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Clinical Placement in Paediatrics

Code: 106712
Credits: 4
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Medicine OB 6

Contact lecturer

Name :
Antonio Moreno Galdó
Email :
antoniojose.moreno@uab.cat

Teaching staff

María Jesús Mendez Hernandez
Judith Sanchez Manubens
Roger Esmel Vilomara
Pere Soler Palacin

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

It is advisable that students do not have any subject pending approval from previous courses.


It is convenient to have achieved sufficient knowledge in:

- Biostatistics

- Bioethics and communication

- Epidemiology

- Physiopathology and clinical semiology

- Surgical pathology

- Medical pathology

- Clinical Pharmacology

- Pediatrics

- Gynecology-Obstetrics

- Mental health


Knowledge of a third language, preferably English.



The student body will acquire the commitment to preserve the confidentiality and professional secrecy of the data to which they may have access due to the learning in the assistance services. You also agree to maintain an attitude of professional ethics in all your actions.

Objectives

The subject corresponds to the last year of the Degree in Medicine (6th year), once the students already know the scientific foundations of Pediatrics.

The general objective is for students to consolidate previous knowledge and achieve clinical, communication and research and handling skills for scientific information related to Pediatrics:

We classify the objectives in general and specific.

Generals

- Make a diagnosis by knowing how to take a history and establish a differential diagnosis, under the supervision of the teaching staff.

- Make a diagnosis and establish the treatment of a specific pathology, under the supervision of the teaching staff.

- Establish good interpersonal communication that enables you to address patients, relatives, companions, medical team and other healthcare professionals with efficiency and empathy.

Specifics

- Know the most frequent diseases of the child and adolescents.

- Know the peculiarities of each pediatric age range.

- Acquire the necessary skills for communication with pediatric patients and their families.

- Acquire the necessary knowledge to discern the degree of severity of patients and be able to prioritize those who require immediate attention.

- Acquire knowledge based on evidence-based medicine to act in the face of different pediatric pathologies.

- Establish a diagnostic algorithm based on the most frequent symptoms and be able to work out a differential diagnosis of problems.

- Be able to manage non-critical acute situations.

- Be able to handle critical situations that require urgent intervention.

- Know the indications and utilitiy of the different complementary tests.

- Know the necessary materials and the procedures most frequently used in Pediatrics.

Learning outcomes

  1. Apply the basic elements of bioethics (patients' rights, doctors' obligations).
  2. Involve patients in decisions on the health-illness process.
  3. Apply the theoretical knowledge of the pathology acquired during the bachelor's degree to clinical practice.
  4. Identify the presentation forms of the different pathological processes.
  5. Take an active part in care tasks: preparing patient records, requesting complementary studies (laboratory, imaging techniques) when needed and helping to focus the patient record.
  6. Collaborate on simple clinical and surgical manoeuvres after supervised practice on simulators.
  7. Prepare a complete patient record systematically.
  8. Perform an anamnesis and a complete physical examination by systems on adults and children.
  9. Indicate and use the specific diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for the pediatric age group (phototherapy, nebulisers and aerosol-holding chambers, genetic and metabolic studies).
  10. Identify the basic rules of pharmacotherapy in adults and children.
  11. Identify the basic elements of the face-to-face doctor–patient interview in a context of high accessibility and longitudinal care.
  12. Describe the communication process and its effect on the professional caregiver–patient relationship.
  13. Identify basic emotions in primary healthcare patients through the interaction between the different non-verbal components.
  14. Analyse the limitations to the interpretation of behaviour from non-verbal comunication.
  15. Participate in discussions to solve the clinical problems being faced.
  16. Communicate appropriately with patients and their family-members.
  17. Correctly describe the criteria for hospitalisation.
  18. Draft medical instructions, reports on consultations and treatment, official reports and certificates.
  19. Know the basic elements of the communication of clinical research results.
  20. Access the healthcare protocols for the different components of the pathology.
  21. Consult patient records appropriately and keep them in order.
  22. Analyse patient records systematically.
  23. Maintain and sharpen one's professional competence, in particular by independently learning new material and techniques and by focusing on quality.
  24. Be able to work in an international context.
  25. Communicate clearly, orally and in writing, with other professionals and the media.
  26. Use information and communication technologies in professional practice.

