Critical Professional Year 2

Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Critical Professional Year 2

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

Short term Care II

  • Health Networks - sustainable employability and care network
  • Science - critical appraisal of topic (CAT) 'therapy' assignment; assignment writing an introduction
  • Ethics and law - assignment health law and health ethics (HLHE)

Acute Care II

  • Health Networks - health care innovation and capacity management
  • Science - CAT 'diagnosis', assignment writing method section
  • Ethics and law - assignment health law and health ethics (HLHE)

Prevention

  • Science - assignment writing result section, qualitative research

Chronic Care II

  • Science - introduction to systematic review, assignment writing discussion and conclusion section, assessing bias
  • Ethics and law - moral deliberations
MED2104
Year
1 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2025
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ECTS credits: 
0.0
Instruction language: 
English
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Teaching methods: 
Assignment(s), Work in subgroups, Paper(s), Presentations, Research, Skills, Training(s)
Assessment methods: 
Portfolio