General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Sara González Millán

Trimester: At quarters

Credits: 8

Teaching staff: 

Montserrat Girabent Farrés
Esther Wall Gimeno 
Sara González Millán 

Teaching languages


  • Catalan
  • Spanish

Skills


Basic skills
  • B2_F That students know how to apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional way and have the skills that are usually demonstrated by developing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of ​​study

     

  • B3 That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of ​​study), to make judgments that incorporate a reflection on relevant social, scientific and ethical issues

  • B4 That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences

  • B5 That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy

Specific skills
  • E14_F Incorporate the ethical and legal principles of the profession into professional practice, as well as integrate social and community aspects into decision-making

     

  • E15_F Participate in the development of physiotherapy care protocols based on scientific evidence, encouraging professional activities that stimulate research in physiotherapy

     

  • E19_F Know how to communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with users of the healthcare system, as well as with other professionals

     

Transversal competences
  • T2_F Demonstrate ability to organize and plan

     

Description


The Final Degree Project is conceived as the culmination, by the student, of a process of development of competences of the methodology of the intellectual work, of specialized reading, of integral application of different areas of the knowledge and of the expressive mastery of oral and written academic discourse.  

This subject involves the student carrying out a research project, a systematic review or a study on a topic of relevance in any of the specialties of physiotherapy. In the elaboration of the TFG the student will apply, integrate and develop the knowledge, capacities, competitions and abilities acquired in the rest of the subjects of the Degree of Physiotherapy. The TFG concludes with the presentation of a written report and the approval and public defense before a court as established in Royal Decree RD 1393/2007 of 29 October on the organization of official university education.

This subject follows the guidelines of the Final Work Regulations approved by the UPF Governing Council on March 2, 2011 and subsequent amendments, the last of February 2019.

The organization of the TFG is the responsibility of the TFG commission formed by the coordinator of the same and 3 vocal members, professors of the TecnoCampus. This one is in charge to assign the relation of professors directors and subjects of TFG, as well as to give seminars, to organize the courts, schedules and to communicate the qualifications to the students.

Learning outcomes


In the process of elaborating the report of TFG and defense before court the student will have to show to have acquired the results of learning of the different subjects of the Degree of Physiotherapy cursadas in previous courses: Of specific form the student / a must be able to perform autonomously,

  • Apply the scientific method to the various fields of health sciences: methodological design, records, databases and statistical analysis.
  • Use specific terminology related to technology, information and statistics applied to physiotherapy: data tables, graphs, diagrams, procedures, protocols, ...
  • Acquire bioethical criteria for the treatment of people with health problems. 
  • Acquire evidence-based physiotherapy criteria, critical analysis of knowledge.
  • Understand the importance of reasoning based on scientific evidence. Justification of the interventions based on the evidence that supports them.
  • Analyze the results of published evidence. It determines the degree of validity and applicability in the environment that must develop their intervention.
  • Apply the evidence-based medicine method to the various fields of physiotherapy: Research in a scientific database, critical analysis of studies, drawing conclusions for its clinical applicability.
  • Incorporate English as a language for learning and disseminating scientific knowledge. Use in Inter-professional communication. 
  • Develop a research project focused on treatment and / or prevention through physiotherapy.
  • Apply the scientific method to the various fields of physiotherapy: methodological design, records, databases and statistical analysis.
  • Understand substantial physiotherapy problems and propose hypotheses to design the methodological strategy for their scientific demonstration, which would lead to the best resolution of the identified problems.

Working methodology


This subject is based on project-oriented learning through the learning contract with the student. The subject is therefore structured in tutorials and seminars (face-to-face and online) and in the promotion of the study and autonomous work, both individually and in groups of the student.

Training activity

Hours

Tutorials and seminars

15

Study and independent work

185

Total

200

 

Contents


The specific contents of the Final Degree Project (TFG) are established according to the topic and modality (project, systematic review or study) that the student chooses. So that these allow each student to elaborate a work of investigation that gives answer of new knowledge in any one of the specialties of the physiotherapy. In the virtual classroom of the subject is the general guide and the scripts (annexes) with the indications for the elaboration of the TFG according to modality.

The directors of TFG, through tutorials, will guide the student in learning the scientific method on which the knowledge of physiotherapy based on scientific evidence is developed.

All students will be given, through face-to-face and / or online seminars, topics related to the different phases of the elaboration of a research work in physiotherapy,

  • Operation and regulations TFG
  • Sources of information and bibliographic search (BDD)
  • Bibliographic citation styles and bibliographic reference managers
  • Scientific method. Phases of the research process. Designs of studies in health sciences.
  • Systematic reviews
  • Statistical tools for research
  • Oral and written communication of a final degree project.

