Degree in Medicine
Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them for professional activities.
- 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
- 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.
| E1.1 | Specific | Know the structure and function of cells |
| E1.2 | Specific | Biomolecules |
| E1.3 | Specific | Metabolism |
| E1.4 | Specific | Metabolic regulation and integration |
| E1.5 | Specific | 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 | Understand the morphology, structure, and function of the skin, blood, circulatory, digestive, locomotor, reproductive, excretory, and respiratory systems; the endocrine system, the immune system, and the central and peripheral nervous system. |
| E1.14 | Specific | Growth, maturation and aging of the different apparatuses 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 analysis |
| E1.19 | Specific | Recognize the morphology and structure of tissue, organs and systems using macroscopic and microscopic methods and imaging techniques. |
| E1.20 | Specific | Perform functional tests, determine vital parameters and interpret them |
| E1.21 | Specific | Basic physical examination |
| E2.1 | Specific | 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 | 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 medical-legal documents |
| E2.10 | Specific | Know the fundamentals of medical ethics |
| E2.11 | Specific | Bioethics |
| E2.12 | Specific | Resolving 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 | Know how to approach professional practice while respecting the patient's autonomy, beliefs and culture |
| E2.16 | Specific | Know the principles and apply the methods of preventive medicine and public health |
| E2.17 | Specific | Risk factors and disease prevention |
| 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 illness, injury and accidents |
| E2.22 | Specific | Evaluation of care quality and patient safety strategies |
| E2.23 | Specific | Vaccines |
| E2.24 | Specific | Epidemiology |
| E2.25 | Specific | Demography |
| E2.26 | Specific | To understand healthcare planning and administration at the global, European, Spanish, and regional levels. |
| E2.27 | Specific | Know the economic and social implications of medical interventions, 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 | Know, critically assess and know how to use clinical and biomedical information technologies and sources to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate clinical, scientific and health information. |
| E2.32 | Specific | Understand the basic concepts of biostatistics and its 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 the medical literature |
| E2.35 | Specific | Knowing the history of health and illness |
| E2.36 | Specific | Know the existence and principles of alternative medicines |
| E2.37 | Specific | Autonomously operate a personal computer |
| E2.38 | Specific | Use search and retrieval systems for biomedical information |
| E2.39 | Specific | Know and manage clinical documentation procedures |
| E2.40 | Specific | Understand and critically interpret scientific texts |
| E2.41 | Specific | Know the principles of the scientific method, biomedical research and clinical trials |
| E2.42 | Specific | Know the principles of telemedicine |
| E2.43 | Specific | Know and manage the principles of evidence-based medicine |
| E2.44 | Specific | Know the aspects of communication with patients, family members and their social environment |
| E2.45 | Specific | Models of clinical relationship, interview, verbal and nonverbal communication and interferences |
| E2.46 | Specific | Delivering 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 | Make a public presentation, 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 major blood pathologies |
| E3.3 | Specific | Normal and pathological pregnancy and 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 | Know the tumor disease, its diagnosis and management |
| E3.10 | Specific | Recognize, diagnose, and guide the management of major ear, nose, and throat pathologies |
| 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 nephrourinary 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 | 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 | 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 | Child nutrition |
| E3.27 | Specific | Diagnosis and genetic counseling |
| E3.28 | Specific | Cognitive, emotional and psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence |
| E3.29 | Specific | 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 major poisonings |
| E3.33 | Specific | Palliative medicine |
| E3.34 | Specific | Recognize the characteristics of prevalent pathology in the elderly |
| E3.35 | Specific | Family and community medicine: the living 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 make a complete anamnesis, focused on the patient and oriented to the various |
| E3.38 | Specific | Know how to perform a physical examination by apparatus and systems, as well as a psychopathological examination, interpreting its meaning |
| E3.39 | Specific | Know how to assess changes in clinical parameters at different ages |
| E3.40 | Specific | Pregnancy screening and monitoring |
| 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 | Know the indications for biochemical, hematological, immunological, microbiological, pathological and imaging tests |
| E4.3 | Specific | Know the characteristics of tissues in 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 organs and systems |
| E4.7 | Specific | Biochemical, cytogenetic and molecular biology markers applied to clinical diagnosis |
| E4.8 | Specific | Know the fundamentals of microbiology and parasitology |
| E4.9 | Specific | Know the main microbiological and parasitological diagnostic techniques and interpret the results |
| E4.10 | Specific | Know the fundamentals of the interaction of radiation with the human body |
| E4.11 | Specific | Radiological image |
| E4.12 | Specific | Basic radiological semiology of the different devices and systems |
| E4.13 | Specific | Learn other diagnostic imaging techniques |
| E4.14 | Specific | Assess the indications and contraindications of radiological studies |
| E4.15 | Specific | Have the ability to apply radiation protection criteria in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with ionizing radiation |
| E4.16 | Specific | Know the main groups of drugs, doses, routes of administration and pharmacokinetics |
| E4.17 | Specific | Interactions and adverse effects |
| E4.18 | Specific | Prescription and drug monitoring |
| E4.19 | Specific | Pharmacology of the different organs and systems |
| E4.20 | Specific | Analgesic, antineoplastic, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory drugs |
| E4.21 | Specific | 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 | Understand the pathophysiology of wounds (including burns, frostbite, and other types of wounds) |
| E4.25 | Specific | Cicatrization |
| E4.26 | Specific | Surgical hemorrhage and thromboembolic prophylaxis |
| E4.27 | Specific | Know the general surgical indications, preoperative risk and postoperative complications |
| E4.28 | Specific | Transfusions and transplants |
| E4.29 | Specific | Know the principles and indications of radiotherapy |
| E4.30 | Specific | Know the fundamentals of rehabilitation, the promotion of personal autonomy, functional adaptation to/the environment, and other physical procedures in morbidity, to improve the 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 laboratory diagnostic 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 | Know 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 each patient's situation and 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 wound suturing |
| E5.1 | Specific | Pre-professional internships, in the form of an independent clinical rotation and with a final competency assessment, in Health Centers, Hospitals and other healthcare 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 |