Introduction:

To evaluate the cognitive and procedural development of the student in the execution of the clinical skills, is the objective of the clinical Propaedeutics. The majority of students have difficulty in executing these skills, inadequacies that are related to the infrequency that are evaluated in practice and the didactic preparation of the teaching assistants to perform a systematic evaluation.

Objective:

To deepen the study of evaluation as a process, based on the updated analysis of the elements that comprise it.

Methods:

A review was made of academic documents that guide teaching in clinical Propaedeutics and Internet search using Google academic with the following keywords and their combinations: evaluation, evaluation of learning, clinical skills, medical training, didactic and clinical propaedeutics.

Development:

Evaluation as a process is manifested in the teaching, accompanies it, puts itself at the service of it and validates the professional training that is desired. To achieve the development of clinical skills in students, lecturers must own themselves knowledge and teaching tools that allow them to execute an objective, coherent, systematic, participatory and developing evaluation process, under the pedagogical conditions in which the physician's training takes place.

Conclusions:

To achieve quality in the evaluation, demand for the didactic preparation of the lecturers in health care, so that from an integrating conception they can use it in their educational and regulatory training functions of the teaching process.

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