Medical Management
Code
11218
Academic unit
Nova Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
TRA - Population Health
Credits
3
Teacher in charge
Dr. Jorge Penedo
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
- Knowledge and understanding of the National Health Service
- Acquiring capacities to select proper information about the different levels of decision
- Acquiring capacities at professional level at different levels of an health institution
- Acquiring competences that allow the student to reach the necessary capacities to act at intermediate and high level of administration
Prerequisites
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o How to communicate in health organizations (2h)
Bibliography
Books:
- Wright J. Clinical Governance, Churchill Livingstone, 2003
Web-sites:
www.portaldasaude.pt/
www.acss.min-saude.pt
www.dgs.pt
http://www.nih.gov/
www.clinicalevidence.org
www.nice.org.uk
Teaching method
The unit will use a theoretical component and the analysis ans solution of clinical cases
There will be workshops oriented to the management of problems at the different levels of the institution
Evaluation method
Evaluation:
- Continuous evaluation 20%
- Final evaluation (multiple choice test) 80%
- Participation in 80% of the classes