Curricular Unit:			Code:
Clinical Education V (Professionalizing Internship)			1025EC5
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
4	Undergraduate	Physiotherapy	30 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Winter Semester		Portuguese	390
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
In the Internship, the student should always have in mind the perspective that care can/should include the client, family, group and community to become a capable Physiotherapist in the area of care provision and management. The student must be able to identify and execute different techniques, to know their indications and contraindications, as well as to integrate the knowledge formulating an adequate clinical reasoning and based on the best available evidence to reach the established objectives. Within this paradigm, the student should develop education and health promotion strategies in different clinical contexts.
Syllabus:
Understand the operation/dynamics of the service; Establish therapeutic relationships; Develop education and health promotion strategies; Provide global care, showing compassion and empathy; Correctly execute the learned rules; Integrate theoretical knowledge into clinical practice, effectively managing the time and resources available; Understand the prioritization of care; Apply appropriate registration methodologies; Demonstrate relationship and communication skills with the patient/family/members of the multidisciplinary team; Demonstrate a critical-reflexive attitude in practices; Foster the development of clinical reasoning; Integrate professional ethics and deontology in the practice of care; Develop skills at the level of differential diagnosis, being also able to define appropriate prognoses.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Theoretical-practical: When transmitting knowledge and encouraging discussion on scientific research methodologies, research project development standards and descriptive and inductive data analysis methodology, it is possible for students to acquire the ability to critically analyse this process and foster the future professional development in the elaboration of their final graduation project. Internship: By making clinical practice possible, it is intended that the student in the internship acquire an adequate clinical reasoning in order to be able to select and execute the different techniques referring to the different teaching units in an appropriate way for each clinical case. The student must identify the indications and contraindications of the selected techniques.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
It comprises oriented clinical practice, where students should apply the learned techniques of assessment and treatment in physiotherapy, in real clinical cases and in different contexts. The evaluation will include the student's practical performance, the elaboration of an internship dossier, with a depth analysis of the various case studies. The final evaluation also includes the classification of the different supervisions (evaluation of clinical dossiers and supervision meetings).
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
Through the supervised clinical practice, students should apply the learned techniques of assessment and treatment in physiotherapy, in real clinical cases and in different contexts, formulating an adequate clinical reasoning that allows them to evaluate and treat patients in real clinical situations in an increasing autonomous way.
Reading:
Petty, N. (2007). Exame e Avaliação Neuromusculoesquelética – Um Manual para Terapeutas, 3ª edição, Loures: Lusodidacta. Petty, N. e Moore, A. (2007). Princípios de Intervenção e Tratamento dos Sistema Neuromusculoesquelético – Um Guia para Terapeutas, 2ª edição, Loures: Lusodidacta. Hicks,CM (2006) Métodos de Investigação para Terapeutas Clínicos – Concepção de Projectos de Aplicação e Análise, Lusociência – Edições Técnicas e Científicas. Análise de diversos artigos científicos
Lecturer (* Responsible):
Flávia Lima (flavia@ufp.edu.pt) Helder Fonseca (hfonseca@ufp.edu.pt) Isabel Moreira Silva (isabelmsilva@ufp.edu.pt) Mariana Cervaens (cervaens@ufp.edu.pt)