La simulación frente a prácticas docentes tradicionales en la adquisición de competencias clínicas para la toma de signos vitales en estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja durante septiembre 2012 – febrero 2013.

Abstract

This investigation was performed in the Medicine career in the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, this research work was done in order to assess the acquisition of clinical competences to take vital signs in medicine students through objective structured clinical evaluation (ECOE) with the purpose of comparing two teaching methodologies. A quantitative studied a kind of descriptive, comparative with transversal focus was employed. The tabulation, analysis and representation of results were done with the Microsoft Excel version 2010 program, also measures of central tendency and dispersion as frequency and percentage were applied. The sample was obtained from the first and the seventh cycle, according to the acquisition of clinical competences in the take of vital signs was evidence that these were deficient and insufficient in students from the seventh cycle with the 96% and 3% each one; otherwise, students from the first cycle who received the workshops achieved a 2% deficient, 37% sufficient, and 2% excellent. With the obtained results was proven that the teaching by simulation gave better results than the acquisition of clinical competences in the traditional teaching.