UMH - EXTERNAL PRACTICES I

EXTERNAL PRACTICES I

Course

Code: 2092

Degree: Bachelor's in Occupational Therapy

Faculty of Medicine

Year: Year 3 of Bachelor's in Occupational Therapy

Semester: Spring

Type: Internships

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Lecture: 0

Laboratory: 6

Hours: 60

Directed: 60

Shared: 0

Autonomous: 0

Subject matter: External Practice

Module: External Practice and Final Degree Project

Department: Pathology and Surgery

Area: RADIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL MEDICINE

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

External practice for applying theories, foundations, methodologies, techniques, evaluations, and assessments in occupational therapy, working properly on a team and carrying out the functions and skills of this very profession in different environments, centers, hospitals, institutions, and with different social groups and populations.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
PEREZ CERDA, IRENE	■	■	■
PERAL GOMEZ, PAULA	■	■	■
FERNANDEZ PIRES, PAULA	■	■	■
HURTADO POMARES, MIRIAM		■	■
SÁNCHEZ PEREZ, ALICIA		■	■
ABAD NAVARRO, ESTER		■	■
SANCHEZ RECUENCO, PAULA		■	■
VALERA GRAN, DESIREE			■
NAVARRETE MUÑOZ, EVA MARIA			■

Professional interest

Formación clínica de los estudiantes a través de las estancias clínicas, alcanzando los estándares europeos, tal y como se hace referencia en "Occupational Therapy Educations in Europe: curriculum guidelines", publicado por el grupo de trabajo del Marco Curricular Europeo de la Red Europea de Terapia Ocupacional para la Educación Superior (ENOTHE).

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Know the economic, social, and cultural factors that affect health sciences professionals, as well as the economic implications of professional decisions.
Know current legislation that affects practicing the profession.
Recognize the differences between normal human body function and its alterations, and determine the impact from population, demographic, environmental, social, and cultural health determinants, and their effects.
Hypothesize, assess information, and promote viable solutions to cases and professional situations.
Apply the professional codes of ethics and conduct considering user rights and current legislation.
Ability to analyze, evaluate, and assess individual and group situations, identify problems, interpret data, and formulate solutions to individual and/or group problems.
Assess information critically and apply the scientific method to improve the profession.
Establish good interprofessional communication to address the community where you work and the individuals you deal with efficiently and with empathy.
Be capable of working on multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and leading multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to update, consolidate, and integrate new knowledge to improve the profession using continuous self-learning techniques and critical analysis.
Capability to use and promote innovation and creativity for solving professional problems.

Specific competencies

Recognize your limitations and the need to maintain and update professional skills, with particular emphasis on autonomous learning of new skills, techniques, and the motivation for quality.
Evaluate and adapt the surroundings to promote participation in meaningful occupations in various facets of daily life, personal autonomy, and quality of life.
Conduct occupational functioning assessments that are appropriate to the needs of individuals and populations.
Determine dysfunctions and occupational needs, define planning and establish occupational therapy intervention using the therapeutic potential of meaningful occupations through use of the activity, with the consent and participation of individuals and populations.
Conduct the occupational assessment, determine the planning, and establish occupational therapy intervention using the therapeutic potential of meaningful occupations through use of the activity, with the consent and participation of individuals and populations.
Know, select, and apply the appropriate theories, theoretical reference frameworks, and occupational therapy practice models and methods in order to choose or reestablish meaningful occupations according to the health needs of individuals and populations.
Recognize the influence of individual, religious, and cultural differences, as well as those of customs, on occupation and participation.
Acquire and develop practical abilities, skills, and experience in the socio-health and community contexts.
Develop professional practice with respect for other professionals, acquiring teamwork skills.
Establish assertive interpersonal communication with all partners that are relevant during the occupational therapy process.
Prepare and draft histories and other occupational therapy records comprehensibly for both specialists and non-specialists.
Transmit information orally and in writing for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Professional competencies

