Specific Competencies of the Medicine Degree

Specific competencies that students must acquire during their studies in order to gain their final qualification. 

Specific competencies that students must acquire during their studies in order to gain their final qualification. 

1.1 – Good grasp of cellular structure and function.

            1.2 – Biomolecules.

            1.3 – Metabolism.

            1.4 – Metabolic regulation and integration.

            1.5 – Good grasp of basic principles of human nutrition.

            1.6 – Cell communication.

            1.7 – Excitable membranes.

            1.8 – Cell cycle.

            1.9 – Cell differentiation and proliferation.

            1.10 – Genetic information and regulation.

            1.11 – Heritage.

            1.12 – Embryonic development and organogenesis.

            1.13 – Understand the morphology, structure, and function of the skin, blood, organs, and systems: the circulatory, digestive, locomotor, reproductive, excretory, and respiratory systems, the endocrine system, the immune system, and the central and peripheral nervous system.  

            1.14 – Growth, maturity, and aging of the different systems and apparatus.

            1.15 – Homeostasis.

            1.16 – Adaptation to the environment.

            1.17 – Good grasp of basic laboratory materials and techniques.

            1.18 – Interpret routine clinical tests.

            1.19 – Recognize the morphology and structure of tissue, organs, and systems using macroscopic, microscopic, and imaging techniques.  

            1.20 – Perform functional tests, determine vital parameters, and interpret them.

            1.21 – Basic physical examination.

            2.1 – Legal foundations for the professional practice of medicine.

            2.2 – Informed consent.

            2.3 – Confidentiality.

            2.4 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide the management of mental and physical damage.

            2.5 – Social and legal implications of death.

            2.6 – Understand and recognize the normal evolution of cadavers.

            2.7 – Post-mortem diagnoses.

            2.8 – Foundations of medical criminology.

            2.9 – Ability to draw medical-legal documents.

            2.10 – Understand the basic principles of medical ethics.

            2.11 – Bioethics.

            2.12 – Resolution of ethical conflicts.

            2.13 – Application of the professional values of excellence, altruism, sense of duty, responsibility, integrity, and honesty in the professional practice of medicine. 

            2.14 – Recognize the importance of maintaining professional competency.

            2.15 – Develop a professional practice that respects the patients’ autonomy, beliefs, and culture. 

            2.16 – Understand the principles and apply the methods of preventive medicine and public health. 

            2.17 – Risk factors and disease prevention.

            2.18 – Recognize the determining factors of population health.

            2.19 – Health indicators.

            2.20 – Planning, preparation, and assessment of health care programs.

            2.21 –  Prevention and protection against diseases, injuries, and accidents.

            2.22 – Assess the quality of health care and patient’s’ safety strategies.

            2.23 – Vaccines.

            2.24 – Epidemiology.

            2.25 – Demography.

            2.26 – Understand health care planning and administration globally, in Europe, Spain, and the autonomous communities. 

            2.27 – Understand the socio-economic implications of medical practice in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. 

            2.28 – Health and environment.

            2.29 – Health safety.

            2.30 – Occupational health.

            2.31 – Understand, critically assess, and be able to use the technologies and different sources of clinical and biomedical information to obtain, organize, interpret, and communicate clinical, scientific, and medical information. 

            2.32 – Understand basic biostatistics and their application in medical sciences. 

            2.33 – Ability to design and conduct simple statistical analyses using computer programs and to interpret the results.  

            2.34 – Ability to understand and be able to interpret statistical data in the medical literature.

            2.35 – Understand the history of health and disease.

            2.36 – Understand the existence and principles of alternative medicines.

            2.37 – Ability to handle a personal computer.

            2.38 – Ability to use systems to search and retrieve biomedical information.

            2.39 – Good grasp of clinical documentation procedures.

            2.40 – Understanding and critical interpretation of scientific texts.

            2.41 – Understand the principles of the scientific method, biomedical research, and clinical trial.  

            2.42 – Understand the principles of telemedicine.

            2.43 – Understand and manage the principles of (best) evidence-based medicine.

            2.44 – Understand key aspects of communication with patients, their relatives, and their social environment.  

            2.45 – Clinical relationships models, interviews, verbal communication, non-verbal communication, and interference.

            2.46 – Communicating bad news.

            2.47 – Drafting clinical records, reports, instructions, and other documents in a style understandable to patients, their relatives, and other professionals.  

            2.48 – Publicly presenting scientific works and/or professional reports (oral or written). 

            3.1 – Cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence.

            3.2 – Understand the biological, psychological, and social foundations of personality and behavior.  

            3.3 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of psychiatric disorders.

            3.4 – Psychotherapy.

            3.5 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of the main types of intoxication.

            3.6 – Recognize the characteristics of prevalent pathologies in the elderly.

            3.7 – Family and community medicine: patients’ living environment, health promotion in family and community settings.  

            3.8 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of high-risk situations.

            3.9 – Know how to perform a complete anamnesis, patient-focused and taking into account multiple pathologies, and interpret its significance.  

            3.10 – Know how to perform a physical examination by apparatus and systems and a psycho-pathological examination, and interpret its significance.  

            3.11 – Know how to evaluate changes in clinical parameters for different age groups. 

            3.12 – Examination and monitoring of pregnancy.

            3.13 –  Establish an intervention plan focused on the needs of the patients and their social and family setting, adapted to the signs and symptoms that the patients present. 

            3.14 – Know how to perform basic and advanced life support.

