Estudia

• Reconèixer els elements essencials de la professió mèdica, que incloguin els principis ètics, les responsabilitats legals i l'exercici professional centrat en el pacient
• Desenvolupar la pràctica professional amb respecte pels altres professionals de la salut, adquirint habilitats de treball en equip
• Comunicar-se de manera efectiva i clara, tant oralment com per escrit, amb els pacients, els familiars, els mitjans de comunicació i altres professionals
• Conèixer, valorar críticament i saber utilitzar les fonts d'informació clínica i biomèdica per a obtenir, organitzar, interpretar i comunicar la informació científica i sanitària
• Saber utilitzar les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació en les activitats clíniques, terapèutiques, preventives i d'investigació
• Tenir, en l'activitat professional, un punt de vista crític, creatiu, amb escepticisme constructiu i orientat a la recerca
• Garantir el coneixement adequat de la llengua anglesa, tant oral com escrita, tenint en compte les especificitats del registre mèdic per a poder comunicar-se eficaçment a la comunitat internacional científica i professional

1. What “neglected tropical diseases” are and their types, specificities, epidemiological situation and transmission

2. Differences between control, elimination, eradication of a disease and related with neglected tropical diseases

3. Epidemiological indicators needed to monitor and evaluate interventions to control neglected tropical diseases

4. Describe main global challenges for neglected tropical diseases control in different areas (prevention, diagnostics, treatments, implementation and research)

5. Describe the interventions lead by WHO, local or regional governments or NGO in order to manage Neglected Tropical Diseases.

6. Understand the specificities of the work done by health professionals working in the field in NTD endemic areas

7. Different approaches: Mass Drug Administration vs. case-based approach

8. Understand the importance of Digital Health interventions in Low and Middle Income Settings

9. Relation between NTDs and Agenda 2030

10. Impact of COVID-19 in low and middle income settings.

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• Carme Carrion, Noemí Robles, Oriol Sola-Morales, Marta Aymerich, Jose Antonio Ruiz Postigo. (2020). Mobile Health Strategies to Tackle Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases With Recomme. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth,, . Recuperat , a https://mhealth.jmir.org/2020/12/e22478/
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• WHO (2021). Podoconiosis: Training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs. Recuperat , a https://openwho.org/courses/NTDs-podoconiosis-EN
• WHO (2021). Tungiasis – Sand Flea disease: Training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs. Recuperat , a https://openwho.org/courses/NTDs-tungiasis
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Activitats d'avaluació:

Evaluation has 3 parts (PBL sessions, PBL exam and group activity) and ball of them must be passed independently. In case PBL exam or group activity are failed, there will be a second opportunity to do them, but with a maximum score of 5 points.

- PBL sessions evaluation will account for 50% of the module evaluation.
Criteria (Grade proportion)
Responsibility (25%)
Learning abilities (25%)
Communication (25%)
Interpersonal relationships (25%)

- PBL exam will account for 10%.

- The group activity with oral presentation will account for 40%:

Attendance to the Workshops and Seminars must be higher than 80%

The maximum score that can be obtained from the evaluations of the
activities that student failed in the first attempt will be a maximum of 5 regardless of the grade obtained.
This grade will be averaged with the grade that the student obtained in the other evaluable activities that student has previously obtained.

If fraudulent actions are detected in any type of academic activity
(use of information without authorization, use of false information, use of unauthorized devices, impersonation, total or partial plagiarism, purchase and sale of tests, practices and assignments, etc) the students involved will suspend automatically the subject regardless of the possible disciplinary process proceed against the offending student (article 21 of the Rules governing the processes
of evaluation and qualification of students, approved by the Governing Council in the session 11/2019, of December 16, 2019 (eBOU-1751)

Criteris específics de la nota «No Presentat»:
Not attending PBL sessions
Not attending workshops (more than 20%) because of a non justified reason.
Not participating in the activity group

Avaluació única:
In exceptional situations, students will be able to take advantage of a single assessment that will consist of a virtual PBL exam

The single assessment regulations are established based on the Regulations of student assessment and qualification processes, approved by the Governing Council in the 11/2019 session, of 16 December 2019 (eBOU-1751), and to the resolution of the Commission of Government of the Faculty of Medicine of September 15, 2020

Based on the resolution of the Governing Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of September 15, 2020, point 3 of Article 8 states that applications for single evaluation must be submitted no later than one week before the end of the module

Requisits mínims per aprovar:
Minimum score must be above 5.0 in the 3 sections:

- PBL sessions
- Group activity
- PBL exam

Any communication with the coordinator of the module will be performed through email: carme.carrion@udg.edu

In case a teleconference is needed we will use the system recommended by the University.

Any communication with the coordinator of the module will be performed through email: carme.carrion@udg.edu

In case a teleconference is needed we will use the system recommended by the University.

More than 1 billion people – a sixth of the world’s population – suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases. These diseases represent about 17% of the global burden of parasitic and infectious diseases. Most neglected tropical diseases are endemic in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa and in poor urban settings of low-income countries in Asia and Latin America. They lead to long-term disability, disfigurement, impaired childhood growth, adverse pregnancy outcomes and reduced economic productivity.

Addressing neglected tropical diseases from a public health perspective often involve negotiations not only on what we want (our interests), but also on core beliefs about public health needs and priorities, and the way government and society should be working to respond to those needs and priorities (our values).

This elective provides the opportunity to learn the current global situation of neglected tropical diseases, how large-scale interventions for control are organized and main challenges for implementation and sustainability of control.

This elective will transversally incorporate the perspective of gender in learning objectives, teaching methodology, learning resources and evaluation