Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Critical Professional
Full course description
The Critical Professional track engages the student as a future professional from three domains; the health networks domain, the science domain and the domain of ethics and law. Within each domain a number of subdomains can be distinguished:
- Health networks deal with interprofessional collaboration, organization of health care and health literacy/e-health.
- The science domain covers disciplines like epidemiology, statistics, evidence based medicine, writing essays and scientific papers, and presentation skills.
- Finally the domains ethics and law, which deals with values, norms and rules governing medicine, including the other 2 domains.
- In the track Critical Professional, these domains will be integrated in the periods, its teaching and learning activities
Course objectives
Per period:Acute care I:
- Health networks - acute care and its organization
- Science - Evidence-based medicine skills, basic epidemiology and statistics (incidence-prevalence), gen-AI, interpreting quality of literature, digital literacy
- Ethics and Law - Ethics and legal aspects of professionalism
Short term care I:
- Health networks - appropriate care
- Science - Diagnostic testing
- Ethics and Law - communication, information and shared decision-making
Chronic care I:
- Health networks & Ethics and law- patient perspective and chronic care networks
- Science - Clinimetrics and qualitative interviewing
Care for Health:
- Health Networks - Nature and nurture
- Science - Prognosis, cohort studies, regression analysis
- Ethics and law - Framing care discussions
Recommended reading
MED1104
Year
1 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2025
ECTS credits:
0.0Instruction language:
EnglishCoordinators:
- R.A. de Bie
- M.J.M. Hilderink
Teaching methods:
Assignment(s), Work in subgroups, Paper(s), PBL, Presentations, Skills, Training(s)Assessment methods:
Portfolio