MEDEROS CURBELO, Orestes Noel; HERNANDEZ ARAGONES, José Carlos; ROMERO DIAZ, Carlos    CASTILLO AGUILERA, Miguel Ángel. Meeting for exchange of knowledge with the use of simulators. []. , 26, 1, pp. 53-60. ISSN 0864-2141.

The meeting for exchange of knowledge was introduced in the higher medical education after the First National Meeting of Medical Sciences students. The use of this method is regulated by Instruction no. 12 of 1988 issued by the Educational Division of the Ministry of Public Health that was in charge of devising it. Objective: to encourage the participation of all the students in a fraternal competition and broader knowledge of the contents of several subjects in the career. Methods: since the 2007-2008 academic course, this type of meetings has been taking place in the 8^th week of each rotation around the surgery setting, in which the residents act as simulators. Results: there was observed an improvement of academic results of students in practical tests. The use of simulators is a latest topic in higher medical education; the use of residents to act as problem-based situation simulators, particularly in surgical acute abdomen, allows integrating undergraduate and graduate learning processes in a unique activity in addition to approaching the students to the active faculty. Conclusions: the Integrating Meeting for Exchange of Knowledge is an important event for the academic process since it makes it possible to develop even more the skills and pieces of knowledge acquired by the students;additionally, the resident plays a fundamental role in acting as problem situation simulator, the fulfillment of educational and instructional objectives is reinforced and this meeting serves as a predictive factor of the final results in the rotation.

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