Clinical Placements in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy II

The Curricular Unit in question has as its mission to serve as preparation for professional performance in the field of Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy, students will be supervised by a professional in a real clinical environment. They will carry out, under observation of the tutor, all the procedures in the different departments where the Internship takes place. In this sense, the contents explained above reflect all areas and techniques that take place in a Department of Medical Image and Radiotherapy.

The UC will take place in Departments with the modalities of Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy of hospitals and private clinics in the region of Coimbra, and others, with which the ESTeSC have collaboration protocols, ensuring that students have contact with all the modalities and different technologies . Some of the modalities can be carried out as part of international mobility programmes.

The UC develops in an effective clinical environment and aims to prepare future graduates for one of the professional aspects that arise from the study cycle they attend. In this sense, tutored education allows students to materialize all the technical-scientific contribution that previous UCs ​​give them. It is intended that students develop professionalizing habits in a clinical environment through contact with available techniques and technologies, integrate the organization and functioning of the various departments, developing teamwork skills with other professionals.

Students must develop the ability to interpret, analyze and discuss pathological situations and the most suitable procedure, developing an entrepreneurial and critical spirit that favors the construction of professional knowledge marked by scientific and technical autonomy, sense of responsibility and problem-solving ability.

The student must acquire practical knowledge of all modalities in the field of Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy. It should assimilate knowledge associated with Nuclear Medicine, Radiology and Radiotherapy, including the organization and operation of a service and all aspects of clinical practice. Knowledge of diagnostic procedures, explanation of legal and clinical basis, both screening, disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

The student must acquire skills to:

• Optimize procedures ensuring diagnosis or treatment, complying with Good Practices without neglecting Radiological Protection

• Ground and establish critical reasoning, developing work habits in the hospital environment in contact with the modalities, available technologies and other health professionals

• Interpret, analyze and discuss scientific studies, with acuity and critical spirit, building an autonomous technical-professional knowledge with a sense of responsibility and problem-solving capacity

• Prepare and execute all the necessary techniques to carry out all the procedures, know how to carry out the treatment of radioactive contamination and be aware of the use of devices to monitor and minimize the radiation dose.

• Demonstrate knowledge in health promotion, radiation physics, radiological protection, radiobiology and dosimetry

• Give reasons and determine the nature of the treatments; develop work habits in the hospital environment in the techniques, available technologies and other professionals

•Interpret, analyze and discuss scientific studies, with acuteness and critical sense, building an autonomous technical-professional knowledge, sense of responsibility and problem solving capacity.

The student must acquire skills in:

• Apply scientific terminology

• Evaluate the information that justifies treatment plans, intervening in accordance with the protocols

•Assess clinical information and perform and evaluate all steps of a procedure according to recommendations.

•Develop all IMR procedures including: empathetic and enlightening communication techniques with patients, be able to prepare reports of all practical activity developed, responsibility for handling contrast products, radioactive substances and other drugs involved in carrying out the procedures.

Following the code of ethics associated with medical imaging and radiotherapy.

● Professional/patient relationship (information, care, symptomatology assessment, multidisciplinary team…)

● Carrying out procedures for: General Radiology; Mammography; Operating room; Angiography; Computed Tomography; Magnetic Resonance; Pediatrics

● Application of knowledge in radiological protection and safety

● Development of interpersonal and professional relationships with the team and with the patient

● Manipulation of all existing Radiology computer systems in daily practice.

● Application and deepening of the knowledge acquired in the theoretical and practical classes of the curricular unit of Radiopharmacy, Methods and Techniques in Imaging III, Clinical Practice III and Clinical Internship I. Consolidation of competences in the area of ​​intervention of Nuclear Medicine (within the scope of Radiopharmacy, Gamma Chamber, Positron Emission Tomography, Therapeutics, Nuclear Hematology), under the supervision of a Nuclear Medicine Technician responsible for monitoring the internship.

● Technical follow-up of the patient (information, care, symptom assessment, multidisciplinary team…)

● Approach to the most common Radiotherapy procedures;

● Handling of Radiotherapy equipment: Conventional/Virtual Simulation Planning CT, Linear Accelerators, Brachytherapy

● Clinical / Basic Dosimetry

● Application of knowledge in radiological protection and safety;

● Development of interpersonal and professional relationships with the team and with the patient.

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