Degree | Type | Year |
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Medicine | OB | 3 |
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There are no official prerequisites, but it is recommended that candidates meet the following criteria:
• Be enrolled in the third year of the degree.
• It is advisable to take the course after the start of clinical training.
• Have passed the subjects Clinical Practice I and II.
• Be enrolled (though not necessarily have passed) in the subject of Pathophysiology and Clinical Semiotics (third year).
Given the practical nature of this course, which takes place in a Primary Care Centre, students are expected to commit to preserving confidentiality and professional secrecy regarding any data they may have access to during their training in healthcare services. Likewise, a professional and ethical attitude is expected in all their actions.
The context in which the subject of Family and Community Medicine takes place represents the students’ first contact, during their clinical training phase, with the primary healthcare system.
Several aspects of clinical care practice are considered part of the scope of primary care, including: home visits; the preventive and community-based approach to behaviours, lifestyles, and health problems, taking into account their social and gender-related determinants; continuity of care throughout a person’s life, including end-of-life care; comprehensive management of individuals with multiple health conditions and situations of vulnerability or frailty; and a family-oriented and intersectional approach to certain health problems.
Furthermore, primary care is where the diagnostic process for many health problems begins, where referral and consultation criteria are defined, and where the so-called continuum of care is ensured—that is, coordination with other levels of the healthcare system and with community and social care services—aiming to provide equitable, accessible, and gender-sensitive care.
Likewise, the foundations will be laid to carry out research in primary care with an integrative approach.
The learning objectives of this course are as follows:
• To understand the structure of the primary care team and its members, valuing professional diversity and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• To appropriately conduct the clinical interview, including complex situations such as delivering bad news, with emotional sensitivity, ethical awareness, and a gender-sensitive approach.
• To understand the principles and practice of home care, tailored to individual needs and the surrounding environment.
• To integrate preventive activities that promote health equity, taking into account social and gender-related determinants.
• To understand the care of individuals with multiple health conditions and complex pharmacological treatments, promoting a comprehensive and person-centred approach.
• To introduce research in primary care from a critical, ethical, and gender-sensitive perspective.
• To introduce deprescribing and quaternary prevention strategies, aimed at avoiding unnecessary medicalisation and associated risks, especially in vulnerable populations.
This course is complemented by others such as the Academic Itineraries in Medicine (AIMs), Pathophysiology, and Clinical Semiotics, fostering a coherent, progressive, and person-centred educational experience. It is worth highlighting the significant contribution of women to the development, coordination, and educational innovation of this subject, both in clinical practice and in academia. Currently, the coordination of the subject is led by a primary care physician, reflecting a strong commitment to gender equity and female representation in academic leadership roles.
Appropriate use of the clinical interview in special situations, such as delivering bad news, which should enable: identifying the patient’s concerns and reasons for consultation in an empathetic and unbiased manner; exploring guiding symptoms; assessing psychosocial aspects with sensitivity to gender and contextual inequalities; identifying diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities; and applying narrative support techniques that promote a respectful, person-centred clinical relationship.
Understanding of home care: identification of the most frequent reasons for consultation; understanding the roles of different professional profiles within the primary care team; appropriate use of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in the patient’s home; and assessment of the role of caregivers, as well as the family and community environment, with special attention to the care burden, which often disproportionately affects women.
Preventive activities: knowledge of the main prevention strategies in adults (vaccination, screening for cardiovascular risk factors and neoplasms, health promotion—physical activity, healthy eating, mental health, among others), taking into account the social, cultural, and gender-related determinants that affect access, adherence, and outcomes of these interventions.
Care for individuals with multiple health conditions and polypharmacy: identification of challenges in clinical management, rational use of medication, pharmacological interactions, comorbidities, and therapeutic burden, with an individualized approach that is person-centred and sensitive to social and gender context.
Understanding the basic elements of research dissemination in primary care, promoting clear, ethical, inclusive, and gender-sensitive scientific communication.
Understanding how and when deprescribing should be carried out in people on multiple medications, especially when certain drugs offer no clinical benefit and pose a higher risk of adverse effects or interactions, in accordance with person-centred medicine and equitable use of therapeutic resources.
Recognizing the importance of quaternary prevention as an ethical tool to avoid unnecessary medicalisation, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment, by promoting shared, informed decisions that respect each person’s preferences, values, and circumstances.
Course content blocks:
• A. Clinical interview
• B. Home care
• C. Individuals with multiple health conditions and polypharmacy
• D. Preventive activities
• E. Introduction to research in primary care
• F. Deprescribing and quaternary prevention
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Clinical care practices (CCP) | 21 | 0.84 | 1, 3, 11, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 15, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 16, 18 |
SEMINARS | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 3, 11, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 18 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
PREPARATION OF ASSIGNMENTS / PERSONAL STUDY | 39.9 | 1.6 | 11, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 2, 18 |
For the current academic year, the teaching staff appointed by the Departments as responsible for the subject at both Faculty and Teaching Unit (UDH) level are as follows:
Responsible Department: Medicine
Faculty Coordinator: Asunción Wilke Trinxant (MariaAsuncion.wilke@uab.cat)
UD Vall d’Hebron: Joan Juvanteny (juvanteny@gmail.com)
UD Germans Trias i Pujol: Asunción Wilke (awilke.bnm.ics@gencat.cat)
UD Sant Pau: M.ª Antònia Llauger (mallauger@gencat.cat)
UD Parc Taulí: Carme Expósito (Carmen.Expósito@uab.cat)
Clinical Placements
Type: Supervised Clinical Practice (PCA)
Content: Clinical practice at a Primary Care Centre (CAP) for a total of 21 hours. Students are assigned in pairs (groups of 2).
