Interdependencia de habilidades comunicativas y propias de la profesión para la elaboración de historias clínicas en estudiantes angloparlantes / Interdependence of communicative skills and others for the profession in the elaboration of clinical charts by English-speaking students

INTRODUCCIÓN: a partir del supuesto de que la elaboración de historias clínicas durante los estudios médicos requiere de habilidades propias de la profesión que formarán parte de las competencias clínicas del médico, a la vez que las habilidades comunicativas son consideradas como sub competencias de aquellas; pudieran generarse entonces limitaciones en la formación y desarrollo de determinadas competencias clínicas por fallos comunicativos. OBJETIVO: explorar las posibles afectaciones de cinco habilidades propias de la profesión que se expresan en la elaboración de historias clínicas en la universidad médica de Villa Clara. MÉTODOS: se realizó un estudio exploratorio de corte cualitativo sobre la percepción de profesores del área clínica y estudiantes angloparlantes de quinto año. RESULTADOS: se constató según sus valoraciones, que existe relación entre las habilidades comunicativas y las propias de la profesión médica estudiadas; con las mayores afectaciones en la relación médico paciente, la caracterización de la historia natural de la enfermedad y de los síntomas y signos en diferentes enfermedades. CONCLUSIONES: entre las competencias comunicativas de los estudiantes angloparlantes y las competencias clínicas a desarrollar en su formación médica existe una fuerte interdependencia que requiere de una mayor atención didáctica.

INTRODUCTION: Taking in to consideration the performance of clinical records during the medicine studies, it requires specific abilities of the profession that will take part in the clinical competence of the practitioner, although the communicative abilities are considered as sub competence; so there could be limitations in the development and formation of some clinical competences due to some communicative failures. OBJECTIVE: To explore the possible difficulties in some of the abilities of the profession which are used when performing clinical records in the medical university. METHODS: A qualitative and exploratory study was carried out by professors of the clinical area and English speaking students of fifth year. RESULTS: there is a relation between the abilities of the medical profession and the communicative abilities with a great affectation in the patient-doctor relation, the characterization of the nature of the disease and the signs and symptoms of different diseases. CONCLUSIONS: It is concluded that is strong interdependency between the clinical abilities and the communicative abilities in the English speaking students of fifth year which requires a greater didactic attention.

The Effect of Several Problem-based Learning Tutorials on Clinical Abilities Before and After Graduation / 医学教育

We examined the effects of several problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials on the development of clinical abilities among medical students. In 1988, 2 years before our university implemented the PBL tutorial curriculum, one to three trial tutorials were used for a portion of the students in the 1st through 3rd years to identify a suitable tutorial education system for Japanese students. To examine the effects of these trial tutorials, we sent questionnaires to graduates who had participated in the trial tutorials and to those who had not. We found that graduates who had participated in the trial tutorials were more likely than graduates who had not to report logical thinking capabilities during their undergraduate years and clinical problem-solving abilities at the end of their internship. The results suggest that the use of one or more tutorials is effective in helping students develop logical thinking and problem-solving ability.