23034 - PRACTICE III

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Esther Wall Gimeno

Trimester: First term

Credits: 12

• Spanish
• Catalan

The different subjects that make up the Practicum, guarantee the credits and clinical training hours as set out in Directive 2013 / 55EU of 20 November 2013. It includes all those activities within the teaching-learning process aimed at acquiring skills in the environment professional practice care. During its development, the student participates in clinical practice, as well as in group tutorials that guide him to reflect on clinical practice.

To be able to do Practicum III, it is necessary to have passed Practicums I and II.

Practicum III is made up of a practical block of internships outside Hospitals, Primary Care Centers and Socio-Health Centers, and another block for the elaboration of work related to internships.  

The clinical tutor will be from the collaborating entity where the student will carry out the internship and its main function will be to ensure the good development of the same respecting its formative purpose. This figure is presented as an indispensable tool in student learning during this period. Advice, support and tutoring ensures quality in the process of achieving theoretical and practical knowledge of the student, in an area of ​​transcendent importance, such as external internships.

The academic tutor will be a university professor who guides the student's learning process always from a teaching perspective and in contact with the clinical tutor.

Both tutors have the function of guaranteeing both the development of the competencies acquired by the students and their evaluation. This is a continuous and formative assessment, where both generic and specific competencies of each of the Internships are assessed.

In this subject, students put into practice the knowledge obtained during the theoretical learning of the degree and articulate the theory with practice by developing the critical capacity necessary for the training of professional questions.  

The main objective of the Practicum III course is direct contact with patients and the multidisciplinary team of 2nd and 3rd level hospitals, primary and specialized care centers and short and long-term socio-health centers. These institutions treat patients with different acute, sub-acute and chronic lesions of different levels of complexity and different areas of action in physiotherapy, in order to promote learning in the diagnosis and treatment of the different pathological processes in which it acts. the Physiotherapist.

This subject has methodological and digital resources to make possible its continuity in non-contact mode in the case of being necessary for reasons related to the Covid-19. This will facilitate the achievement of the knowledge and skills specified in this teaching plan. However, in relation to those practical contents of the subject in which the acquisition of procedural and attitudinal skills by students is essential, it can be considered, if the health situation requires it, the partial and temporary suspension of this with the consequent postponement in its continuity until the health situation allows it.

The supervised external internships aim for the student to develop and integrate, in a continuous and progressive way, the skills necessary to apply in a real professional context the knowledge acquired in the different subjects that make up the curriculum.

Practicum III integrates all the knowledge, abilities, skills, attitudes and values ​​acquired in all the subjects of the Degree in Physiotherapy and is carried out under the tutelage of qualified physiotherapists with extensive professional experience.

During the external internships, all those professional competencies will be developed that will enable the student to provide an effective physiotherapeutic treatment and a comprehensive assistance to the patient / user.

The contents that will be worked on in Practicum III are related to learning the practical model of physiotherapy intervention in the different specialties of the profession, such as prevention, evaluation, specific diagnosis, design of different intervention protocols and plans. custom performance.

The evaluation of the Practicum is based on the assessment of the competencies achieved by the students. It will be carried out continuously by the clinical tutor and a close follow-up of the academic tutor. This assessment is based on the basic and specific competencies of the Practicum.

The evaluating agents of the Practicum are the Academic Tutors and the Clinical Tutors:

• The Academic Tutor will evaluate the oral presentation and the development of the clinical case by means of an evaluation rubric.
• The Clinical Tutor will evaluate the attendance and the development of the practices through a rubric of assessment of the competences acquired.

The final evaluation of the subject Practicum is established through the result of the evaluation of the clinical tutor on the practices carried out in the care centers and of the individual works supervised by the academic tutor.

Attendance at the entire Practicum in the established periods and times is an essential requirement to be able to be evaluated and pass the subject.

Only the absence of 3 days of justified absence per Practicum period will be allowed.

In case the justified absences exceed the allowed days the student will suspend the Practicum period and will have to recover it in its entirety, in order to achieve the corresponding competencies.

Therefore, the final grade of the course will consist of three blocks with the following weighting.

To pass the course you will need:

• Pass each of the parts that make up the subject with a minimum grade of 5.
• Obtain an overall grade for the subject equal to or greater than 5.

In the case of suspending any part, the grade of the parts approved for recovery is saved (in the same academic year) and only the suspended part will have to be evaluated.

A “non-evaluable” student is considered to be a student who does not take the assessment tests or scheduled seminars or any of the training activities that are considered compulsory.

La full or partial copy in any of the learning activities it will mean a "Not Presented" in the subject, without option to present in the proof of recovery and without prejudice of the opening of a file for this reason.

The works submitted out of time they will be evaluated with the minimum grade of suspense, without feedback from the academic tutor. In these cases the student will be able to present the work in recovery period.

External internships not passed are recoverable within the period established in the months of June and July of the corresponding academic year.

According to UPF regulations, students will have the option of retrieving subjects that have obtained the qualification of 'suspended', which are the only ones that can be modified in the recovery process.

In exceptional cases ofserious breaches of the rules of external internships, the subject Practicum will be suspended, without the right to recovery, and the Degree Board and the Practicum team, reserves the right without prejudice to process the opening of a file for this reason .

A quantitative (from 0 to 10) and qualitative rating system (suspended, approved, excellent, honors registration) will be used according to RD 1125/2003. 

It is recommended to Practicum students that consult and read carefully the Regulations for External Internships of the ESCST and the Dossier of Practicum Students in Physiotherapy which can be accessed through the virtual classroom of each Practicum subject.

This subject has methodological and digital resources to make possible its continuity in non-contact mode in the case of being necessary for reasons related to the Covid-19. This will facilitate the achievement of the knowledge and skills specified in this teaching plan. However, in relation to those practical contents of the subject in which the acquisition of procedural and attitudinal skills by students is essential, it can be considered, if the health situation requires it, the partial and temporary suspension of this with the consequent postponement in its continuity until the health situation allows it.