Evaluación del rendimiento educacional mediante la utilización de diferentes opciones metodológicas aplicadas a estudiantes de medicina, en el área de la hipertensión arterial / Assessment of educational performance of different teaching methodologies applied to medical students

ABSTRACT

Background: Modernization of medical teaching includes the use of new teaching methodologies and among these, computer assisted tutorials. Previous experience has shown that this type of methodology is associated with better student performances. Aim: To assess the cognitive performance of fourth year medical students using different teaching methodologies. Material and methods: During the hypertension course, medical students were allowed to choose to receive a printed booklet (group A), to receive the booklet and attend lectures (group B), to receive the booklet and use a multimedial educational program (group C) and to use all three methodologies (group D). Cognitive performance was evaluated with a multiple choice test scored from 0 to 100. Results: The mean scores obtained by students were 84.5 in group A, 82.4 in group B. 88.9 in group C and 84.4 in group D. This overall score of 83.6 in hypertension was significantly better than the mean score of 72.5 obtained in the cardiology test. Conclusions: Allowing students to choose the most suitable method to learn according to their personal preferences, results in a better cognitive performance