University of Extremadura

full time

FACULTAD DE MEDICINA The Faculty of Medicine has trained more than 5000 doctors so far. The PDI faculty includes all the areas of knowledge of the Curriculum. There is 187 PDI professors, with a highly qualified staff, as they are two of their thirds doctors and have an experience of more than 25 years of teaching. More than half of the staff develops clinical activity. One third of it belongs to university teaching bodies and has a permanent link with the University of Extremadura. To ensure quality in teaching, the faculty has the supervision of the Quality and External Practice Commissions.

FACULTAD DE MEDICINA The staff of PDI has 119 sexenios of research accumulated. The majority of this faculty is integrated into research groups cataloged from the University of Extremadura and the Junta de Extremadura, with funded research projects obtained in competitive calls at regional, national and European level, with a total of 116 projects (funds FEDER, FIS, Junta de Extremadura, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal, private funds and the pharmaceutical industry).

Medical training; Basic areas; Medicine and specialities

yes

full time

FACULTAD DE ENFERMERÍA Y TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL A nursing graduate from the School of Nursing and Occupational Therapy a is capable of providing technical and professional health care that is appropriate for people’s health needs, based on scientific evidence and the levels of quality and security that are established by laws and ethics. This graduate nurse plans, designs, and provides nursing care orientated to results in health, while assessing its impact, through clinical practice guidelines and assistance. The nurse knows and applies the theoretical and methodological foundations and principles of nursing. Taking into account their physical, psychological and social aspects the nurse treats patients without prejudice, and as autonomous and independent individuals, respecting their opinions, beliefs and values, and guaranteeing their right to intimacy through professional confidentiality. He/she encourages and respects the right to participation, information, autonomy and the informed consent to making decisions for others. He/she strengthens healthy life styles, self-care, protection and education for health and well-being of individuals, families or groups in care, while ensuring their safety. He/she knows the legal regulations in place, ethical principles and their implications, and also about health financing, in the current environment. He/she is able to establish assessment mechanisms, considering scientific-technical and quality aspects and works with a team of professionals, as a basic unit, which contains professionals of a singular, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary character. He/she knows the health information systems and carries out nursing care based on integral and integrated health care. The graduate nurse knows how to adopt methods of comfort and attention to symptoms, directed to the patient and family, in the application of palliative care that contributes to easing the suffering of advanced or terminal patients. A graduate in Occupational Therapy from the School of Nursing and Occupational Therapy is able to recognise the essential elements of the profession, including the main ethics, legal responsibilities and professional duties. He/she knows the national and international health organisations and collaborates in the promotion of health and well-being, through active participation in significant employment. The graduate is trained to understand the conceptual foundations of the occupational nature of the human being, the performance of their occupations and their participation and contextual factors throughout the life-cycle; as determiners of occupational dysfunction, recognising the influence of different individuals, religions and cultures. He/she acquires the necessary competences in order to understand the foundations of action, theories, frames of reference, models and methods of the profession, and the indications and efficiency of Occupational Therapy interventions, based on scientific evidence. He/she also updates his/her knowledge and works in favour of quality, to carry out assessments of occupational functioning and intervention: by making environmental adjustments to promote participation; using significant occupational-therapy methods, through activities, and in different aspects of daily life, personal autonomy and quality of life; and by following and assessing the occupational process. All of this is done with respect, as a member of this multidisciplinary team. In training, the occupational therapist acquires the competences to know how to assess critically and to use efficiently different sources of information, to interpret and communicate (in an oral and written manner) scientific, health, social-health and social information, both to specialised and non-specialised individuals, while maintaining data confidentiality. Elaborating records and reports of his/her therapeutic actions, he/she is able to research and share new knowledge that will enrich this discipline. CENTRO PLASENCIACENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE MÉRIDAThe mission of the University Centre of Merida (CUM) aims to serve the society and offer teaching, research and services that meet the expectations and the development of all members of our university community. The CUM is a dynamic centre in which we give training in the most market demanded degrees and oriented to the professional world. It has as principal objective one of the great challenges of the current society: professionals’ training with specific and traversal competences that respond to the needs of the global world and promote entrepreneurship and an integrative, ethical, and social attitudeFACUTLAD DE MEDICINAThe Faculty of Medicine has trained more than 5000 doctors so far. The PDI faculty includes all the areas of knowledge of the Curriculum. There is 187 PDI professors, with a highly qualified staff, as they are two of their thirds doctors and have an experience of more than 25 years of teaching. More than half of the staff develops clinical activity. One third of it belongs to university teaching bodies and has a permanent link with the University of Extremadura. To ensure quality in teaching, the faculty has the supervision of the Quality and External Practice Commissions.

FACULTAD DE ENFERMERÍA Y TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL Basic Research – Traslational Research - Reasearch in Health Sciences – Research in Health and Social Sciences.CENTRO PLASENCIACENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE MÉRIDATo work on the social, economic and technological development of our society, the personal development of our students and to facilitate their vocational integration into the labour market, the University Centre of Merida (CUM) has, as principal objective, the transfer of knowledge through applied research promoting the social, intellectual and technical development of our environment. As a multidisciplinary center, the CUM develops its research work in different relevant research groups in each of our areas: design, technology, engineering and health sciences. More information: https://www.unex.es/conoce-la-uex/centros/cum/i-d-iFACUTLAD DE MEDICINAThe staff of PDI has 119 sexenios of research accumulated. The majority of this faculty is integrated into research groups cataloged from the University of Extremadura and the Junta de Extremadura, with funded research projects obtained in competitive calls at regional, national and European level, with a total of 116 projects (funds FEDER, FIS, Junta de Extremadura, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal, private funds and the pharmaceutical industry).

Nursing; Occupational Therapy; Health and Social Sciencesa; Permanent commitment to continuous improvement as a standard of conduct; Commitment to continuous learning (Lifelong Learning); Transfer of knowledge through applied research promoting the social, intellectual and technical development of our environment; Medical training; Basic areas; Medicine and specialities

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full time

full time