General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Montserrat Girabent Farrés

Trimester: Third term

Credits: 10

Teaching staff: 

Anabel Casanovas Alvarez
Cristina Azogue Domingo 
Marta Perez Diez 

Teaching languages


  • Catalan
  • Spanish

Skills


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

Specific skills
  • E4_F Acquire the appropriate clinical experience that provides intellectual abilities and technical and manual skills, that facilitates the incorporation of ethical and professional values, and that develops the ability to integrate the knowledge acquired, so that, at the end of the studies, students know how to apply both to specific clinical cases in the hospital and outpatient setting, as well as actions in primary and community care

     

  • E8_F Execute, direct and coordinate the physiotherapy intervention plan, using its own therapeutic tools and taking into account the individuality of the user

     

  • E9_F Evaluate the evolution of the results obtained with the treatment in relation to the objectives set

     

  • E10_F Prepare the discharge report for physiotherapy care once the proposed objectives have been met

     

  • E13_F Ability to work in professional teams as a basic unit in which professionals and other staff of healthcare organizations are structured in a uni- or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way

     

  • E17_F Understand the importance of updating the knowledge, skills and abilities and attitudes that make up the professional competencies of the physiotherapist

     

  • E18_F Acquire clinical management skills that include the efficient use of health resources and develop activities of planning, management and control of care units where care is given in physiotherapy and its relationship with other health services

     

  • 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
  • T1_F Acquire the ability to communicate in a foreign language and work in an international context

     

  • T2_F Demonstrate ability to organize and plan

     

  • T3_F The student must be able to develop skills in interpersonal relationships and be able to work within an intra and interdisciplinary team

     

Description


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.

In order to be able to carry out Practicums IV, it is necessary to have passed Practicums I and II.

Practicum IV is made up of a practical block of external internships in specialized physiotherapy centers supervised by the clinical tutor of the institution and a block for the elaboration of two works related to the internships supervised by the academic tutor. a.

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 IV course is direct contact with patients and the multidisciplinary team in different areas of action in physiotherapy, where patients with different acute, subacute and chronic injuries of different levels of complexity are treated in order to to promote learning in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of the different pathological processes in which the Physiotherapist acts.

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. In this way, the achievement of the same knowledge and skills that are specified in this teaching plan will be ensured. 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.

 

Learning outcomes


- Assess the patient's physical and mental state. Determine the level of dysfunctions, limitations of the activity, individual and social.

- Analyze the patient's expectations regarding their evolution, demands and needs. Establish the intervention protocol through the practice of physical activity based on the joint negotiation between physiotherapist and patient.

- Apply technologies for the evolution of the patient. Incorporate new instruments of measures that facilitate the objectification of interventions. Participate in the validation of assessment tools for incorporation into clinical practice.

- Carry out the diagnosis of physiotherapy to determine the dysfunctions and disabilities that will require specific physiotherapy intervention.

- Evaluate benefits and risks by establishing an intervention criterion based on the priorities and effects pursued.

- Apply the appropriate therapies in each situation in order to obtain the highest benefit and the greatest effectiveness.

- Analyze the benefits produced by the interventions. Evaluation of results and adverse effects.

- Interact with other health and physical activity professionals to base an intervention plan based on the specific clinical diagnoses of each of the professions. Establish joint intervention objectives.

- Design and apply prevention programs through physical activity for subjects with risk factors or chronic pathology.

- Participate in health policies based on the practice of physical activity for the prevention of diseases.

- Develop business projects focused on treatment and prevention through the practice of physical activity for people with risk factors or chronic pathology.

 

Working methodology


- Internships outside healthcare centers during the period established in the academic calendar and according to the schedule agreed between the center and the Practicum Manager.

- Carrying out individual work (clinical case and poster) during the period of external internships.

- Individual face-to-face tutorials with the academic tutor by appointment, request by e-mail and confirmation of the tutorial.

- Non-contact tutorials for which the student will have telematic resources such as the e-mail of his / her academic tutor and the UPF intranet.

- Non-contact activities dedicated to the resolution of practical exercises based on data provided by the teacher of the subject to complete the specific training of the Practicum.

- Debates in the Forum of the virtual classroom of the subject Practicum IV

- Student self-assessment report.

- Satisfaction surveys of the subject Practicum IV

Contents


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.

The Practicum 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 in the Practicum are related to the learning of the practical model of the physiotherapy intervention in the different specialties of the profession, like prevention, the evaluation, the specific diagnosis, design of the different protocols of intervention and plans of custom performance.

Learning activities


The aim of these activities is for students to develop an active role in their learning process by encouraging collaborative learning as well as critical thinking in the face of situations common to the clinical practice of physiotherapy professionals. 

Students will perform 225 hours of external internships supervised by physiotherapists specializing in different fields of action; geriatrics, uro-gynecology, neurology, sports, pediatrics, cardio-respiratory, hippotherapy. 

Group tutorials will be carried out for advice on carrying out individual work. The individual works of Practicum IV consist of a Clinical Case of a process of physiotherapy care in a real patient of the practices carried out, chosen by the student himself with the advice of his clinical tutor and a presentation of a poster with all the most relevant information summarized from the clinical case.

The delivery of the works, clinical case and poster of practicum, will realize through the ecampus and of the virtual classroom taking into account the dates of delivery presented in the chronogram to the start of the asignatura.

Evaluation system


 

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 clinical case and poster using 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 IV 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: Clinical Case and Poster.

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

 

Evaluated activity         

Weighting

External practices

70%

Individual work Poster

10%

Individual work Clinical Case

20%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 note of the parts approved for recovery is saved and only the suspended part will have to be evaluated.

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

The total or partial copy in any of the learning activities 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.

 

Recovery period:

Students will have the option of retrieving individual work as long as they have submitted it within the established period. Papers submitted after the deadline will not be recoverable and will be grounds for suspension of the entire subject Practicum.

External internships not passed are recoverable within the period established for their recovery.

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.

Attendance at external internships is mandatory and is subject to the "Regulations for External Internships in Healthcare Institutions for UPF Students" and the "Regulations for External Internships for Students of the ESCST Degree in Physiotherapy (Annex to the regulations governing external internships for UPF students) "to which students access through the virtual classroom of each subject of the Practicum.

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