Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Grao en Terapia Ocupacional
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  Work Placement VII
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Methodologies Description
Case study Methodology where the person is faced with the description of a specific situation that poses a problem that must be understood, valued and resolved by a group, through a discussion process. The student is faced with a specific problem (case), which describes a real situation in professional life, and must be able to analyze a series of facts, referring to a particular field of knowledge or action, to arrive at a reasoned decision through a process of discussion in small working groups.

It allows acquiring the specific competences referenced in this subject.
Student portfolio It is a folder or filing cabinet ordered by sections, duly identified or labeled, which contains the records or materials resulting from the learning activities carried out by the students over a period of time, with the comments and grades assigned by the teacher. which allows you to visualize the progress of the student. The portfolio or folder includes everything that the student does, such as: notes or class notes, research papers, work guides and their development, note comments, resumes, written tests, self-assessments, tasks developed, progress comments of the student made by the teacher, etc.

It allows acquiring the generic and specific competences referenced in this matter.
Critical bibliographical The bibliographical review supposes a process of critical reading of a book, an article, a thesis or a communication to a congress. As such a process includes the reading of the work, the analysis of its content and a critique and assessment of it in relation to the existing literature on the subject. A review does not imply a summary of the work, nor a mere analysis of the content, since what gives it meaning and a scientific academic dimension is the criticism that it deserves in the opinion of the author of the review, in relation to other known works. of even the scope or in relation to their own experience.

It allows to acquire the specific skills revered in this matter.
Introductory activities Activities that are carried out before starting any teaching-learning process in order to know the skills, interests and/or motivations that the students have for the achievement of the objectives that they want to achieve, linked to a training program. With it, it is intended to obtain relevant information that allows articulating teaching to favor effective and significant learning, which starts from the previous knowledge of the students.

Information on internship centres, organization of rotations, distribution of students according to their own field of preferred internships: childhood and adolescence; adults I (physical and neurological rehabilitation); adults II (mental health); older people; community.
Clinical practice placement Clinical teaching can be understood as an instructional process that takes place in a natural environment related to the exercise of a profession, in which students observe and participate in clinical activities designed to provide them with opportunities that involve the application of facts, theories and principles related to its practice.

Long-term clinical/community internships will be carried out in all those centers agreed with the Faculty of Health Sciences that are related to any of the areas of activity of the Occupational Therapy professional.

Attendance at clinical/community practices is mandatory. In the event that the student cannot attend on time one day, according to the established internship calendar, she must notify both the agreed center and the teacher responsible for the subject.
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