Bed side approach and clinical methodology (clerkship)

Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.

Students are expected to: - take the history of the patient - perform a clinical examination of the thorax: inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation - perform a clinical examination of the precordial region: palpation, auscultation - examine the arterial pulses - measure blood pressure - perform a clinical examination of the abdomen: inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation (liver, spleen).