            3.15 – Cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence.

            3.16 – Understand the biological, psychological, and social foundations of personality and behavior. 

            3.17 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of psychiatric disorders.

            3.18 – Psychotherapy.

            3.19 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of the main types of intoxication.

            3.20 – Palliative medicine.

            3.21 – Recognize the characteristics of prevalent pathologies in the elderly.

            3.22 – Family and community medicine: patients’ living environment, health promotion in family and community settings. 

            3.23 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of high-risk situations.

            3.24 – Know how to perform a complete anamnesis, patient-focused and taking into account multiple pathologies, and interpret its significance.  

            3.25 – Know how to perform a physical examination by apparatus and systems and a psycho-pathological examination, and interpret its significance. 

            3.26 – Know how to evaluate changes in clinical parameters for different age groups. 

            3.27 – Examination and monitoring of pregnancy.

            3.28 – Establish an intervention plan focused on the needs of the patients and their social and family setting, adapted to the signs and symptoms that the patients present. 

            3.29 – Know how to perform basic and advanced life support.

            3.30 – Palliative medicine.

            3.31 – Recognize the characteristics of prevalent pathologies in the elderly.

            3.32 – Family and community medicine: patients’ living environment, health promotion in family and community settings. 

            3.33 – Recognize, diagnose, and guide in the management of high-risk situations.

            3.34 – Know how to perform a complete anamnesis, patient-focused and taking into account multiple pathologies, and interpret its significance.  

            3.35 – Know how to perform a physical examination by apparatus and systems and a psycho-pathological examination, and interpret its significance. 

            3.36 – Know how to evaluate changes in clinical parameters for different age groups. 

            3.37 – Examination and monitoring of pregnancy.

            3.38 – Establish an intervention plan focused on the needs of the patients and their social and family setting, adapted to the signs and symptoms that the patients present. 

            3.39 – Know how to perform basic and advanced life support.

            3.40 – Establish an intervention plan focused on the needs of the patients and their social and family setting, adapted to the signs and symptoms that the patients present. 

            3.41 – Know how to perform basic and advanced life support.

            4.1 – Assess the risk/benefit ratio of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

            4.2 – Understand the indicators of biochemical, hematological, immunological, microbiological, pathological, and imaging tests. 

            4.3 – Understand the characteristics of tissues in different situations of injury, adaptation, and cellular death.  

            4.4. – Inflammation.

            4.5 – Alterations in cell growth.

            4.6 – Pathological anatomy of the different systems and apparatus.

            4.7 – Biochemical, cytogenetic, and molecular biology markers applied to clinical diagnosis. 

            4.8 – Understand the foundations of microbiology and parasitology.

            4.9 – Understand the principal techniques of microbiological and parasitological diagnosis and interpret their results.  

            4.10 – Understand the foundations of the interaction between radiation and the human organism. 

            4.11 – Radiological imaging.

            4.12 – Basic radiological semiology of the different systems and apparatus.

            4.13 – Understand other diagnostic imaging techniques.

            4.14 – Assess the indications and counter-indications for radiological examinations.

            4.15 – Ability to apply radiological protection criteria when diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with ionizing radiation are used. 

            4.16 – Know the main groups of pharmacological products, doses, routes of administration, and pharmacokinetics.  

            4.17 – Interactions and adverse effects.

            4.18 – Medication prescription and monitoring.

            4.19 – Pharmacology of the different systems and apparatus.

            4.20 – Analgesic, antineoplastic, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory medication.

            4.21 – Understand the basic principles of anesthesia and resuscitation.

            4.22 – Nutrition and dietotherapy.

            4.23 – Understand the main indicators in electrophysiological techniques (i.e., ECG, EEG, or EMG, among others).  

            4.24 – Understand the physiopathology of wounds (including burns, frostbite, and other types of injuries).  

            4.25 – Wound healing.

            4.26 – Surgical hemorrhage and thromboembolic prophylaxis.

            4.27 – Understand general surgical indicators, preoperative risk, and postoperative complications. 

            4.28 – Transfusions and transplants.

            4.29 – Understand the basic principles and indications of radiotherapy.

            4.30 – Understand the basic principles of rehabilitation, the promotion of personal autonomy, the functional adaptation to the environment, and other physical interventions in morbidity to improve quality of life.  

            4.31 – Understand how to obtain and process a biological sample for study using different diagnostic procedures. 

            4.32 – Good grasp of disinfection and sterilization techniques.

            4.33 – Know how to read and interpret a radiological image systematically.

            4.34 – Understand how to use different pharmacological drugs.

            4.35 – Know how to carry out and interpret an electrocardiogram and an electroencephalogram.

            4.36 – Know how to write prescriptions, adapted to the needs of each patient and relevant legal requirements.  

            4.37 – Assess the nutritional state of patients and devising dietary plans suited to different circumstances. 

            4.38 – Know how to conduct simple surgical procedures (i.e., cleaning, hemostasis, and suturing wounds). 

            4.39 – Know how to interpret the result of laboratory diagnostic tests.

            5.1 – Pre-professional practices: independent clinical rotations and a final assessment of competencies, conducted in health care centers, hospitals, and other health care settings. Rotations will enable students to practice their professional values, communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management, critical judgment, and the treatment of the most prevalent health issues in the areas of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, or psychiatry, among others. 

            5.2 – Final Degree Project: Transversal report or study whose subject should consider different academic subjects