Teaching Plan Information

Presentation

The curricula of the Degrees in Medicine and Human Biology consider as one of their main objectives a comprehensive training in biomedical knowledge, so that the different subjects studied during the degree are not considered as separate subjects without continuity. For this reason, a group of subjects was included under the name of Integrated Medicine / Biomedicine I, II and III that will be taught in the first three courses of the corresponding Degrees.

Integrated Medicine / Biomedicine is, therefore, the name of subjects intended to analyze prototypical situations of medicine and human biology in a transversal way, both horizontally and vertically. This means that students will have to achieve educational goals in the subjects corresponding to their course, but also in higher or lower courses.

Integrated Medicine / Biomedicine I, II and III also aim to provide a scenario for the development of transversal skills, some of which will be dealt with in other subjects implicitly, but which require specific activities such as those to be carried out in these subjects (collaborative work, information processing and sharing, scientific writing, scientific presentation, scientific discussion).

Associated skills

- Research skills:

• Design a research project

• Plan a strategy for data collection

• Analyse and interpret data to draw conclusions

• Communicate of the results in a scientifc context

- Transversal skills:

• Teamwork and interprofessional work

• Critical search of information

• Oral and written communication

• Creativity

Learning outcomes

• Identify a good research question

• Formulate a well-founded hypothesis

• Design and plan a research project

• Collect the necessary data to be able to give an answer to the question posed

• Interpret the data obtained and draw conclusions.

• Writting the results of the research project in a paper format

• Comunicate the results of the research in an oral presentation in a Symposium

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG3. Good Health and Well-being

SDG5. Gender Equality

SDG10. Reduce Inequalities

Prerequisites

It is recommended to have completed the subjects: Integrated Biomedicine I and II for Human Biology students and Integrated Medicine I and II for Medicine students.

Contents

- Design of a research project in the field of biomedicine, integrating concepts of microbiology, immunology and pharmacology.
- Experimental design
- Data collection strategies
- Methods of data analysis and representation
- Structure and writing style of a scientific article
- Structure of a scientific oral communication

Teaching Methods

This subject will be developed following the Project-based learning methodology (PjBL) with interprofessional groups of medicine and human biology students. The groups will be 8-10 people and will work under the direction of a tutor during the 10 weeks of the third trimester.

The PjBL is a learning method that simulates the inquiry process, thus beginning with the formulation of a complex question or a real challenge posed by the students themselves and leading them to throw forward a research project. Although students learn specific content from the research they carry out, the main purpose of this methodology is to acquire research skills (ask good research questions, generate well-founded hypotheses, identify resources and data necessary to answer the question, plan the experiment, interpret the data obtained, draw conclusions and evaluate the process carried out).

Project-based courses are characterized by the following elements:

• They are guided by a question that will be answered, and not for a specific theme that will be developed.

• The course begins by presenting a very general topic, which acts as a stimulus to define the question or challenge that will determine the development of the course.

• A variety of learning resources are used (articles, reviews, professional websites, meetings with experts, etc.) and critical thinking skills are developed. One of the most emphasized skills is the critical reading of information.

• In the process of inquiry, the following steps must be taken: ask yourself a good research question, research, generate new knowledge, discuss and reflect.

• The tutor guides the process, encourages reflection, and facilitates the development of research skills.

Therefore, the course will begin with the approach of a current problematic situation in the field of biomedicine and from there each group will have to ask a research question to be investigated during the trimester. At the end of the trimester, a Symposium will be held in which each group will present the project carried out and the results and conclusions they have drawn. In this Symposium, external evaluators will be invited. These are experts in the topics that have been worked on.

Evaluation

The evaluation of the subject will be continuous and formative, this means that during the course the students will have to make several deliveries, all in English, that will allow doing a good follow-up of the work that is being carried out and to correct those aspects that can be improved during the process. Given the special characteristics of this subject, the assessment is continuous and not dependent on a specific test. For this reason, it is not possible to take a re-examination and in the event of not passing the subject, this will have to be taken again from the beginning on a subsequent edition. 

All the activities to be evaluated will be in English. The activities that will be evaluated will be the following:

Preliminary Reports (20%)

During the course, 2 preliminary reports (Report 1 and Report 2) must be submitted, the first (Report 1) will have a 5% on the final mark, and a second (Report 2) 15%.

Final Report (25%): article or project proposal

Upon completion of the research project, students will be required to write a Final Report, following the guidelines of an original scientific journal in the case of a scientific article, or the guidelines to produce a project proposal. 

The Final Reports will be evaluated by three teachers/tutors of the subject, different from the tutor for the group.

Presentations at the Symposium  (25%)

At the end of the project, a scientific Symposium will be held, where each group will present the results of their project for a maximum of 15 minutes. Each group will discuss the topic with 3 external evaluators, who will ask questions to all group members at the end of the presentation.. 

During the Symposium, there will be a contest for the best presentation. All the participants of the Symposium will be able to participate in the competition voting: students, tutors, and evaluation committee. Neither the student nor the group tutor will be able to vote for their own group. The winning group will have a bonus on the final grade of 0.25.

Individual participation and socio-emotional skills (30%)

Tutors and students themselves will evaluate the individual participation of each student. 

At the end of the course, each student will have to fill out a form evaluating the group mates and deliver this form through Aula Global. 50% of the participation mark will correspond to the evaluation of the tutor and 50% to the evaluation of your peers in the group.

To pass the subject it will be necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 5/10 in the participation section.

Attendance at tutored sessions is mandatory (2 unexcused absences imply not passing the subject).

Bibliography and information resources

Bibliography resources will depend on the subject proposed in each edition.

