The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona, ​​through the Master’s Degree in “Critical Illness and Emergencies”, offers the course Fundamentals in Critical Care and Emergencies. This is a totally online course, of 30 ECTS credits, aimed at acquiring the theoretical knowledge essential to be able to attend a critical patient wherever it is: ICU, emergencies, and prehospital emergencies.

All aspects related to physiopathology, clinical manifestations, monitoring, actions, treatment and follow-up in the different pathologies that can affect a critical patient are addressed in depth. Lessons are created to follow the patient’s care continuum. Teaching contents are taught online through audio-visual capsules and seminar presentations, electronic textbooks, as well as tutorials and evaluations by telepresence.

It is a multidisciplinary course, aimed at health professionals (medicine, nursing), who may or may not be trained in critical care but who may face situations of reception for acute patients and victims of disasters.

Registration fee: € 2,800 (€ 93 per ECTS credit). Same price for European Union and international students. A diploma of Specialization / Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Barcelona is awarded. Convalidatable with Module 1 of the Master’s Degree in Critical Illness and Emergencies in case the student later wishes to continue studying the Master’s.