Objectives of general skills

• Demonstrate interpersonal skills developed within a medical context
• Adapt lexical and syntactic choices in communication register (everyday language, medical language or scientific terminology)
• Summarise, explain, and argue
• Listen and empathise
• Develop reasoning skills
• Understand and apply the basic principles of reasoning (obtaining data, analysis, synthesis, comparison, the rule of three, syllogism, analogy, Boolean logic, etc)
• Understand and apply Bayesian inference
• Develop critical thinking, test and monitor conclusions understanding the area of validity, and explore alternative hypotheses
• Integrate reasoning in clinical approaches
• Manage doubt and uncertainty
• Manage resources
• Prioritise
• Promote health
• Understand a global approach to health incorporating prevention and screening
• Manage their studies
• Have developed an interest for medicine
• Be a responsible practitioner
• Integrate a human dimension in their approach to the patient
• Respect the diversity of gender, culture and opinion
• Integrate an ethical dimension in their reasoning
• Be loyal to the facts, to the team, to intellectual property, confidentiality, etc

UE's Learning outcomes

To sensibilize the students to the patient-doctor relationship’s difficulties. From an usual encounter, the course shows that medicine is not only an operation on a body, but has other meanings for the patient. 
The mechanisms of human error in the practice of medicine will be shown. Religious and philosophical tradition will be briefly explained, especially about suffering, life, death and the hereafter, in order to help the students to understand the diversity of the men and women they will help.

UE Content

The course will adopt various lights upon the socal fact of medicine: sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, ethics and the history of religions.

Prior experience

to be able to express oneself in a comprehensible written text

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• N/A

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination