Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Nursing and Podiatry
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Grao en Podoloxía
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  Cirugía Podolóxica 2
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Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Lectures will be developed in an expositive-participative way with important audiovisual resources.
During keynote sessions the student will deal with English vocabulary and lecture 2 will be taught in this language.
Through moodle website (https://campusvirtual.udc.es/moodle/) the student will have additional resources available to support course topics as well as to work in and out of the classroom. The teacher will also be able to deliver additional material on the website www.foroactua.com

NOTE:
According to UDC regulations (http://www.udc.es/comunicacion/novas/2012/05/nota_prensa_20120529.html), students with part-time enrollment have a prior right to choose turn when there are two or more groups with different schedules in a given subject and a flexible system of class attendance.
Laboratory practice Assistance to the practices of laboratory is compulsory in his whole and his general aim is that the student/to develop some basic skills in the handle of the surgical instruments and know the protocol prequirúrgico of the University Clinic of Podiatry of the UDC.
The absence to said practices only will be justified in the case to produce any of the following causes, properly accredited (with justificante with date of the same day of the absence that will owe to be delivered before past 10 days of the absence to the professor of the matter), illness or injury that incapacitate for the realisation of the practice, demise of a familiar until the second degree, citación judicial that coincide with the date of the practice, assistance to a session of the Claustro or of the Council of Government of the UDC that coincide with the date of the practice, the/the student will have right to not to recover it until a maximum of 5 practices, a greater number of faults justified or the existence of faults injustificadas can suppose the suspense of the matter.
To end to allow the complementary training of the student inside the same also will be able to recognise like such practices the assistance to activities of importance and interest for the degree. Of the participation in such activities will owe to deliver the certificate of assistance before they happen 10 days from his celebration and communicating the intention to assist with at least 10 days ahead. Between these activities of which can recognise a maximum of 3 absences to practices of laboratory are:
-national Congress of Podiatry
-Galician Days of Podiatry
-International Congresses of Podiatry
-Congress of students of Podiatry
-Days Laboralia
-Other activities that can be valued by the professor of the matter

The student will have to assist to the practice of laboratory incorporating to the group that has been him assigned. It will realise control of assistance in which the student must sign to the start of the practice. The signature is the guarantee of the assistance of the student/to to the practice by what the absence of this will be able to understand like a fault to the practice of laboratory. Any fault justified has to to document properly with the cause and dates of the day and deliver to the professor of the matter before past 10 days from the absence. Punctuality to practices is of forced fulfillment by what the faults reiterated of punctuality will be penalised and can suppose the suspense of the matter.

NOTICE: It is mandatory for students to attend lab practice wearing a white gown or white pijama, pen and notebook.

Seminar In the seminars students will work specific topics of the syllabus through the development of groupal activities that will serve to deepen the content of the subject.
The student will deal with English and Spanish textbooks and lecture notes interchangeably.
Activities done in each seminar will be reflected with the delivery of an individual or groupal activity. Activities related with seminars are mandatory and can not be replaced by another activity of the course. The student is also required to reach half of the seminar's total score to pass the subject. Failure to do so, in the evaluation of July the student will have to answer 10 multiple choice questions related to different topics disscused in the seminars.
Supervised projects The student will be required to perform and exposed in the classroom one mandatory groupal supervised project related to any of the topics of the syllabus. The guidelines for its implementation and the delivery date and exposure will be detailed at the beginning of the academic year and posted on the virtual platform of the UDC. In its development and/or exposure the student will be required to use English language.
In qualifying the project the following items will be considered: Understanding the topic, scientific rigor, synthesis and critical and adequacy of the literature consulted
Long answer / essay questions Of those teaching units on the syllabus indicated by the teacher the student will take an individual test / development that aims to assess the capacity of reasoning, creativity and critical thinking of students.
This long answer/essay questions will be scored with 0 or 1 point depending on whether or not exceed the test-development tests carried out along the course:
-Between 70 and 100% of essays are passed = 1 pts
-Between 50 and 70% of essays are passed = 0.5 pts
-Less than 50% of essays are passed = 0 pts
The guidelines for implementation will at the beginning of the course.
Objective test An objective test of 50 multiple choice questions will be made.
This test will include questions related to contents covered in lectures, clinical cases seen in the classroom, with the labs, seminars and any topic of interest that the teacher indicates and should be worked by students . Information on the score of the questions wlll be provided the day of its performance. Students need to get at least 5 points of 10 possible to overcome the objective test.
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