Simulación en la adquisición de competencias clínicas para atención del paciente con trauma de columna vertebral y médula espinal con estudiantes de medicina de la UTPL, periodo octubre 2015 - febrero 2016

Abstract

´This project seeks to implement the workshop simulation in spinal cord and spine trauma through the development of teaching materials in order to achieve a clinical competence in medical students. It was used a sample of 51 students in ninth cycle of the Degree of Doctor of Medicine of Technical University of Loja (UTPL) and they were divided into 26 students on campus and 25 students in virtual mode; to which they were provided with educational materials and it was implemented a workshop with everything about "spinal cord and spine trauma". Later the students were evaluated with the Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE). The results obtained were as follows: Classroom modality reached 38.46% with scores of 20 (outstanding); virtual modality reached 32% with score of 19 (outstanding). In the virtual group four scores between 10-13 (insufficient) were achieved. Concluding that 92% of students gained the clinical competence without much difference between the two modalities (95% σ = 0.71).