Clinical Skills

The graduates must diagnose and manage the care of patients in an effective and efficient way. In order to do so, he/she must be able to:

• take an appropriate history including social issues such as occupational health;
• perform a physical and mental status examination;
  
• apply basic diagnostic and technical procedures, to analyze and interpret findings, and to define the nature of a problem;
  
• perform appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies with the focus on life-saving procedures and applying principles of best evidence medicine;
  
• exercise clinical judgment to establish diagnoses and therapies;
  
• recognize immediate life-threatening conditions;
  
• manage common medical emergencies;
  
• manage patients in an effective, efficient and ethical manner including health promotion and disease prevention;
  
• evaluate health problems and advise patients taking intoaccount physical, psychological, social and cultural factors;
  
• understand the appropriate utilization of human resources, diagnostic interventions, therapeutic modalities and health care facilities.