Understand the different theories about function, personal autonomy, functional adaptation to and from the environment, and occupational therapy intervention models, transferring them to everyday professional practice.
Promote health and prevent disability, gain or regain the occupational performance required at each stage of the life cycle to achieve independence and autonomy in the areas of occupational performance of people suffering situations of risk, organic deficit, activity limitation and participation and/or social exclusion.
Perform the appropriate treatment, respecting the different phases and basic principles, through therapeutic occupations and based on knowledge related like occupational science, in different areas of occupational performance, analyzing the components of performance and different existing environments and contexts.
Learn, design, and implement the various modalities and general interventional procedures in occupational therapy in its frames of reference, evaluating their effectiveness in a cooperative work environment.
Encourage user and family participation in the recovery process.
Know, understand, and apply the fundamentals about personal autonomy in activities of daily living with or without adaptations and/or assistive technologies in the life cycle.
Analyze the occupation in occupational therapy and its therapeutic use in the life cycle.
Implement meaningful activity, ergonomic study, new technologies, and existing technology in occupational therapy in the life cycle.
Understand, evaluate, analyze, develop, and participate in health education and promotion within the scope of occupational therapy to prevent occupational dysfunction in general and subsequent to medical, surgical, and psychiatric disorders and social maladjustment.
Collaborate with individuals and groups with the goal of active participation in the occupation, through promotion of health, prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.
Select, modify, and apply appropriate theories, practical intervention models and methods to meet the occupational and health needs of individuals and populations.
Use ethical and professional reasoning effectively throughout the occupational therapy process.
Use the therapeutic potential of the occupation through analysis and synthesis of the occupation and activity.
Adapt and apply the occupational therapy process in close collaboration with individuals and populations, acquiring capabilities to intervene in projects of promotion, prevention, and protection with a community and public health approach.
Appreciate and respect individual differences, cultural beliefs, customs, and their influence on occupation and participation.
Prepare, maintain, and review documentation about occupational therapy processes.
Perform professional practice ethically, respecting people, patients, and users, taking into account the codes of professional conduct for occupational therapists.
Demonstrate safety, self-knowledge, self-criticism, and knowledge about your own limitations as an occupational therapist.
Develop knowledge about the occupation and the practice of occupational therapy.
Identify and prioritize occupational therapy services.
Understand and apply principles of leadership and management in the provision of occupational therapy services, including cost-effectiveness, management of resources and equipment, and establishing occupational therapy protocols.
Engage in an ongoing process of evaluation and quality improvement in the delivery of occupational therapy services, engage people, patients, and users when appropriate, and communicate the results to stakeholders.
Be able to argue the scientific principles underlying intervention in occupational therapy, adapting it to the available scientific evidence.
Understand, evaluate, analyze, develop, and participate in health education and promotion within the scope of occupational therapy to prevent occupational dysfunction in general and subsequent to medical, surgical, and psychiatric disorders and social maladjustment.
Pre-professional practice, with a final grade received for the competencies, at health centers, hospitals, and other healthcare settings and that allows applying theories, fundamentals, methodologies, techniques, evaluations, and assessments of occupational therapy, working together and developing one's own skills and abilities in different environments.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01Accept own operating rules of the practices center and the subject.
02Share with professional experiences with the different members of the multidisciplinary team practices center.
03Implement an empathic and respectful attitude towards practice center users.
04Apply the conceptual models and intervention approaches of OT in the real work environment under the supervision of a tutor and an academic tutor.
05Execute intervention techniques appropriate to the type of collective found in the practice center (sensory stimulation, handling, basal stimulation, modeling, etc).
06Designing an individual intervention or an occupational therapy program (in case you can not make an individual treatment) following the occupational therapy process.
07Implement the intervention / program designed in the real work environment under the supervision of a tutor.
08Evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention / program conducted.
09Exhibit clear and synthesized the work done during practice stays in different seminars.
010Synthesizing the work done in the middle of practice in a memory / final report.

Teaching units

Association between objectives and units

Objective/Unit	U1	U2	U3	U4	U5	U6
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
010

Schedule

Week	Directed hours	Shared hours	Autonomous hours	Total hours
1	10	4	4	18
2	10	5	5	20
3	10	16	5	31
4	10	16	5	31
5	10	16	7	33
6	10	3	4	17

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Grading

The final grade will be the result of:

- Section 1: SEMINARS. The assistance and use of seminars and exhibitions. Score range from 0 to 10 and will account for 20% of the final grade. There will be a total of 5 STAY SEMINARS and in each of them the attendance and punctuality, the attitude and the work-exhibition will be scored. Scoring criteria for each seminar: Seminar 1 (Presentation): Attendance: 0.5 point. Seminar 2: Attendance 0.5 point; Attitude: 0.5 point Seminar 3: Attendance 0.5 point; Attitude: 1 point; Exhibition and work: 1 point. Seminar 4: Attendance 0.5 point; Attitude: 1 point; Exhibition and work: 1 point. Seminar 5: Attendance 0.5 point; Attitude: 1 point; Exhibition and work: 1 point. The score is adjusted to the content of the seminars and the work to be done by the student. Only for students who do internships outside the province of Alicante, will they have the option of presenting seminars 3 and 4 online. RESEARCH SEMINARS will also be held, whose attendance is MANDATORY and score 1 point.

- Section 2: ASSISTANCE TO THE CENTER OF PRACTICES AND THE ASSESSMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL GUARDIAN OF THE CENTER. Score range from 0 to 10 and will account for 40% of the final grade. Students are only exempt from attending the practice center on the days of the International Congress of Occupational Therapy Students (CIETO), never on other days for organizational reasons or being part of a committee. Failure to comply with the hours of stays, as well as going to claim the note to the professional tutor, entails the suspension of the subject.

