Skills to be acquired

Basic skills

  • Apply acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of ​​study.
  • Ability to integrate knowledge and address the complexity of making judgments based on information that, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  • Communicate conclusions from acquired knowledge and study results clearly.
  • Possess learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a manner that should be largely self-directed or autonomous.

Specific competencies

  • Understand the portals, indications, and various arthroscopic surgical techniques in wrist, elbow, and shoulder surgery.
  • Understand the portals, indications, and various arthroscopic surgical techniques in wrist, elbow, and shoulder surgery.
  • Understand the indications and various open surgical techniques (fracture osteosynthesis, fracture sequelae, arthrodesis, and arthroplasty) in wrist, hand, elbow, and shoulder surgery.
  • Understand the most common orthopedic and traumatic pathologies of the hand and wrist, congenital hand, hand tumors, common skin coverings, brachial plexus injury, tendon transfers, nerve palsies, and peripheral nerve reconstruction surgery.
  • Acquire basic knowledge of skin coverage and microsurgery useful for orthopedic surgeons in the reconstruction of soft tissue defects in the wrist, hand, and fingers, techniques that are more frequently used in plastic surgery.
  • Acquire basic knowledge of microsurgery useful for orthopedic surgeons. This technique, for hand surgeons, allows for the reconstruction of the brachial plexus and peripheral nerves, among others.
  • Innovation: acquire knowledge of innovative surgical techniques for the repair of various injuries. Surgical techniques that have been performed with a small incision (mini-open or arthroscopic). Techniques using personalized surgical planning with 3D guides.
  • Acquire basic concepts of anesthesia in upper extremity surgery and postoperative pain control in patients undergoing major outpatient surgery. – Acquire knowledge of rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, chondrocalcinosis, etc.) that can affect the wrist and hand, causing instability and degenerative arthropathy.

Transversal competences

  • Teamwork, sustainability, and resource utilization.
  • Demonstrate reasoning and appropriate and timely decision-making in conflict situations, whether ethical, ethnic, religious, cultural, legal, economic, or anything related to medical and scientific innovations and advances.
  • Appropriately organize and plan workload and time for professional activities.
  • Teach and communicate the knowledge and techniques learned to other professional groups.
  • Professionally demonstrate a critical and creative approach and an interest in research.
  • Demonstrate the use and proper implementation of research methodology. – Demonstrate clear oral and written communication with other professionals.