UAL and the Hospital de La Inmaculada collaborate in training, research and dissemination
The most geographically distant from the university campus, within the province of Almería itself, but minimized to the maximum the hundred kilometers that separate both venues through common interests and closeness of treatment. The Regional Hospital of La Inmaculada and the UAL have made a definitive approach towards the future during a visit that the rector Carmelo Rodríguez and his team have made this Friday the 23rd. With it, a journey started on March 19 in the Hospital de Poniente and continued this past April 13 at the Torrecárdenas University Hospital.
On the agenda of matters to be discussed has always been the direct contribution of professionals for the best planning of what is going to be the future Degree in Medicine at the University of Almería, in addition to the gratitude of this academic institution, in all three cases, to the reception of students in practices, especially from the Faculty of Health Sciences, although they have occurred in a notable variety of degrees from other centers. The rector has highlighted "the great value of having given us a clear image of what the health system in the province is", literally, "and having collected the suggestions of its protagonists in the first person, always showing us a constructive and exciting attitude, and finding interesting ways of collaborating”.
In this sense, and regarding the third and last visit of those scheduled and carried out, Carmelo Rodríguez thanked the fifty internships that the Hospital de la Inmaculada has coordinated with the University of Almería, "providing coverage to our students of the area, mainly, in some exemplary facilities in which there is space dedicated precisely to training”. The rector congratulated the hospital's professionals for their "unwavering sense of service during the COVID-19 crisis", also knowing that "it is a fundamental center for the quality of life that is enjoyed in the Alto Almanzora counties and Raise”. Its team of professionals "has a high qualification, as well as an enormous concern to continue training permanently and to provide solutions to society through research".
Rodríguez has also wanted to highlight the importance that "the practices that are carried out here can be very varied, having the three areas of Hospitalization and Surgical Interventions, Outpatient Consultations and Medical-Surgical Day Hospital, and Emergency" . Among his missions, "his performance of undergraduate, postgraduate and clinical and epidemiological research training tasks has been revealed." Precisely for this reason "the contributions made on the future Degree in Medicine that is being designed have been of great value".
For his part, from the North Almería Health Management area, the Medical Director Sergio Martínez thanked the rector and vice-rectors for Research and Postgraduate, Employability and Relations with Companies and Institutions of the University of Almería for the visit to La Inmaculada Hospital “building ties and synergies for a more fluid relationship every day”. Likewise, the Director of Nursing of the hospital center, Catalina Soriano, has emphasized the commitment that the management of the area has in training and teaching, "a fundamental pillar for future professionals, which even in this pandemic situation has remained for the sake of not delaying the formation of those who will be our relief”. "We want the best and best trained, so we have to get fully involved in their training." Similarly, she thanked the close collaboration with the university and its support with the transfer of a device to carry out the PCR.
With a hospitalization capacity of around 200 beds, distributed in 6 nursing units, it is integrated into the FIBAO, Foundation for Biosanitary Research of Eastern Andalusia - Alejandro Otero, within the Ministry of Health and Families, with whom the University of Almería actively collaborates. In this line, Juan García, vice-rector for Postgraduate, Employability and Relations with Companies and Institutions, has specified the data produced so far, with the Nursing Degree as the main one in curricular practices, followed by Physiotherapy, plus Administration. and Business Administration, Economics and Social Work, among others. Diego Valera, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, has placed special emphasis on the lines of the future that remain open: "We are going to collaborate more closely in R&D&I, taking into account its research potential, we are going to increase jointly and hand in hand continuous training, and we are going to explore joint actions of scientific dissemination and transfer in Health, associated with elements of strategic interest for the UAL, such as the environment, food or sports”.
In fact, understanding has already been given with the project "Physical exercise after bariatric surgery in the treatment of severe/morbid obesity: randomized controlled trial". In short, the understanding between both parties is very fluid and will bear greater fruit in the future.