Degree in Medicine

Competencies

Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them to perform professional activities.

Basic skills
  • CB1. That the student has demonstrated that he or she possesses and understands knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education and is usually at a level that, while supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of his or her field of study.
  • CB2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
  • CB3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
  • CB4. That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences
  • CB5. That students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy

General skills
  • CG1. Recognize the essential elements of the medical profession, including ethical principles, legal responsibilities, and patient-centered practice.
  • CG2. Understand the importance of such principles for the benefit of the patient, society, and the profession, with special attention to professional confidentiality.
  • CG3. Know how to apply the principle of social justice to professional practice and understand the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
  • CG4. Develop professional practice with respect for patient autonomy, beliefs, and culture.
  • CG5. Recognize one's own limitations and the need to maintain and update one's professional competence, placing special emphasis on independent learning of new knowledge and techniques and on the motivation for quality.
  • CG6. Develop professional practice with respect for other health professionals, acquiring teamwork skills.
  • CG7. Understand and recognize the normal structure and function of the human body at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, and systems levels, at different stages of life and in both sexes.
  • CG8. Recognize the bases of normal human behavior and its alterations.
  • CG9. Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms, and manifestations of disease on the structure and function of the human body.
  • CG10. Understand and recognize the causative agents and risk factors that determine health conditions and disease development.
  • CG11. Understand and recognize the effects of growth, development, and aging on the individual and their social environment.
  • CG12. Understand the fundamentals of action, indications, and efficacy of therapeutic interventions, based on available scientific evidence.
  • CG13. Obtain and prepare a medical history containing all relevant information.
  • CG14. Perform a physical examination and a mental assessment.
  • CG15. Be able to make an initial diagnostic judgment and establish a reasoned diagnostic strategy.
  • CG16. Recognize and treat life-threatening situations and those requiring immediate attention.
  • CG17. Establish diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, applying principles based on the best possible information and under clinical safety conditions.
  • CG18. Indicate the most appropriate therapy for the most prevalent acute and chronic processes, as well as for patients in the terminal phase.
  • CG19. Plan and propose preventive measures appropriate to each clinical situation.
  • CG20. Acquire adequate clinical experience in hospitals, health centers, or other healthcare institutions, under supervision, as well as basic knowledge of patient-centered clinical management and the appropriate use of tests, medications, and other healthcare system resources.
  • CG21. Recognize the determinants of health in the population, both genetic and those dependent on sex and lifestyle, demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological, and cultural.
  • CG22. Assume their role in prevention and protection against illness, injury, or accident, and in maintaining and promoting health, both at the individual and community levels.
  • CG23. Recognize their role in multiprofessional teams, assuming leadership when appropriate, both in the provision of health care and in health promotion interventions.
  • CG24. Obtain and use epidemiological data and assess trends and risks for health decision-making.
  • CG25. Understand national and international health organizations and the environments and conditions of different health systems.
  • CG26. Basic knowledge of the National Health System and health legislation
  • CG27. Listen carefully, obtain and synthesize relevant information about the patient's problems, and understand the content of this information.
  • CG28. Write clinical histories and other medical records in a way that is understandable to third parties
  • CG29. Communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with patients, family members, the media, and other professionals.
  • CG30. Establish good interpersonal communication skills that enable you to address patients, family members, the media, and other professionals efficiently and with empathy.
  • CG31. Understand, critically assess, and use sources of clinical and biomedical information to obtain, organize, interpret, and communicate scientific and healthcare information.
  • CG32. Know how to use information and communication technologies in clinical, therapeutic, preventive, and research activities.
  • CG33. Maintain and use patient information records for subsequent analysis, preserving data confidentiality.
  • CG34. In professional activity, maintain a critical, creative, and research-oriented perspective, with constructive skepticism.
  • CG35. Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thinking in the study, prevention, and management of diseases.
  • CG36. Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem-solving, following the scientific method.
  • CG37. Acquire basic training for research activities.

