El tiempo de los estudiantes de medicina en las rotaciones clínicas y el sistema de créditos

Translated title of the contribution: Medical Student's Use of Time during Clinical Clerkships and the Credits Based System

Andrés Isaza Restrepo, Isabel Pérez-Olmos, Luis Eduardo Martínez, Alejandro Velásquez, Mario Andrés Mercado

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Abstract

Introduction: Comprehensive undergraduate education in clinical sciences is grounded on activities developed during clerkships. To implement the credits system we must know how these experiences take place. Objectives: to describe how students spend time in clerkships, how they assess the educative value of activities and the enjoyment it provides. Method: We distributed a form to a random clustered sample of a 100 students coursing clinical sciences, designed to record the time spent, and to assess the educative value and the grade of enjoyment of the activities in clerkship during a week. Data were registered and analyzed on Excel® 98 and SPSS. Results: mean time spent by students in clerkship activities on a day were 10.8 hours. Of those, 7.3 hours (69%) were spent in formal education activities. Patient care activities with teachers occupied the major proportion of time (15.4%). Of the teaching and learning activities in a week, 28 hours (56%) were spent in patient care activities and 22.4 hours (44.5%) were used in independent academic work. The time spent in teaching and learning activities correspond to 19 credits of a semester of 18 weeks. The activities assessed as having the major educational value were homework activities (4.6) and formal education activities (4.5). The graded as most enjoyable were extracurricular activities, formal educational activities and independent academic work. Conclusion: our students spend more time in activities with patients than the reported in literature. The attending workload of our students is greater than the one reported in similar studies.
Translated title of the contributionMedical Student's Use of Time during Clinical Clerkships and the Credits Based System
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)136-146
Number of pages10
JournalRevista Ciencias de la Salud
Volume4
StatePublished - Oct 1 2006

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