Información del Plan Docente

Presentación

The curricula of the Degrees in Medicine and Human Biology consider as one of their main objectives a comprehensive training in biomedical knowledge, so that the different subjects studied during the degree are not considered as separate subjects without continuity. For this reason, a group of subjects was included under the name of Integrated Medicine / Biomedicine I, II and III that will be taught in the first three courses of the corresponding Degrees.

Integrated Medicine / Biomedicine is, therefore, the name of subjects intended to analyze prototypical situations of medicine and human biology in a transversal way, both horizontally and vertically. This means that students will have to achieve educational goals in the subjects corresponding to their course, but also in higher or lower courses.

Integrated Medicine / Biomedicine I, II and III also aim to provide a scenario for the development of transversal skills, some of which will be dealt with in other subjects implicitly, but which require specific activities such as those to be carried out in these subjects (collaborative work, information processing and sharing, scientific writing, scientific presentation, scientific discussion).

Competencias asociadas

- Research skills:

• Design a research project

• Plan a strategy for data collection

• Analyse and interpret data to draw conclusions

• Communicate of the results in a scientifc context

- Transversal skills:

• Teamwork and interprofessional work

• Critical search of information

• Oral and written communication

• Creativity

Resultados del aprendizaje

• Identify a good research question

• Formulate a well-founded hypothesis

• Design and plan a research project

• Collect the necessary data to be able to give an answer to the question posed

• Interpret the data obtained and draw conclusions.

• Writting the results of the research project in a paper format

• Comunicate the results of the research in an oral presentation in a Symposium

Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible

SDG3. Good Health and Well-being

SDG5. Gender Equality

SDG10. Reduce Inequalities

Prerrequisitos

It is recommended to have completed the subjects: Integrated Biomedicine I and II for Human Biology students and Integrated Medicine I and II for Medicine students.

Contenidos

- Design of a research project in the field of biomedicine, integrating concepts of microbiology, immunology and pharmacology.
- Experimental design
- Data collection strategies
- Methods of data analysis and representation
- Structure and writing style of a scientific article
- Structure of a scientific oral communication

Metodología docente

This subject will be developed following the Project-based learning methodology (PjBL) with interprofessional groups of medicine and human biology students. The groups will be 8-10 people and will work under the direction of a tutor during the 10 weeks of the third trimester.

The PjBL is a learning method that simulates the inquiry process, thus beginning with the formulation of a complex question or a real challenge posed by the students themselves and leading them to throw forward a research project. Although students learn specific content from the research they carry out, the main purpose of this methodology is to acquire research skills (ask good research questions, generate well-founded hypotheses, identify resources and data necessary to answer the question, plan the experiment, interpret the data obtained, draw conclusions and evaluate the process carried out).

Project-based courses are characterized by the following elements:

• They are guided by a question that will be answered, and not for a specific theme that will be developed.

• The course begins by presenting a very general topic, which acts as a stimulus to define the question or challenge that will determine the development of the course.

• A variety of learning resources are used (articles, reviews, professional websites, meetings with experts, etc.) and critical thinking skills are developed. One of the most emphasized skills is the critical reading of information.

• In the process of inquiry, the following steps must be taken: ask yourself a good research question, research, generate new knowledge, discuss and reflect.

• The tutor guides the process, encourages reflection, and facilitates the development of research skills.

Therefore, the course will begin with the approach of a current problematic situation in the field of biomedicine and from there each group will have to ask a research question to be investigated during the trimester. At the end of the trimester, a Symposium will be held in which each group will present the project carried out and the results and conclusions they have drawn. In this Symposium, external evaluators will be invited. These are experts in the topics that have been worked on.

Evaluación

The evaluation of the subject will be continuous and formative, this means that during the course the students will have to make several deliveries, all in English, that will allow doing a good follow-up of the work that is being carried out and to correct those aspects that can be improved during the process. Given the special characteristics of this subject, the assessment is continuous and not dependent on a specific test. For this reason, it is not possible to take a re-examination and in the event of not passing the subject, this will have to be taken again from the beginning on a subsequent edition. 

All the activities to be evaluated will be in English. The activities that will be evaluated will be the following:

Preliminary Reports (20%)

During the course, 2 preliminary reports (Report 1 and Report 2) must be submitted, the first (Report 1) will have a 5% on the final mark, and a second (Report 2) 15%.

Final Report (25%): article or project proposal

Upon completion of the research project, students will be required to write a Final Report, following the guidelines of an original scientific journal in the case of a scientific article, or the guidelines to produce a project proposal. 

The Final Reports will be evaluated by three teachers/tutors of the subject, different from the tutor for the group.

Presentations at the Symposium  (25%)

At the end of the project, a scientific Symposium will be held, where each group will present the results of their project for a maximum of 15 minutes. Each group will discuss the topic with 3 external evaluators, who will ask questions to all group members at the end of the presentation.. 

During the Symposium, there will be a contest for the best presentation. All the participants of the Symposium will be able to participate in the competition voting: students, tutors, and evaluation committee. Neither the student nor the group tutor will be able to vote for their own group. The winning group will have a bonus on the final grade of 0.25.

Individual participation and socio-emotional skills (30%)

Tutors and students themselves will evaluate the individual participation of each student. 

At the end of the course, each student will have to fill out a form evaluating the group mates and deliver this form through Aula Global. 50% of the participation mark will correspond to the evaluation of the tutor and 50% to the evaluation of your peers in the group.

To pass the subject it will be necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 5/10 in the participation section.

Attendance at tutored sessions is mandatory (2 unexcused absences imply not passing the subject).

Bibliografía y recursos de información

Bibliography resources will depend on the subject proposed in each edition.