Assessment

This subject does not provide the single assessment system

The students must have a minimum attendance of 80% in the practical sessions of each specialty in order to be evaluated. Justified absences may be made up later in a manner deemed appropriate, feasible, and convenient by each specialty and Teaching Unit. If the 80% attendance cannot be met, the student will need to retake the course the following year.

The following competencies are assessed:

Attendance, punctuality, and participation in clinical practice with the assigned physician, who will evaluate on a scale of 0-10 points for each responsible person in the Teaching Unit. Maximum score: 20% of the final grade.

Portfolio: Students will record the medical or surgical activity of the most relevant case they have attended that day in a table according to the available model in the Virtual Classroom. It should specify the specialty where the practice took place, the name of the physician or medical/surgical team responsible for the patient, medical history number, the patient's clinical condition, identification of the medical or surgical problem, the pathology, and the diagnostic or therapeutic action performed, as well as the key concepts to remember. Each case should not exceed one DIN A4 page in length. The objective of the portfolio is for students to extract the most significant aspects of the case, such as one or two key concepts to remember. It will be evaluated on a scale of 0-10 by each responsible person in the Teaching Unit. Maximum score: 40% of the final grade.

Written clinical case: Two clinical cases, one surgical and one medical, will be described from those previously recorded in the portfolio. In order to distribute the workload evenly among all professors, the specialty of the assigned clinical cases to students will be proposed by the Teaching Unit. There will be the possibility of exchanging assigned cases with prior communication to the responsible persons of the corresponding subjects. Length: minimum of 1,250 words and a maximum of 3,000 words. It is recommended to include radiological images, records, etc.

The structure of each case will consist of:

Cover page: Student's name, student identification number, date, specialty, and a suggestive title for the case (e.g., "Acute COPD Exacerbation," "Catheterization," "Femur Fracture," "Aortic Prosthesis," "Rheumatoid Arthritis," etc.).

Case description: Reason for consultation/admission, medical history, toxic habits, regular medication, physical examination, complementary examinations, differential diagnosis, working diagnosis, and recommended/performed medical and/or surgical treatment as recommended items.

Discussion: This is the most important part of this section. As a guideline, students should comment on the complementary examinations performed, why they consider various differential diagnoses, why they have chosen the main diagnosis, the medical or surgical treatment to be performed, as well as outlining a prognosis and its justification. Process diagnostic or therapeutic algorithms for the case can be included.

Bibliography is optional (maximum of 10 references, including book chapters, UpToDate, PubMed reviews, scientific society protocols, etc.).

If texts generated by AI systems are detected, appropriate measures will be taken in accordance with the coordinating teachers of each Teaching Unit.

The clinical case will be corrected by the responsible medical or surgical professional from each specific specialty.

Correct orthography, vocabulary, and grammar are expected.

It will be evaluated on a scale of 0-10 by each responsible person in the Teaching Unit. Maximum score: 40% of the final grade.

Both the portfolio and the clinical case are recommended to be written in a standard font (Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman, etc.) with a font size of 11 and a line spacing of 1.5.

The portfolios (1 per specialty) and the clinical cases (medical and surgical) will be uploaded to the corresponding webpage of the Virtual Campus in the respective folders. The portfolios and clinical cases should be sent as separate PDF documents. The files should be named as follows: student ID.portfolio.specialty.pdf, student ID.case.specialty.pdf. For example, student A will send 6 portfolios (123456.portfolio.pneumo.pdf + 123456.portfolio.cardio.pdf + 123456.portfolio.reumato.pdf, etc.) and 2 cases (123456.case.pneumo.pdf and 123456.case.vascular.pdf) to the assigned folder on the subject's webpage in the Virtual Campus.

The responsible medical and surgical professionals of each Teaching Unit will be responsible for compiling the corresponding grades (medical block and surgical block) and subsequently preparing the final grade.

The final grade for the subject is the weighted average of attendance, punctuality, and active participation in the practical sessions, the portfolio of practices, and the 2 written clinical cases.

A minimum grade of 5.00 out of 10 is required to pass the subject. If the minimum requirement is not met (non-submission of required documentation, inadequate format of the documentation, or insufficient content level), it can be made up by submitting it later within the timeframe established by the responsible persons of each Teaching Unit.

It is at the discretion of each subject coordinator to request the oral presentation of the case or cases byeach student, in order to allow for a real evaluation of the knowledge presented in writing, or to decide the assignment of honors, among other requirements.

In all texts, it is recommended to follow the "Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language Use at the Autonomous University of Barcelona" (https://www.uab.cat/doc/llenguatge).

Following the recommendations of "Sustainable Campus - UAB Environment - UAB Barcelona" (https://www.uab.cat/web/siguem-sostenibles/campus-sostenible-1345811620835.html), all documentation submitted to the faculty will be exclusively in digital format.