Specific skills
  • E1.1 Specific: To know the structure and function of the cell
  • E1.2 Specific Biomolecules
  • E1.3 Specific Metabolism
  • E1.4 Specific Metabolic Regulation and Integration
  • E1.5 Specific: To know the basic principles of human nutrition
  • E1.6 Specific Cellular Communication
  • E1.7 Specific Excitable Membranes
  • E1.8 Specific Cell Cycle
  • E1.9 Specific Cell Differentiation and Proliferation
  • E1.10 Specific Gene Information, Expression and Regulation
  • E1.11 Specific Inheritance
  • E1.12 Specific Embryonic development and organogenesis
  • E1.13 Specific To know the morphology, structure and function of the skin, blood, circulatory, digestive, locomotor, reproductive, excretory and respiratory systems; endocrine system, immune system and central and peripheral nervous system
  • E1.14 Specific Growth, maturation and aging of the different organs and systems
  • E1.15 Specific Homeostasis
  • E1.16 Specific Adaptation to the environment
  • E1.17 Specific: Handle basic laboratory materials and techniques
  • E1.18 Specific Interpreting a normal analytical
  • E1.19 Specific Recognize using macroscopic and microscopic methods and imaging techniques the morphology and structure of tissues, organs and systems
  • E1.20 Specific: Perform functional tests, determine vital parameters and interpret them
  • E1.21 Specific Basic physical examination
  • E2.1 Specific To know the legal foundations of the practice of the medical profession
  • E2.2 Specific Informed Consent
  • E2.3 Specific Confidentiality
  • E2.4 Specific: Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of physical and mental damage
  • E2.5 Specific Social and legal implications of death
  • E2.6 Specific To know and recognize the normal evolution of the corpse
  • E2.7 Specific Postmortem Diagnosis
  • E2.8 Specific Fundamentals of medical criminology
  • E2.9 Specific: Be able to draft medico-legal documents
  • E2.10 Specific: To know the fundamentals of medical ethics
  • E2.11 Specific Bioethics
  • E2.12 Specific: Resolve ethical conflicts
  • E2.13 Specific Apply the professional values of excellence, altruism, sense of duty, responsibility, integrity and honesty to the practice of the profession
  • E2.14 Specific Recognize the need to maintain professional competence
  • E2.15 Specific: Knowing how to approach professional practice respecting the patient's autonomy, beliefs and culture
  • E2.16 Specific To know the principles and apply the methods of preventive medicine and public health
  • E2.17 Specific Risk factors and prevention of the disease
  • E2.18 Specific Recognize the determinants of population health
  • E2.19 Specific Health Indicators
  • E2.20 Specific Planning, programming and evaluation of health programs
  • E2.21 Specific Prevention and protection against diseases, injuries and accidents
  • E2.22 Specific Evaluation of the quality of care and patient safety strategies
  • E2.23 Specific Vaccines
  • E2.24 Specific Epidemiology
  • E2.25 Specific Demography
  • E2.26 Specific: To know health planning and administration at the global, European, Spanish and regional levels
  • E2.27 Specific: To understand the economic and social implications of medical practice, considering criteria of effectiveness and efficiency
  • E2.28 Specific Health and Environment
  • E2.29 Specific Food Safety
  • E2.30 Specific Occupational Health
  • E2.31 Specific To know, critically assess and know how to use clinical and biomedical information technologies and sources, in order to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate clinical, scientific and health information
  • E2.32 Specific: To know the basic concepts of biostatistics and their application to medical sciences
  • E2.33 Specific Be able to design and carry out simple statistical studies using computer programs and interpret the results
  • E2.34 Specific: Understand and interpret statistical data in medical literature
  • E2.35 Specific: Knowing the history of health and illness
  • E2.36 Specific To know the existence and principles of alternative medicines
  • E2.37 Specific: Operate a personal computer independently
  • E2.38 Specific Use of biomedical information search and retrieval systems
  • E2.39 Specific: Know and manage clinical documentation procedures
  • E2.40 Specific: Understand and critically interpret scientific texts
  • E2.41 Specific: To know the principles of the scientific method, biomedical research and clinical trials
  • E2.42 Specific: To know the principles of telemedicine
  • E2.43 Specific To know and manage the principles of evidence-based medicine
  • E2.44 Specific: To know the aspects of communication with patients, family members and their social environment
  • E2.45 Specific Models of clinical relationship, interview, verbal and non-verbal communication and interferences
  • E2.46 Specific: Giving bad news
  • E2.47 Specific: Write histories, reports, instructions, and other records in a way that is understandable to patients, family members, and other professionals
  • E2.48 Specific: To give a public presentation, both oral and written, of scientific works and/or professional reports
  • E3.1 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main skin pathologies
  • E3.2 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main blood pathologies
  • E3.3 Specific Pregnancy and normal and pathological childbirth
  • E3.4 Specific Puerperium
  • E3.5 Specific Sexually transmitted diseases
  • E3.6 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main gynecological pathologies
  • E3.7 Specific Contraception and Fertilization
  • E3.8 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main ophthalmological pathologies
  • E3.9 Specific: To know the tumor disease, its diagnosis and management
  • E3.10 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the ear, nose and throat
  • E3.11 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main cardiocirculatory pathologies
  • E3.12 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the digestive system
  • E3.13 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main nephrurinary pathologies
  • E3.14 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the locomotor system
  • E3.15 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the respiratory system
