Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaMidwifery Practicum
Main language of instruction: Catalan
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Lda. Margarita CATALÀ - mcatala@uic.es
Office hours
Dra. Margarita Català: mcatala@uic.es
The course on Maternity and Children Clinical Practice consists of four weeks of clinical rotation in the specialty of Paediatrics, including their specific areas (e.g., Neonatology and Pediatric specialties). During this period, you will be performing clinical tasks, always under the supervision of a professional. The goal of this hands-on work is to allow you to develop the skillset required to practice medicine in the relevant areas, from a general practitioner perspective.
Be studying the course of Pediatrics.
Integrate the knowledge and skills acquired regarding the healthcare of the baby, and child up to 18 years.
Gain clinical experience in a real clinical setting.
Engage with babies, infants, children, and adolescents with health problems or needs preventive measures, and with their family and social environments.
GOALS AND BASIC SKILLS TO BE ACHIEVED DURING CLINICAL PRACTICE
GENERAL SKILLS
- Be able to develop a complete anamnesis of the patient, taking into account their characteristics.
- Be able to recognise the specific characteristics of a disease, by exploring anomalies.
- Be able to incorporate both the data of the anamnesis and the results of the clinical exploration into concise documentation that is understandable to third parties
- Guide a diagnosis
- Propose a plan of action
- Record the findings
SPECIFIC TO PEDIATRICS
- Know how to, and perform, a proper anamnesis of the child, parents or other family members.
- Communicate with infants, school children and adolescents and their families
- Write a concise, clear and comprehensive clinical history, focused on the Pediatric pathology.
- Know how to, and perform, a systematic physical examination of the baby as well as infants, school children and adolescents.
- Know how to assess the severity of a pediatric patient
- Know the procedure to follow on the most common pediatric investigations, as well as its specifications and difficulties
- Know how to provide clinical guidance to pediatric patients
- Know how to lead a differential diagnosis in a pediatric patient
- Know how to lead a therapeutic plan in a pediatric patient
- Get acquainted with the common tasks of a Neonatal Unit.
- Participate in the follow-up of normal baby during the first 48 hours of life (physiological changes, breastfeeding, care of the navel, instructions to discharge.
Pediatrics.
Neonatology (healthy baby, maternity floor, Intermediate neonatal care unit, neonatal ICU), paediatric inpatient, outpatient, emergency (triage, healthy child/sick child), delivery rooms, primary pediatric care.
The textbooks on the subject of Pediatrics.