Medicine (Clinical pratice)
Objectives
Estágio de Medicina Interna is a Practical Internship. The student is encouraged to apply in a day to day clinical practice all the general knowledge, skills and professional expertise acquired throughout the previous five years of the Medical Course. The 8-week rotation in clinical internal medicine is a hands-on period, where students, while integrated in a clinical team, exert clinical practice with progressive autonomy. Students must learn how to use protection equipment appropriate for each environment. This training provides final term students with the ability to perform the tasks required by a junior internal medicine doctor.
General characterization
Code
11144
Credits
9
Responsible teacher
Prof. Doutor Fernando Nolasco
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Bibliography
Harrison´s Textbook of Medicine; Oxford Textbook of Medicine
Teaching method
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 team. Presentations and discussions will exist daily. Two workshops and small group lectures will exist, focusing on issues of importance. Depending on global and local conditions these will occur either on site or as distance learning.
The 8-week rotation in clinical internal medicine enables students to develop clinical practice with progressive autonomy in hospital environment. It provides final term students with the ability to perform the tasks required by a junior internal medicine doctor.
The two workshops will take place at the NMS Central Building (Campo Santana). Other classes will take place in each hospital; the local teams are responsible for these ones.
All the workload is based on practice, permanently integrated and supervised by the clinical team. Workshops aim at an integrated view on areas relevant for the day-to-day practice and Emergency.
Evaluation method
Assessment and classification will be mandatory, and they will result from the daily practice, case presentation, attendance to voluntary workshops, and final report elaborated.
Clinical discussions and workshops will represent an important aspect both for the clinical practice and for the final evaluation. The final written report, after being discussed with the tutor, signed by the student and tutor, will be sent by email in .pdf to the secretary.
Subject matter
Students must work daily on the wards, emergency and outpatients, where they will acquire the proficiency to interview, perform a physical examination, select exams, propose a diagnosis, propose a treatment, and fully integrate with the clinical team.