This course provides students with a descríption of the theoretical foundations of the image generating devices used in medicine, including microscopy, x rays, computerized axial tomography and magnetic resonance; analysis and design of the equipment that produces these images as well as the study of the properties of generated images.

Students are introduced to concepts of medical instrumentation identification, analysis, and design. They also review the different elements that make up diagnostic, monitoring, and therapeutic equipment.

This course aims to explore cutting-edge technologies for the automation of processes in health care institutions by analyzing their feasibility, advantages and disadvantages and considering their efficiency, effectiveness and impact on the doctor-patient relationship.

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to take an active, effective role in the care of the growth and development of children and adolescents. They will behave ethically and professionally to protect the health of patients in these age groups and refer them promptly to a specialist in case of abnormal situations beyond their professional competence. Course aims will be achieved through bibliographic research, discussions with problematized clinical cases, group sharing experiences, collaborative work, outpatient consultation practices and duty shifts.

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to organize and reflect on their knowledge of the Basic Sciences to link it with the study of the Clinical Sciences included in their medical degree program in order to attain a competent performance in solving clinical cases of the most common first-contact care diseases and to pass national and international graduate medical specialty tests. Course aims will be achieved through readings, discussions, research, and a clinical reasoning approach to the management of clinical cases.

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to solve clinical problems involving the Clinical Sciences included in their medical degree program in order to attain a competent performance in patient care and to pass national and international graduate medical specialty tests. Course aims will be achieved through readings, discussions, research, and a clinical reasoning approach to the management of clinical cases.

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to explain the origin and meaning of the signs and symptoms that make up the most common syndromes and diseases in order to develop a more structured and systematic symptomatology and examination that allow them to integrate more efficient etiologic, nosologic, and functional diagnoses. All of this will be achieved through the attendance of lectures, participation in seminars on problematized clinical cases, additional research and practices in the Simulation and Virtual Medical Education laboratory.

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to review and analyze the principles and foundations of the practice of Thanatology within the practice of general medicine in order to have tools to help terminally ill patients at the time of their death and detect and address common situations related to family behavior in the face of death.

After completing this course, students will know and identify the principles and practice of environmental toxicology and its relation to health to establish mechanisms, appropriate methodologies, and critical paths of toxicological risks and its impact on health, in order to establish preventive measures to care for the disease resulting from exposure to such risks .