Visión integradora del pase de visita médico asistencial y docente en hospitales universitarios de Ecuador / Integrated vision of the clinical and educational round at Ecuador university hospitals

Introducción: El pase de visita docente asistencial en las instituciones docentes hospitalarias es complejo y hay que vencer diferentes objetivos en una misma actividad. Objetivo: Proponer un diseño a partir de concepciones pedagógicas actuales del pase de visita médico asistencial y docente en hospitales universitarios ecuatorianos. Material y Métodos: Se realizó una revisión de la bibliografía relacionada con los procesos pedagógicos de la educación en el trabajo en la formación médica. Se utilizaron los buscadores PubMed, Cochrane Library y Google académico, para identificar, seleccionar, estructurar y dar una visión sistémica del pase de visita médico docente-asistencial, proponiendo bases estructurales y metodológicas, partiendo de la experiencia cubana y directivas académicas propias de Ecuador. Desarrollo: El pase de visita docente- asistencial como forma de educación en el trabajo para obtener la excelencia debe de ser más integrador donde no solo se utilice el método clínico, sino el clínico y epidemiológico, y donde estén integrados objetivos gerenciales, se utilicen métodos pedagógicos constructivistas, concepciones del entorno salud-enfermedad del tipo holísticos, a través de estrategias de participación heurísticas. Conclusiones: La utilización de un modelo de actuación con fundamentos científicos, adecuadamente estructurado y basado en transformaciones pedagógicas cualitativas que se interrelacionen con los procesos asistenciales, gerenciales y donde el paciente sea evaluado integralmente, ofrece un enfoque más sistemático de esta actividad(AU)

Introduction: The educational and assistance round in the educational-hospital institutions is complex and it is necessary to overcome different goals in the same activity. Objective: To provide a design from current pedagogical conceptions of educational-medical rounds at Ecuadorian university hospitals. Material and Methods: It carried out review of the related bibliography with the pedagogic processes of education in the work of medical formation. Were used the searchers PubMed, Cochrane Library and Google scholar to know, select, built, analyze and give a systematic view of the educational and assistance round in Ecuador, proposing structural and methodological bases, starting from the Cuban’s experience and the own Ecuadorian academic directives. Development: Educational-medical rounds as educational method of labor to obtain excellence must be more inclusive not using only the clinical method, but also clinical and epidemiological method shall be included and where integrated management objectives must be joined, using pedagogical constructional methods, holistic health-disease environment through heuristic participation strategies. Conclusion: The use of a proceeding model on a scientific basis properly structured and based on qualitative educational transformations that interrelate with medical caretaking and management issues where patients are evaluated integrally, provides a systemic approach process to this activity(AU)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assessment test scores corresponding to modified Medical Research Council grades among COPD patients

BACKGROUND/AIMS: In assigning patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to subgroups according to the updated guidelines of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, discrepancies have been noted between the COPD assessment test (CAT) criteria and modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) criteria. We investigated the determinants of symptom and risk groups and sought to identify a better CAT criterion. METHODS: This retrospective study included COPD patients seen between June 20, 2012, and December 5, 2012. The CAT score that can accurately predict an mMRC grade > or = 2 versus or = 15 predicted an mMRC grade > or = 2 more accurately than the current CAT score criterion. During follow-up, patients with CAT scores of 10 to 14 did not have a different risk of exacerbation versus those with CAT scores or = 15 is a better indicator for the 'more symptoms group' in the management of COPD patients.