Learning activities


Each student will be assigned a director by the TFG committee, with whom one will be established apprenticeship contract. Through those of  tutorials the principal attends, facilitates and guides one or more students with the aim that each student develops a TFG following the scientific method, with academic roughness and according to the most current knowledge in each of the specialties in physiotherapy.

They will also be performed face-to-face seminars or online of monographic sessions that will give them tools for the elaboration of the TFG.

Evaluation system


The evaluation system has a formative component that consists on the one hand in the evaluation carried out by the director of TFG of the written report. Different evidences of the student's learning and improvement process will be collected through tutorials, follow-up of seminars and delivery of documents (initial TFG and final TFG) to the director, both in face-to-face and virtual follow-up. On the other hand, the written report will be evaluated externally by the members of the tribunal, who will also evaluate the oral defense of the TFG, as indicated in RD 1393/2007 of 29 October.   

The members of the panel and director will be appointed by the TFG committee as established in the UPF and ESCT TFG regulations.  

The following table summarizes the evaluation activities and the weighting of each of them in the calculation of the final grade of TFG. The subject Final Degree Project is approved with a 5/10. 

It is a necessary condition, in order to pass to the evaluation phase by the court (written report and TFG defense), that the student has a minimum grade of 5/10 in the evaluation of the final report by the director.

 

Evaluation activity

Weighting

Assessed skills

Seminars (TFG committee)

Tutorials (TFG Director)

10%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

Initial TFG (TFG Director)

10%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

Final TFG (Director TFG)

20%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

Final TFG (TFG Court)

35%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

TFG Defense (TFG Court)

25%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

 

Recovery

If the student does not pass the minimum criteria necessary to average the assessment activities, as set out in the previous paragraph, he / she will be suspended in the subject. If the mark of the Final Report assigned by the tutor does not reach 5/10, the student will not be able to pass to the phase of the Court.

On the other hand, it will only be possible to recover if the Final Report and / or the Defense of the TFG has been suspended, in which case only the part not passed will have to be recovered. If the qualification is Not presented, it will not be possible to opt for recovery, in accordance with the Academic Regulations for undergraduate studies at Pompeu Fabra University. The rest of the notes (seminars, initial report and tutorials) maintain their weight and are not likely to be recovered.

 

Evaluation activity

Weighting

Assessed skills

Final TFG (Director TFG)

20%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

Final TFG (TFG Court)

35%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

TFG Defense (TFG Court)

25%

CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CE14, CE15, CE19

Schedule

All the evaluation activities will have specific dates for completion and delivery, which will be communicated to the student at the beginning of the course through the Schedule.

REFERENCES


Basic

Argimón Pallás, JM & Jiménez Villa, J. (2019). Clinical and epidemiological research methods. Elsevier.

Thomas, JR, Nelson, JK, & Mata, MJ (2007). Research methods in physical activity. Paidotribo.

Martin, JLR, Tobias, A., & Seoane, T. (2006). Systematic reviews in the life sciences. Toledo: FISCAM.

Sánchez-Villegas, A. (2014). Friendly biostatistics. M. Á. Martínez-González, & FJ Faulín (Eds.). Madrid: Elsevier.

De Morton, NA (2009). The PEDro scale is a valid measure of the methodological quality of clinical trials: a demographic study. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, 55 (2), 129-133.

Moher, D., Liberati, A., Tetzlaff, J., & Altman, DG (2010). Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyzes: the PRISMA statement. Int J Surg, 8 (5), 336-341.

Liamputtong, P. (2010). Research methods in health: foundations for evidence-based practice.

Fletcher, RH, Fletcher, SW, & Fletcher, GS (2016). Clinical epidemiology. Wolters Kluwer.

Complementary

Herbert, Robert, et al. Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy-E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences, 2011.

De Larrucea, JR (2017). Introduction to research. In How to research: final degree project, master's thesis, doctoral thesis and other research work. (pp. 11-26). Profit.

Gama, ZAS, & Gómez-Conesa, A. (2010). Systematic reviews of epidemiological studies. An instrument for evidence in physiotherapy. Physiotherapy, 32 (1), 25-32.

González, IF, Urrútia, G., & Alonso-Coello, P. (2011). Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: conceptual bases and interpretation. Spanish Journal of Cardiology, 64 (8), 688-696.

Gisbert, JP, & Bonfill, X. (2004). How to perform, evaluate and use systematic reviews and meta-analyzes? Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 27 (3), 129-149.

Velez, RR, Echavez, JFM, & López, MEF (2013). A methodological proposal for conducting systematic reviews of literature in biomedical research (Methodology in conducting a systematic review of biomedical research). CES Movement and Health, 1 (1), 61-73.

CASPe critical reading program (various tools). Available in http://www.redcaspe.org

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