 |
Obtective tests: essay tests of restricted questions | 10% | 0.6 | 0.02 | 1, 4, 7 |
Oral defense of written works | 50% | 0.75 | 0.03 | 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6 |
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