- Section 3: FINAL REPORT. Delivery of the final report of practices to the tutor or academic tutor. The note will take into account the content, presentation and spelling (subtracting 0.25 points for each lack of spelling, up to a maximum of 2 points). Score range from 0 to 10 and will account for 40% of the final grade. For students who do not have the possibility of carrying out their work of the final report with an individual user, they will have the possibility of plating a group intervention that reflects the development of a program or several workshops. The final report will be delivered in seminar 5 by copying the document in the pendrive or email of the tutor or academic tutor.

FINAL NOTE: It is an essential requirement to pass the subject, obtain a minimum grade of 5 in sections 1 (seminars), 2 (center evaluation) and 3 (final report). Despite having passed the previous sections, students will suspend the subject, if there is a breach of "Article 9. Rights and duties of internship students" of Royal Decree 592/2014, of July 11, of the BOE, whereby external academic practices of university students are regulated. https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php? id = BOE-A-2014-8138. The documents related to the Rules and Article 9 can be consulted from the web section of the subject material. For example, some of these norms imply suspense of the subject if they expel the student from the center for inappropriate behavior, if it does not exceed or is considered unfit in the previous interviews conducted by the center or if it does not respect the rules of confidentiality. The evaluation formula will only be applied in cases in which these rules have been met, so that non-compliance is cause for suspense of the subject.

Assessment test characteristics

Important: Choice of practice Centers
-If the student is unable to attend the auction of centres, he/she must authorize a partner to give the waiver or to choose a center for him or her (delegation of the election). If the pupil does not show up and there is no partner or partner authorized to represent him, he will suspend the subject. The necessary documents are in the subject material.
-Criterion followed to allocate the post in the auction: product between number of credits approved (not counting transversal competences and being a maximum of 180 in 4 º and 120 in 3 º) and the average note of the academic record.
-Once you have chosen the centre at the auction, the students cannot refuse it and choose a different centre. Nor can he choose a center and then resign to open a new convention.

-Students must make each shift of stays in a different center, ie it is not allowed to repeat practice center unless there is no other center available in the list.

Correction criteria

You can only miss a seminar with a duly justified reason. This seminar will be marked with a 0. The absence of more than one seminar, even if it is justified, will be considered a failure of the subject. Failure to a single seminar without justification will be considered a failure of the subject.

PROCEDURE IN CASE OF SUSPENSION:

If the student suspends the seminars, they will recover in the corresponding call making a final presentation of the work during 20 minutes. If the student has suspended the final report (the report), the note of the practical part and seminars will be kept until December and the report will have to be repeated. If the student has suspended the practical part (stay in centers) will have to repeat the stays in another center. If it is presented for the September session, the student will have to look for a center where there are no students already attending their stays. If you apply for the December session, you will have to look for an internship center that is not necessarily in the list of those that are offered in the auction. The seminars and the memory will be suspended and will be recovered in the corresponding call, delivering the memory and making the final presentation of the work. The student will be responsible for searching the center and contacting their academic tutor to authorize the completion of the internship, before making the agreement. As in the rest of the subjects, students who do not pass the ordinary or September exam will have to re-register for the subject, even for the December session. The seminars count 20% of the final grade.

HONORARY REGISTRATION: The mention of "honorary registration" may be granted to students who have obtained a qualification equal to or greater than 9.00. Your number may not exceed 5% of the students enrolled in that subject.

Additional requirements

PROCEDURE in the EVENT of RESIGNATION:

Students who waive choose Center, on the day of the auction, you must sign the waiver that demonstrates and deliver them on the day of the auction in compliance with the corresponding turns. The delivery of the document may make the student or a company or authorized partner. Later, they have to look for a center to perform the practices within the period corresponding to the practices that go to study, as it appears on the Board of the academic year. The students have to do is look for active centres and will be responsible for getting in touch with your tutor or academic tutor (assigned on the day of the auction) to give the go-ahead before formalizing the annex (the agreements and annexes are managed by the students with the Occupational Observatory). The center should be one that does not appear in the list of centres offered from the subject. It would ultimately be eligible for centres that had been free after the end of the center auction. The students who renounce the offered centers and look for one, will have to conform to the dates of realization of practices established for the subject in particular (announced in Dameo from the beginning of the academic year).

ONLY internships may be made outside the period marked in two cases: 1) Students whose centers have had an impact and have to be relocated in other centers, 2) students whose practices have not been adequately managed by the university.

CHECKLIST:

The professional tutor will have a Checklist regarding the standards that students must meet during their internship period. In the case of non-compliance with any of these standards, it will mean the suspension of the subject.

SELF-ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPETENCES ACQUIRED DURING THE INTERNSHIP:

As an intermediate assessment, the students are asked to complete a self-assessment that will be mandatory to deliver in seminar 4, but which does not count toward the final grade for the subject.

Research: EXTERNAL PRACTICES I