Curricular Unit:			Code:
Clinical Practice I			146PCL1
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
2	Undergraduate	Clinical Analyses and Public Health	5 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese	65
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The intention of this classe is to provide students with the appropriate laboratory practice to achieve this: Spoon, separate and adequately preserve biological samples; Understand and correctly implement the programs quality control; Properly perform biochemical most common in the routine laboratory; critically interpret the results according to the usual profile of the patient / user in question from the patient concerned. Participation in the Ambultory Project of Oral and Public Health (PASOP).
Syllabus:
Execute all kind of samples collections that they are qualified for to do. Collect all the information related to patients and samples that are necessary for a good development of the posterior analytical procedures. Execute by their own the basic laboratorial techniques of the main areas of the clinical analysis laboratory (Biochemistry, Hematology, Bacteriology). Implement new laboratorial techniques, evaluating its performance (accuracy, precision, etc.). Value the procedures for quality assurance of the analytical results. Interpret the clinico-pathological significance of the main laboratorial analytical alterations. Understand all the work-chain that mediates between the reception of the patients and the samples collection to the emission of analytical bulletins, and the role of all the intervening people in those steps. Evaluation of analytical reports and clinical cases.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The syllabus comprising the curricular unit will meet the requirements that are set out in the objectives, and it provides students with the necessary lessons (concepts, techniques, methodologies) to be able to achieve the objectives set out above. All information provided aims to sensitize students to the importance of: Reception of the user/patient; Organic products collect; Separation and preservation of samples; Equipment calibration and control; Analysis performance; Validation and issuance of bulletins; Problems and advantages of the statistical sampling process; Measures calculating of location, dispersion, among others, enabling a first descriptive analysis of the data collected; Appropriate statistic techniques to the information processing, according to the type of data.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The methodologies used are lecture, inductive and deductive methods. Also the methodology is used for educational simulation, this is the teaching/learning process is performed in conditions close to laboratory reality. Students will solve practical cases, which are similar to situations they will have in your professional life, which will, using various analytical techniques, develop their critical spirit. The evaluation of the course includes, in addition to continuous assessment, student lab performance.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The objectives of the curricular unit are achieved by the use of the methodology referred since the expository component provides guidance on the systematic study and the practice exercitation promotes the practical application of concepts and theories studied within the curricular unit. In addition, the use of a set of materials study purposely created, as well as support sessions to clarification of doubts and activities for knowledge assessment, allow a high level of fit between the methodologies and objectives of the curricular unit. The adoption of the proposed methodologies will enable students to: acquire knowledge; discover working methods to be used; take professional behaviors, to detect the importance of activity in a laboratory context; apply knowledge in new situations, or raise an ongoing discussion in classes.
Reading:
1.Statistical Methods in Laboratory Medicine, P. W. Strike, Butterworth Heinemann. 2.Clinical Chemistry, W. J. Marshall, Mosby. 3.Clinical Chemistry –Theory, Analysis and Correlation, L. Kaplan, A. Pesce, The C.V. Mosby Company. 4.Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, J. B. Henry, W.B. Saunders Company. 5.Tietz: Text Book of Clinical Chemistry, Ed. C.A. Burtis, E.R. Ashwood, W.B. Saunders Company. 6.Essential Haematology - Hoffbrand & Petit. Blackwell. 7.Hematology in Clinical Practice - Hillman & Ault. McGraw – Hill. 8. Pestana, M. H. & Gageiro, J. N. (2008). Análise de dados para ciências socais: A complementaridade do SPSS (5ª Ed.). Lisboa: Edições Sílabo