Abstract

BLANCO ASPIAZU, Miguel A. et al. Technical skills of the internal medicine resident. Educ Med Super [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.1. ISSN 0864-2141.

In order to explore the relation existing among the technical programmed procedures, the patterns of practical utilization and the criteria on which of them should be object of training for the internist during the residency, a group of residents, specialists and professors were surveyed in November 2002. The results of the study allowed to identify procedures with different approach degrees in the residency .There was a poor correspondence beetween the programmed procedures, the patterns of practical utilization and the criteria on the procedures in which the internist should be trained, excepting those cases of lumbar puncture, the reading of the electrocardiogram, paracentesis, pleurocentesis, fundus of the eye, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The rest of the mentioned procedures should be particularly analyzed.

Keywords : Clinical skills; residency; internal medicine; curriculum.

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