Clinical Education V

Scholar Year: 2022/2023

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Maria Gabriela de Magalhães Colaço Head Aldina Augusta de Lucena Colaborador Isabel Carolina de Carvalho Bastos de Almeida Colaborador Maria Margarida Pires da Costa Sequeira Antão Colaborador Rafael Filipe Belga de Assunção Colaborador Adelaide Conceição Rodrigues Fonseca Colaborador Maria Leonor Lopes Gomes Madureira Colaborador Paula Alexandre Nobre Martins Sesinando Agulheiro Colaborador Rubina Luisa Teixeira Moniz Colaborador Sandra Isabel Rei dos Santos Rodrigues Colaborador Sandra Maria Salvado Crespo Sala Pagou Colaborador Teresa Luís Dias Colaborador Ângela Patrícia Águas Bonaparte Vieira Colaborador Teresa Paula Cardoso Ribeiro da Costa Mimoso Gestor de Ano

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL TC S E EL OT TPL O OT/PL Type of classes 12,86 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Estágio Totals 1 12,86 Adelaide Fonseca   0,33 Aldina Lucena   0,66 Ângela Vieira   0,13 Gabriela Colaço   2,66 Isabel Almeida   2,00 Leonor Madureira   0,33 Margarida Sequeira   2,00 Paula Agulheiro   0,13 Rafael Assunção   0,66 Rubina Moniz   0,13 Sandra Crespo   0,13 Sandra Rodrigues   0,26 Teresa Dias   0,27

Teaching language

Portuguese/English

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

At the end of the curricular unit, the student must demonstrate:
Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical basis regarding the assessment of health problems and needs of patients/populations
Ability to define physiotherapy goals and measurable objectives in partnership with patients.
Ability to make informed decisions about the physiotherapy diagnosis, based on clinical reasoning and patient’s expectations
Ability to define the functional prognosis and to establish the rationale for physiotherapy intervention
Ability to select the most effective strategies based on the best evidence available, best physiotherapy practice and patient’s preferences
Ability to select the adequate indicators to evaluate treatment effectiveness
Ability to implement a safe and effective treatment program
Critical and autonomous thinking about the outcomes
Communicate effectively with patients, carers and other staff
Ability to assume the responsibility for the care provided, in full respect for patient’s rights, dignity and individuality
Ability to maintain clinical records according to best practice
Ability to plan for owns continuous professional development
Ability to identify improvement opportunities in the clinical context
Ability to use clinical audit as an improvement tool

Syllabus

This curricular unit is focused on the development of clinical skills and reasoning in clinical contexts and also on critical thinking and self-development. Students will be presented with patients in mandatory areas (musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory or neurological conditions) or optional areas (geriatric, paediatrics, mental health, sports or community):
Activity 1: Continuous improvement of care: critical thinking about the service planning and management and strategies available to collect patient views.
Activity 2: Patient safety- Learning from incidents, near misses and errors: Record and critical thinking about errors and/or incidents and how they are dealt with in the clinical context
Activity 3: Clinical indicators: Identification of relevant clinical indicators to the clinical context and how they may be beneficial to patients
Activity 4: Clinical records: Record and critically think about the different purposes of clinical records
Activity 5: Full cycle intervention in at least 5 patients with different conditions.
Activity 6: How can I improve the care I provide?
Identification of opportunities for improvement in the clinical placement and development of an audit project.
Identification of educational needs and development of the learning contract.
Identification of opportunities for improvement in the clinical placement and development of an audit project.
Identification of educational needs and development of the learning contract.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

This course focuses on the development of assessment, intervention and reasoning skills and on critical reflection and self-development, in the context of real practice. The student will have the opportunity to develop the skills through the experience with patients in one of the mandatory areas (musculoskeletal, cardio-respiratory and neurological conditions) or elective areas (paediatrics, geriatrics, community, mental health, sport…). Additionally the contents facilitate the final year student critical reflection on own performance and to plan self-development and also increase his awareness about the importance of proper management of errors / incidents to a culture of safety in the provision of care and to the individual responsibilities in clinical governance and quality in health. The preparation of the draft audit results from the identification of an improvement opportunity within the context of care and uses research and critical analysis of the literature skills.

Teaching methodologies

This curricular unit is focused on the development of clinical skills and reasoning in clinical contexts and also on critical thinking and self-development. Students will be presented with patients in mandatory areas (musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory or neurological conditions) or optional areas (geriatric, paediatrics, mental health, sports or community).

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

The development in each student of the expected competency profile at the end of the degree is the result of a collaborative work between the student, the clinical educator and teacher of ESS, promoting increased autonomy of students in the context of professional practice.
Learning and teaching methodologies include learning in clinical setting through professional practice with patients (children, adults or elderly) with different clinical conditions, using a collaborative model (2 students / clinical educator), under permanent supervision from the Clinical educator and monitoring by the teaching staff at ESS_IPS.
The methods used include instruments that define activities to be undertaken, which guide students in the development of the expected competencies and facilitate feedback from the clinical educator. The performance criteria represent a reference framework for the qualified physical therapy practice, allowing students to understand what they have to develop and guiding clinical educators to the relevant aspects they should consider for feedback and assessment.
The learning contract, is a central element, that organizes the whole process of learning in the context of professional practice by promoting students self-management skills, a key element their personal and professional development. It focuses on self-evaluation and planning of learning activities, according to the skills to be developed. It also allows the clinical educator to know the student and to facilitate the learning process.
The logbook includes a set of activities, according to the areas and target skills of the course ensuring equity between students learning in different contexts. It gives students the opportunity to develop and / or demonstrate the skills already in place.
The Performance Evaluation is meant to express the student's performance in the different areas of competence during the clinical placement.
The clinical audit project is discussed and student must demonstrate the relevance of the topic, to justify the standards used and the methodology defined

Assessment methodologies and evidences

For the successful completion of this unit, the student must have 9.5/20 in each of the following activities:
Clinical performance assessment;
Learning contract assessment;
Clinical audit project assessment (written project and discussion);
Logbook assessment;

The classification of this unit is calculated based on the classifications obtained in each of the following activities:
Clinical performance assessment and Learning contract assessment; (40%)
Clinical audit project assessment (45%)
Logbook assessment (15%).

Attendance system

the student must attend 90% of the contact hours

Keywords

Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine > Physical medicine > Physiotherapy

Mandatory Bibliography

Observations

Additional references for this unit are dependent on the specific clinical area where the placement takes place