5-YEAR RESIDENTIAL MEDICAL TRAINING PROGRAM
The specialty program is structured across five academic years in which the resident dedicates all their time to teaching, patient care, administrative, and research activities. Its organizational structure is the module, which has been formed according to the functions assigned to the professional profile and the different medical conditions that the specialist must address, according to the systems of the human body and the organization of the levels of care
CURRICULUM
MEDICAL TREATMENT FUNCTION
Module 1. Clinical method
Module 2. Emergency care
2.1. On-duty emergency team
2.2. Intermediate therapy
2.3. Intensive medicine
Module 3. Non-communicable chronic diseases
3.1. Bronchial asthma
3.2. Diabetes mellitus
3.3. Arterial hypertension
3.4. Ischemic heart disease
3.5. Cerebrovascular diseases
Module 4. Care of respiratory system diseases
4.1. Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia
4.2. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
4.3. Bronchiectasis
4.4. Lung neoplasms
4.5. Mediastinal syndrome
4.6. Pleural diseases, pleurisy and spontaneous pneumothorax
4.7. Occupational lung diseases
Module 5. Diseases of the cardiovascular system
5.1. Heart failure
5.2. Infective endocarditis
5.3. Valvopathies
5.4. Chronic right heart failure
5.5. Pulmonary thromboembolism
5.6. Peripheral vascular disease
5.7. Arrhythmias
5.8. Pericarditis
5.9. Myocardiopathies
5.10. Adult congenital heart disease
Module 6. Diseases of the digestive system
6.1. Diagnosis and treatment of dysphagia
6.2. Diseases of the stomach and duodenum: gastroduodenal peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, neoplasm of the stomach
6.3. Diseases of the liver and bile ducts: acute and chronic viral hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, liver tumors, cholecystitis
6.4. Entero-colic diseases and syndromes: intestinal malabsorption syndrome, chronic inflammatory diseases of the intestine
6.5. Irritable colon, diverticulosis and colon neoplasms
6.6. Diseases of the pancreas: chronic pancreatitis and cancer of the pancreas
Module 7. Diseases of the urinary system
7.1. Glomerular disorders
7.2. Acute and chronic kidney failure: tubulointerstitial diseases and toxic nephropathies
7.3. Obstructive uropathy
7.4. Infections of the urinary tract and pyelonephritis
7.5. Kidney stones
7.6. Cystic diseases of the kidney
7.7. Tumors of the kidney, urethra and bladder
Module 8. Diseases of the hematopoietic and lymphatic system
8.1. Anemias
8.2. Adenic syndrome and splenomegaly
8.3. Leukopenia
8.4. Eosinophilia
8.5. Malignant hemopathies, leukemias, lymphomas, plasma cell dyscrasias and other malignant hemopathies
8.6. Polycythemia
8.7. Purpuric syndromes and blood clotting disorders
8.8. Thrombophilia
8.9. Transfusion of blood and blood products
Module 9. Diseases of the nervous system
9.1. Epilepsy
9.2. Coma
9.3. Intracranial hypertension
9.4. Contagious diseases of the CNS: meningoencephalitis and brain abscess
9.5. Brain tumors
9.6. Polyneuropathies
9.7. Muscular atrophies
9.8. Parkinson’s disease and extrapyramidal syndromes
9.9. Myasthenia gravis
Module 10. Musculoskeletal and connective tissue diseases
10.1. Osteoporosis
10.2. Rheumatoid arthritis
10.3. Spondyloarthropathies
10.4. Arthritis
10.5. Systemic lupus erythematosus
10.6. Systemic sclerosis
10.7. Sjögren syndrome
10.8. Vasculitis syndromes
10.9. Polyarteritis nodosa
10.10. Wegener’s granulomatosis
10.11. Polymyalgia rheumatica, giant cell arteritis
10.12. Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
10.13. Amyloidosis
10.14. Panniculitis and subcutaneous fat disorders
10.15. Gout and uric acid metabolism
10.16. Other arthropathies due to crystal deposition
10.17. Osteoarthritis
10.18. Systemic diseases characterized by arthritis
10.19. Non-articular rheumatism
10.20. Erythromelalgia
10.21. Multifocal fibrosclerosis
Module 11. Endocrine metabolic diseases
11.1. Neuroendocrine integration
11.2. Hypothalamic-pituitary syndromes
11.3. Diseases of the thyroid. Hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, thyroiditis
11.4. Diseases of the adrenals. acute and chronic adrenal insufficiency
11.5. Pituitary tumors
11.6. Nutritional diseases
11.7. Hyperlipoproteinemia
11.8. Gonadal syndromes
11.9. Parathyroid syndromes
11.10. Paraneoplastic syndromes with endocrinological manifestations
11.11. Deficiency diseases of different types of vitamins
Module 12. Infectious diseases
12.1. Bacterial infections
12.2. Tuberculosis and leprosy
12.3. Leptospirosis
12.4. Sexually transmitted diseases
12.5. Chlamydia
12.6. Viral diseases
12.7. HIV infection and disease
12.8. Mycosis
12.9. Protozoa and helminths
Module 13. Care of the elderly
TEACHING FUNCTION
Module 14. The teaching-learning process in the clinic
RESEARCH FUNCTION
Module 15. Clinical research
MANAGEMENT FUNCTION
Module 16. The Administration in the national health system
