CC 3405 Gerontology and Palliative Care

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to describe the hygiene, diet, exercise, and housing requirements of elderly patients in order to distinguish the lifestyles that promote welfare from those that negatively affect the health of the elderly. This will be achieved through testing, designs of social work programs, posters , participating in an open panel on a related subject and by establishing a diagnosis with intervention proposals on the family dynamics of a senior citizen.

CC 2061 Primary Care Medicine

At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to prevent and manage comprehensively the most frequent diseases at primary-care level. They will also demonstrate critical judgment to refer cases which are beyond their resolving capacity to another level of care. The aim of this is for the students to develop an attitude toward clinical medicine oriented to the optimization of health care resources. This will be achieved through readings, discussions and practice obtained in clinical rotations.

CC 3225 Urology

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to diagnose and treat timely and appropriately the most common urological clinical conditions in order to define the referral / counter-referral criteria for cases that need the support of a specialist in this area. This will be achieved through readings, research, discussion of problematized clinical cases and in-hospital patient consultations.