  • E3.16 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the endocrine system
  • E3.17 Specific Nutritional Pathologies
  • E3.18 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the central and peripheral nervous system
  • E3.19 Specific: To know the main infectious agents and their mechanisms of action
  • E3.20 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main infectious pathologies in the different organs and systems
  • E3.21 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pathologies of the immune system
  • E3.22 Specific To know the morphofunctional characteristics of the newborn, the child and the adolescent
  • E3.23 Specific Growth
  • E3.24 Specific Premature Newborn
  • E3.25 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main pediatric pathologies
  • E3.26 Specific Infant Nutrition
  • E3.27 Specific Genetic diagnosis and counseling
  • E3.28 Specific Cognitive, emotional and psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence
  • E3.29 Specific To know the biological, psychological and social foundations of personality and behavior
  • E3.30 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of psychiatric disorders
  • E3.31 Specific Psychotherapy
  • E3.32 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of the main poisonings
  • E3.33 Specific palliative medicine
  • E3.34 Specific Recognize the characteristics of the prevalent pathology in the elderly
  • E3.35 Specific Family and Community Medicine: life environment of the sick person, health promotion in the family and community setting
  • E3.36 Specific Recognize, diagnose and guide the management of life-threatening situations
  • E3.37 Specific Know how to conduct a complete anamnesis, focused on the patient and oriented towards the various
  • E3.38 Specific: Know how to perform a physical examination by systems and apparatuses, as well as a psychopathological examination, interpreting its meaning
  • E3.39 Specific: Knowing how to assess the modifications of clinical parameters at different ages
  • E3.40 Specific Exploration and monitoring of pregnancy
  • E3.41 Specific Establish an action plan, focused on the needs of the patient and the family and social environment, consistent with the patient's symptoms and signs
  • E3.42 Specific: Know how to perform basic and advanced life support maneuvers
  • E4.1 Specific: Assess the risk/benefit ratio of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
  • E4.2 Specific To know the indications of biochemical, hematological, immunological, microbiological, anatomopathological and imaging tests
  • E4.3 Specific To know the characteristics of tissues in the different situations of injury, adaptation and cell death
  • E4.4 Specific Inflammation
  • E4.5 Specific Alterations in cell growth
  • E4.6 Specific Pathological anatomy of the different systems and apparatuses
  • E4.7 Specific Biochemical, cytogenetic and molecular biology markers applied to clinical diagnosis
  • E4.8 Specific: To know the fundamentals of microbiology and parasitology
  • E4.9 Specific: To know the main microbiological and parasitological diagnostic techniques and to interpret the results
  • E4.10 Specific To know the fundamentals of the interaction of radiation with the human organism
  • E4.11 Specific Radiological Image
  • E4.12 Specific Basic radiological semiology of the different apparatuses and systems
  • E4.13 Specific: To know other diagnostic imaging techniques
  • E4.14 Specific: Assess the indications and contraindications of radiological studies
  • E4.15 Specific: To have the ability to apply radiological protection criteria in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with ionizing radiation
  • E4.16 Specific Knowledge of the main drug groups, doses, routes of administration and pharmacokinetics
  • E4.17 Specific Interactions and adverse effects
  • E4.18 Specific Prescription and pharmacovigilance
  • E4.19 Specific Pharmacology of the different organs and systems
  • E4.20 Specific Analgesic, antineoplastic, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory drugs
  • E4.21 Specific: To know the general principles of anesthesia and resuscitation
  • E4.22 Specific Nutrition and Diet Therapy
  • E4.23 Specific: Know the main indications of electrophysiological techniques (ECG, EEG, EMG, and others)
  • E4.24 Specific Knowledge of the pathophysiology of wounds (including burns, frostbite and other types of wounds)
  • E4.25 Specific Healing
  • E4.26 Specific Surgical hemorrhage and thromboembolic prophylaxis
  • E4.27 Specific: To know the general surgical indications, the preoperative risk and the postoperative complications
  • E4.28 Specific Transfusions and transplants
  • E4.29 Specific: To know the principles and indications of radiotherapy
  • E4.30 Specific To know the fundamentals of rehabilitation, the promotion of personal autonomy, the functional adaptation of/to the environment, and other physical procedures in morbidity, for the improvement of quality of life
  • E4.31 Specific: Know how to obtain and process a biological sample for study using different diagnostic procedures
  • E4.32 Specific Know how to interpret the results of diagnostic laboratory tests
  • E4.33 Specific: Manage disinfection and sterilization techniques
  • E4.34 Specific: Know how to interpret a radiological image through systematic reading
  • E4.35 Specific: Knowing how to use the various drugs appropriately
  • E4.36 Specific: Know how to perform and interpret an electrocardiogram and an electroencephalogram
  • E4.37 Specific: Correctly write medical prescriptions, adapted to the situation of each patient and the legal requirements
  • E4.38 Specific: Assess nutritional status and develop a diet appropriate to different circumstances
  • E4.39 Specific Practice basic surgical procedures: cleaning, hemostasis and suturing of wounds
  • E5.1 Specific Pre-professional practices, in the form of an independent clinical rotation and with a final competency assessment, in Health Centers, Hospitals and other care centers, allowing the incorporation of professional values, healthcare communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgment, as well as attention to the most prevalent health problems in the areas of Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and other clinical areas