Seminars
Type: Specialised Seminars (SESP)
Group size: Up to 25 students
Duration: 6 sessions of 2 hours each (with 10 minutes allocated for assessment)
Scheduling: Organised by each Hospital Teaching Unit (UDH)
Seminar content:
• Seminar 1: Clinical interview (How to deliver bad news)
• Seminar 2: Foundations of research in primary care
• Seminar 3: Home care
• Seminar 4: Preventive activities
• Seminar 5: Care of individuals with multiple health conditions and polypharmacy
• Seminar 6: Deprescribing and quaternary prevention
Given the nature of the seminars (work based on clinical cases), students are expected to have reviewed the seminar materials in advance. These will be made available through the Virtual Campus.
Exceptionally, and based on the judgement of the course coordinators, the availability of resources, and the current public health situation within each Teaching Unit, some of the theoretical, practical, and seminar content may be delivered either in person or online.
Note: 15 minutes of one session, within the timeframe established by the centre/degree programme, will be allocated for students to complete course and teaching performance evaluations.
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 | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Assessment by objective tests: multiple choice items/restricted questions | 50% | 1 | 0.04 | 11, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 2, 18 |
Evaluation of clinical cases and/or skills in the seminars | 15% | 0.7 | 0.03 | 1, 3, 11, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18 |
Practical evaluation | 35 | 0.4 | 0.02 | 1, 11, 4, 6, 15, 9, 13, 16 |
This course does not offer a single final evaluation option.
The assessment is continuous, based on attendance and the evaluation of various learning activities.
To pass the course, it is essential to meet the following requirements:
a) 100% attendance of clinical placements at the Primary Care Centre (CAP) (21 hours)
b) 100% attendance of the seminars (6 seminars)
c) A minimum grade of 5 out of 10 in the final seminar assessment
d) Aminimum grade of 5 out of 10 in the final course examination
Honours Distinctions (Matrículas de Honor) will be awarded among the highest final marks. The minimum grade required to be eligible for this distinction is 9.5 out of 10.
The final evaluation will consist of 3 components:
1. Evaluation of clinical placements in the Primary Care Centre (CAP)
This assessment will be carried out by the clinical tutor at the CAP and will include the following components:
• Attendance and punctuality (maximum 10 points)
• Professional and ethical attitude (maximum 10 points)
• Communication with patients and the healthcare team (maximum 10 points)
• Clinical decision-making (maximum 10 points)
• Comprehensive care for individuals with multiple health conditions and polypharmacy (maximum 10 points)
• Application of deprescribing criteria and quaternary prevention (maximum 10 points)
• Preventive and health promotion interventions (maximum 10 points)
• Home care evaluation, considering the person’s family and community environment (maximum 10 points)
This component accounts for 35% of the final grade.
2. Evaluation of the seminars
The knowledge and skills acquired will be assessed through a short-answer test (2 to 4 questions) or a clinical case related to the seminar topic. This evaluation will take place at the end of each seminar (duration: 10 minutes).
In seminars using a flipped classroom methodology, those who actively participate in the presentation will be exempt from the final test and will receive the maximum score for that activity.
This component accounts for 15% of the final grade.
3. Evaluation through objective tests (multiple-choice)
• The exam will consist of multiple-choice questions and/or one short-answer question.
• Each question will have several possible answers, but only one correct answer. Unanswered questions will not be penalised; incorrect answers will subtract points.
• Students who have not completed 100% of the clinical placements and seminars may not sit the exam.
This component accounts for 50% of the final grade.
Non-assessable status
A student will be considered non-assessable in any of the following situations:
a) Failure to attend 100% of clinical placements at the CAP (21 hours)
b) Failure to attend all 6 seminars
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Final resit exam
Students who do not pass the final exam (score below 5), or who could not take it due to justified personal reasons, may take a resit examination.
Course failure
If a student does not pass the course, they must enrol again in the following academic year (or later).
If the student has completed 100% of the clinical placements at the CAP, they will not need to repeat them. However, attendance at the seminars will be required again in order to sit the final exam in the next call.
ENTREVISTA CLÍNICA
1.- Borrell F, Bosch JM. Entrevista clínica y relación asistencial. La atención centrada en la persona. Dins: Martin Zurro A, Cano Pérez JF, Gené Badia J. Atención primaria: principios, organización y métodos en medicina de familia. 8ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier; 2019. Disponible a: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010488765406709
2.-Buckman R. How to break bad news: a guide for health care professionals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
3.- Epstein Ronald M, Street Richard L. Shared Mind: Communication, Decision Making, and Autonomy in Serious Illness. Ann Fam Med. 2011; 9(5):454-461. Disponible a: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3185482
ATENCIÓ DOMICILIARIA
1.-Cegri F, Limón E. Paciente en el domicilio. Dins: Martin Zurro A, Cano Pérez JF, Gené Badia J. Atención Primaria. 8ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier; 2019. p. 486-509.
2.- Badia-Rafecas W, Bonilla-Ibern M, Buendia-Surroca C, Cegri-Lombardo F, Company-Fontané J, Contel-Segura JC, et al. Programa de millora de l’atenció al domicili des de l’atenció primària de salut. Barcelona: Institut Català de la Salut; 2010. Disponible a: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991000932029706709
3.- Corrales Nevado A, Alonso Babarro A, Rodríguez Lozano MA.Continuidad de cuidados, innovación y redefinición de papeles profesionales en la atención a pacientes crónicos y terminales. Informe SESPAS. Gaceta sanitaria. 2012; 26(S1): 63-68. Disponible a: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1016_j_gaceta_2011_09_032
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