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The Medical Education Unit is born

06/02/2024
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Medical education is a scientific field whose primary goal is to achieve excellence in the training of healthcare professionals, in accordance with the best pedagogical strategies available. With this purpose in mind, the Medical Education Unit was born as part of the School of Medicine, under the Chair of Medical Education and Humanisation 'Nemesio Diez'. The dean of the School, Tomás Chivato, explained that the main mission of the unit is to promote, encourage, and coordinate lines of action that contribute to better training of students in the degrees taught: Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Dentistry, and Genetics.

The Medical Education Unit will focus on improvement in the acquisition and assessment of competencies and skills that students must acquire; integration of basic and clinical teachings; development of  multidisciplinary teaching initiatives that involve students and professors from different degrees in order to enhance dialogue, teamwork, and collaboration among different healthcare professionals who provide an integrated view more in line with work needs; sharing of new teaching methodologies, and development of simulation and of research in medical education.

The Dean of the School of Health and Life Sciences at Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Arcadi Gual Sala, took part in the presentation along with Jordi Palés Argullós, Vice-Dean of the School of Health and Life Sciences at UAO CEU. The Dean explained the importance of having a Medical Education Unit in the School of Medicine while Palés delivered the seminar entitled 'From Learning Assessment to Assessment for Learning: Programmatical Assessment,' in which he emphasised the importance of including appropriate feedback to students in assessment methods, whether the assessment objective is formative or summative. He highlighted that "Providing continuous feedback will facilitate the student's awareness of their level of competency acquisition, their progress, and will allow necessary measures to be taken, if necessary, for their improvement or correction.

Palabras clave Medical education Humanisation Nemesio Diez Research Programmatic evaluation