Professional Development I

Scholar Year: 2022/2023

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Carla Mendes Pereira Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL TC S E EL OT TPL O OT/PL Type of classes ,93 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical Totals 1 0,93

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

At the end of the unit the students should demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
- Ability to analyze their professional competences according to the profile of physiotherapists graduated in the Health School of Setubal;
- Ability to analyze their learning style, learning strategies and academic performance;
- Ability to design a learning plan according to the profile of physiotherapists graduated in the Health School of Setubal, as well as the needs identified through reflection.

Syllabus

The program of the unit is structured in two areas:
1) Reflection about the learning process and professional development. Themes related to the development of a learning portfolio and strategies (e.g. time management, writing skills, reflective learning) to optimize academic success were discussed.
2) Reflection about the role of reflection for the development of emphatic skills, in order to understand the patients' perspectives and the impact of diseases/ illness.

Program:
- Skills for self-directed learning:model of self-evaluation of the academic performance; time management; planning/preparation for practical assessments; learning portfolio and professional portfolio;
- Model for the development of the capacity for reflection, observation and empathy.

Teaching methodologies

Teaching strategies will include seminars, online tutorials and individual work.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

This unit includes two assessment types: formative and summative.
Formative assessment occurs during the individual presentation of the learning portfolio in online tutorials (at the end of module 3).
For approval in the unit, the student must complete successfully (with a grade > 9,5/20) a learning portfolio. The assessment is individual.
In exam, students develop a learning portfolio.

Attendance system

Nothing to report

Mandatory Bibliography

Observations

During the unit other learning resources will be suggested, including literacy resources.

This unit description was updated and approved according to the containment measures due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (under Order No. 55 of the President of the Polytechnic
Institute of Setúbal of 11 March 2020).