Simulación en la adquisición de la competencia clínica para realizar examen ginecológico y toma de pap test en estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, periodo septiembre 2013-febrero 2014

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to increase the number of simulation workshops focused on gynecological examinations and pap tests in order to compare the clinical competency acquired between the face-to-face and virtual tutoring that was done through the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). To reach the established objective the research did a descriptive and prospective study composed of 54 ninth-cycle medicine school students at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja who were registered in the september 2013-february 2014 academic period of the Gynecological-Obstetrician Internship. These students attended the workshops and the following results were obtained: during the initial evaluation, 100% of the students who belonged to the in-person tutoring passed the test with an average ≥ 14 while 92.58% of the virtual learning students passed and received an average ≥ 14. The remaining 7.41% did not pass the test whit an average score between 10 and 13. In spite of this, 100% of the students in both groups passed the OSCE final examination with an average ≥ 14. Thus, the necessary skills required to pass the gynecological examination and pap test can be acquired through both methodologies, although with better results in the person tutoring.