Contents

Distributive blocks


Clinical care practices in humans (PCAh): rotation through the different care devices of the Pediatric Services of the Teaching Units.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Written work or presentation of a clinical case 15 0.6 1, 4, 5, 10, 16, 18, 22, 26
Personal or team study 26 1.04 3, 5, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18
Clinical care practices (CCP) 54 2.16 1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23

Methodology

  • UD-Germans Trias i Pujol: Maria Méndez Hernández (mjmendez.germanstrias@gencat.cat)
  • UD-Vall Hebron: Pere Soler Palacin (pere.soler@vallhebron.cat)
  • UD-Sant Pau: Roger Esmel i Vilomara (resmel@santpau.cat)
  • UD-Parc Taulí: Judit Sánchez Manubens (judith.sanchez@uab.cat)


Subject credits: 4 ECTS = 100 hours


SUPERVISED (54 hours)

- Care clinical practices (PCA) 54h (5.4h x 5d x 2 weeks)


INDEPENDENT (41 hours)

- Individual or team study: 26 hours

- Carrying out work or presenting a clinical case (depending on the teaching unit): 15


EVALUATION (5 hours) (5%)


Exceptionally and according to the criteria of the responsible teaching staff, the available resources and the health situation of each moment in the different Teaching Units, part of the content corresponding to theoretical lessons, practicals and seminars may be taught face-to-face or virtually.

According to the criteria of the responsible teaching staff and according to the resources available in each Teaching Unit, part of the content corresponding to the practical laboratory lessons may be taught and evaluated in the simulation classrooms with the corresponding methodology.


Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Continuos evaluation of practices and presentation of a clinical case or a writing work 60% 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Structured clinical objective evaluation 40% 2 0.08 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26

Rotation 60%:

1) Continuous evaluation: 40%


Evaluation Score*
Assistance and punctuality 1 2 3 4 5
Actitude 1 2 3 4
Participation and integration 1 2 3

Initiative 1 2


Communication 1 2



The student will be considered suitable if he reaches a total score equal to or higher than 11/16


Definition of the different dimensions:

Attendance and punctuality: it will be assessed that the students have attended regularly every day of the rotation and that in case of absence they have given notice.

Attitude: it will be valued that the student is willing to learn, that he knows and reviews the clinical cases, that he asks questions and shows a positive attitude towards learning.

Participation and integration: The responsibility of the students in the tasks that the tutor requests, the ability to work in a team and the opinions that they provide in a session or in other assistance activities will be assessed.

Initiative: It will be assessed if the student is curious to learn, read the protocols of the service, the diagnostic and treatment guides.

Communication: It will be assessed if the student is able to synthesize and communicate a clinical case to teammates in a clinical session of the service


2) Presentation of a clinical case or/and performance of a mini ACOE: 20%

Clinical case presentation will be evaluated during the rotation, in the form of written work and/or oral presentation.



The evaluation represents 5% of the 4 ECTS (100 hours), i.e. 5 hours. It is a practical evaluation.

Students who do not take the evaluation tests detailed above will be considered as Not evaluated exhausting their rights to enroll in the subject. The special situations will be evaluated individually in a committee that includes the people responsible for this subject.

This subject does not provide the single assessment system.


The commission of any irregularity in an assessment act (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless this use is expressly authorized in the teaching guide), which may lead to a significant variation in the grade, means that this act will be graded with a 0.

In the event that the teaching guide provides that in order to pass the subject it is an essential requirement to have obtained a minimum grade in this assessment act or that several irregularities occur in the assessment acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject is 0. Apart from this, a disciplinary process may be initiated against the student who incurs any of these irregularities.

Bibliography

  • Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics 10th ed. 2026. Elsevier.
  • Illustrated Textbook of Pediatrics. Tom Lissauer, Will Carroll. 7th ed. 2026 Elsevier



Internet


Software

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Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE