Competences

• Accept one's role in actions to prevent or protect against diseases, injuries or accidents and to maintain and promote health, on both personal and community-wide levels.
• Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights, diversity and democratic values.
• Apply the principle of social justice to professional practice and demonstrate understanding of the ethical implications of health in a changing world context.
• Care for patients, families and the community in an effective and efficient manner, in accordance with professional ethics, with special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, as part of multidisciplinary teams.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, orally and in writing, with patients, family-members and accompanying persons, to facilitate decision-making, informed consent and compliance with instructions.
• Communicate clearly, orally and in writing, with other professionals and the media.
• Critically assess and use clinical and biomedical information sources to obtain, organise, interpret and present information on science and health.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of action, indications, efficacy and benefit-risk ratio of therapeutic interventions based on the available scientific evidence.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of the Spanish health system, legislation on health and economic issues.
• Demonstrate sufficient supervised clinical experience in hospitals or other healthcare centres, and familiarity with patient-centred care management and the correct use of tests, medicines and other resources of the healthcare system.
• Demonstrate understanding of the importance of ethical principles in dealings with patients, society and the profession, in particular with regard to professional confidentiality.
• Demonstrate understanding of the manifestations of the illness in the structure and function of the human body.
• Design and manage programmes and projects in the field of health.
• Empathise and establish efficient interpersonal communication with patients, family-members, accompanying persons, doctors and other healthcare professionals.
• Engage in professional practice with respect for patients' autonomy, beliefs and culture, and for other healthcare professionals, showing an aptitude for teamwork.
• Establish a diagnostic approach and a well thought-out strategy for action, taking account of the results of the anamnesis and the physical examination, and the results of the appropriate complementary tests carried out subsequently.
• Establish the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, basing decisions on the best possible evidence and a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the patient's needs and involving all members of the healthcare team, as well as the family and social environment.
• Give the patient and/or accompanying persons the relevant information about the disease process, its bases and consequences, including bad news, in an appropriate way.
• Identify and measure the affective and emotional components of human behaviour and their disorders.
• Indicate the basic diagnosis techniques and procedures and analyse and interpret the results so as to better pinpoint the nature of the problems.
• Indicate the most suitable treatment for the most prevalent acute and chronic processes, and for the terminally ill.
• Listen carefully, obtain and synthesise relevant information on patients' problems, and understand this information.
• Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
• Obtain and prepare a patient record that contains all important information and is structured and patient-centred, taking into account all age and gender groups and cultural, social and ethnic factors.
• Perform a general and a system-by-system physical examination appropriate to the patient's age and sex, in complete and systematic way, and a mental evaluation.
• Perform the basic practical procedures of examination and treatment.
• Put forward suitable preventive measures for each clinical situation.
• Reason and make decisions in conflict situations of an ethical, religious, cultural, legal or professional nature, including those that stem from economic constraints, the marketing of health cures or scientific advances.
• Recognise and take action in life-threatening situations and others that require an immediate response.
• Recognise ethical, legal and technical factors in patients' documentation, plagiarism, confidentiality and propriety.
• Recognise the basic elements of the medical profession as the result of an evolving, scientific, social and cultural process, including ethical principles, legal responsibilities and patient-oriented professional practice.
• Recognise the role of complexity, uncertainty and probability in decision-making in medical practice.
• Recognize the determinants of population health, both genetic and dependent on gender, lifestyle, and demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural factors.
• Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
• Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Use information and communication technologies in professional practice.
• Write patient records and other medical documents that can be understood by third parties.