Medicine (Clinical pratice)
Code
11144
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
MC
Credits
9
Teacher in charge
Prof. Doutor Fernando Nolasco
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
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The 8 weeks rotation in clinical internal medicine is a hands on period, where students, while integrated in a clinical firm, exerts clinical practice with progressive autonomy, and provides final term students with the ability to perform the task required by a junior internal medicine doctor. (1000 caracteres) |
Prerequisites
Subject matter
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Students must work daily on the wards, emergency and outpatients, where they will acquire the profiency to interview, do a physical exam, select exams, propose a diagnosis, propose a treatment, and fully integrate with the clinical firm. (1000 caracteres) |
Bibliography
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Harrison´s Textbook of Medicine |
Teaching method
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Teaching is based on hands-on work during 8 weeks, on the ward, the out patients clinics, and emergency. Each patient will be discussed with the tutor, and the clinical firm. Presentations and discussions will exist on a daily basis. A few seminars and small group lectures will exist, focusing on issues of importance. |
Evaluation method
Assesment and classification will exist, and will result from the daily practice, case presentation, and final report produced