Social Security System/Prescriptions

Study facts

Course codeMEDTRYGD
Teaching beginsSpring
Number of semesters1
Teaching language
Norwegian
Study levelPostgraduate Courses
Resources
Belongs toDepartment of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Contact

Contact Information

Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

E-mail: studie@igs.uib.no

Course Coordinator:

Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

E-mail: ingvild.sandoy@igs.uib.no

Contact Information

Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

E-mail: studie@igs.uib.no

Course Coordinator:

Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

http://www.uib.no/persons/Ingvild.Sandoy

Aim and Content

The aim of the course is to provide medical students insight in relevant regulations and practices in social insurance and medical prescriptions. The course aims at providing attitudes leading to correct and conscious use of social insurance benefits and medications

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

After completing the course, the students should be able to explain

- relevant social insurance and welfare benefits

- work and welfare administration and the physicians part related to this

- rules for writing prescriptions

- the physicians part related to the pharmacy

Skills

After completing the course, the students should be able to

- write medical certificates

- write prescriptions

General skills

After completing the course, the students should be able to

- understand the physicians part related to welfare medicine

- have attitudes that lead to correct and conscious use of social insurance benefits and medications

- understand the physicians part related to the pharmacy

Course offered (semester)

Spring

Teaching Methods

lectures

team-based learning with multiple choice tests and group work

and discussion

Total: 18 hours

Compulsory Requirements

Four individual multipe choice tests, and group work on cases in the booklet ¿Arbeidshefte til Kurs i trygdemedisin og reseptlære¿. The booklet must be approved.

At least 50% of the last multiple choice test must be correct and 70% of the booklet should be satisfactorily completed in order to pass

Compulsory Requirements

Three individual multipe choice tests, and group work on cases in the booklet "Arbeidshefte til Kurs i trygdemedisin og reseptlære". 80% of the booklet should be satisfactorily completed in order to pass.

At least 75% presence is required.

Assessment methods

Pass/Fail.

Part of exam in MEDSAM (grading scale A-F)

Reading List

J.G. Mæland. Veileder i trygdemedisin. Gyldendal Akademisk