La simulación frente a prácticas docentes tradicionales en la adquisición de competencias clínicas en semiología de abdomen en estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja durante septiembre 2012 – febrero 2013

Abstract

This research work was done by medicine career from Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja with the aim to assess the acquisition of clinical competence in abdominal semiology in the medicine students through objective structured clinical evaluation (OSCE), in order to compare two different teaching methodologies. A descriptive, comparative and quantitative study was employed in this investigation. The tabulation, analysis and the results were performed with the Excel program 2010; furthermore, measures of central tendency and dispersion as frequency and percent were used in this research work. As a result, students from the fifth and seventh cycle according to the acquisition of clinical competences in abdominal semiology was evidenced that students form the seventh cycle were deficient and insufficient with the 64% and 35% each one. On the other hand, students from the fifth cycle who received the workshops were remarkable in a 40% and outstanding with the 31%. According to these results was established that the teaching by simulation obtained better results than traditional teaching.