2023-05-27 14:15:33
It is impossible to try to decipher the ‘secret’ of the University of Barcelona (UB) to get his leadership among the faculties of Medicine and Nursing of all country. The answer you gave to Medical Writing he Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Antoni Trillathe thing is “there is no secret”. After learning that, in the case of this race, the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranking positions her in the 46th place of the best medical schools in the worldthe first of the Spanish, assures that the only possible key is “a lot of work and trying to have the best possible team”.
“May our teachers have passion for medicine and teaching and that they can make their academic career compatible with their healthcare or research career. I wouldn’t say there is a secret, but there is a miracle. Medical schools and public universities we survive on an extraordinarily low budget to other universities”, assured Trilla.
To be among the best Spanish and world universities for the health field “It is very good news”. The University of Barcelona is accompanied in this list of best medical schools in the world the Complutense University, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the dean acknowledges that following three “very hard” years of the pandemic, being among the top 50 is a source of pride.
Teamwork at the Faculty of Medicine of the UB
For Trilla, teamwork at the UB Faculty of Medicine is “fundamental”, and it is so in three different areas: teaching, research and assistance. “That the Hospital and the CAPs, the Research Institutes and the faculty constitute a common environment where future doctors and other professionals in the health sciences are trained, in addition to the excellent level and dedication of all the students”, he enumerates.
Being able to benefit from the involvement and collaboration of teachers from four university hospitals such as the Clínic, Bellvitge, Mutua de Terrassa and Sant Joan de Deu is a great point in favor to achieve your successin addition to eight hospitals and associated health institutions or the nearly 40 Primary Care centers.
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“The University of Barcelona is, for Medicine, in the 46th position in the QS ranking of the best universities in the world and in Nursing among the hundred best” |
Nursing at the leading UB among Spanish faculties
According to the QS ranking, the Nursing faculty of the UB is the first of all the Spanish ones to position itself in this list of best universities, between positions 50 and 100. Joan Maria Estrada, director of the School of Nursing and Vice Dean of Medicine and Health Sciences, believes that the main reasons that make the Nursing School the most outstanding are its great potential, the recognition of graduate students with “one hundred percent occupancy”, conditioned facilities, virtualization or the “empowerment of new students”.
But if there is something to highlight regarding the faculty that is “different from others” it is a project focused on the student body. nursing was pioneer in launching the Tutorial Action Plan (PAT)an initiative whose main function is to provide personalized support to students throughout the degree.
“Each student from the first year is assigned a course tutora professor who will accompany him throughout his four years of training and who will advise him on everything he requests”, explains Estrada.
Medicine and Nursing teachers who prioritize practice
Teachers and students are the “fundamental pillars” that support both faculties and, regarding this first group, Trilla assures that the level “is very good” but it is essential that the evaluation agencies value “increasingly” the merits of care and teaching to that the professionals explain to the students “the trade”.
In the case of Nursing, Estrada recalls that it was a diploma until 2009, which has conditioned access to doctoral studies and that it requires from teachers “an extra effort and enormous dedication”.
“It should be noted that of the 51 full-time professors who currently train UB Nursing students, almost one hundred percent are doctors, of whom more than 60 percent have higher-level academic categories: associate professors, holders and professors”, he acknowledges.
For the practical training of studentsthe School has hired 335 nurses who tutor and they follow up in hospitals, primary care centers and specialty centers, and in which students carry out 2,300 effective hours of “direct” training in contact with patients.
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“Expanding the faculty, the Hospital Clínic and the research institutes is the dream of the Faculty of Medicine of the UB” |
Where is the future of Medicine and Nursing going at the UB?
The objective of both faculties of the UB goes through stay in the best positions of this ranking and, therefore, both are focused on different future projects.
“We are reviewing the teaching plans and technology and for this we are collaborating with the College of Physicians of Barcelona and with the health authorities to advance in a “complicated economic environment”. In addition, there is an extraordinary and totally necessary project, an opportunity that presents itself once every hundred years, such as to be able to expand the faculty, the Hospital Clínic and the Research Institutes in a suitable location and with modern and sustainable facilities”, acknowledges Trilla.
On the part of the School of Nursing, per hour they focus on the growth of students and teachers, increase the number of internships and the postgraduate training offer. “Also promote international mobility and facilitate the training, innovation and research of the teaching team,” concludes Estrada.
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