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REYES SANAME, Félix Andrés et al. Clinical Method: a diagnosis tool with difficulties in students of third year of the medicine career. ccm [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp. 748-763. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: the clinical method is a systematized and scientific practice; the doctor has ever used it up to nowadays. This method is of high importance, since it denotes a system of logical, well-ordered  and scientific thought to make a diagnosis and give the treatment. Objective: to check the mastery and application of the clinical method of the students of third year of the career of Medicine in Moa, in the Propaedeutic cycle in 2015-2016 school year. Method: an observational descriptive study was carried out, with a sample of 52 students who represented the 100% of the population. The students´ results achieved in the practical exams of the Propaedeutic subject were considered.   Results: insufficient results were obtained in the exam in 36.5% of the students, with an index of quality of 42.4%, 65.3% presented difficulties in the medical interview, 57.6% in the physical exam and. The interrelation among medical interview, physical exam, syndromological summary and complementary were assessed as medium by 50.0% of the professors,  considering that the place where the exams were developed had good privacy in 85.7%, hygiene in 78.5% and illumination in 71.4%. Conclusions: the study demonstrated that there were difficulties in the students of third year of the medicine career, to develop abilities that show knowledge and use of the clinical method.

Palavras-chave : clinical method; knowledge; medicine students.

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