In-person activities may be carried out online if necessary.
The methodology will consist of blocks with the following sequence of activities:
1 – One-hour lecture (classroom activity): it consists of a presentation by the teacher of the main objectives of the subject, developing the most relevant topics or those posing specific difficulties for students. The teacher will propose practical, realistic problems related to the contents and objectives of the subject matter, to be resolved by students.
2 –Eight to nine hours of student’s personal work: based on the above lecture contents, students will prepare a seminar presentation about a study case, or they will carry a bibliographic research, or propose solutions to a practical case raised by the teacher. This will serve to gain further insight into the topic covered by lectures, to achieve a better understanding of the subject and its implications, or to apply learned concepts to real situations.
3 – Two hours of student seminars or presentations: students will present and discuss under the supervision of the teacher, the result of their personal work mentioned in section 2. These two hours of classroom activities will take place far enough after the corresponding introductory lecture, so that students will have adequate time to do the necessary personal work.
4 – An average of half an hour of group-tutoring for each of the previous blocks, usually at some point during the implementation of paragraph 2.
The course consists essentially of 8 blocks of this type. These blocks may be consecutive to each other, cyclically, or may partially or completely overlap, so that, for example, 4 hours of lectures will be followed by 8 hours of students, with an interlude of one or more weeks allowing students to perform the corresponding 8-9 hours of personal work corresponding to the introductory one hour lecture.
In-person activities may be carried out online if necessary.
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TYPE
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Hours
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%
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Total
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Activities with tuition staff
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Lectures
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8
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8
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30 hours
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Classrom practice / Seminars / Workshops
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16
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16
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Labs / field / computer-room practicals
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0
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0
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Hospital clinical practice
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0
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0
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Group tutorials
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4
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4
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Placements
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0
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0
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Assessment sessions
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2
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2
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Students personal work
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Group work
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0
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0
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70 hours
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Individual work
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70
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70
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Total
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100
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Approximate timetable:
Depending on term schedules, number of students and combined preferences, the work plan may be implemented in a combination of overlapping and/or cyclic modes, as follows:
[Overlapping mode:]
- Lectures: One or two hours daily to a total of 8h.
- Seminars or students presentations: 8-hour blocks at a rate of one to two hours per day.
[Cyclic mode:]
- Lectures: One or two hours per week to a total of 8h.
- Seminars or students presentations: One or two weekly sessions of 2 hours, to a total of 16h.
[Common to both ways:]
- Group tutorials: A total of four hours distributed between the lectures and the seminars.
- Assessment session: One 2-hour assessment session.
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