CANCINO MARENTES, Martha Edith; FERNANDEZ ARGUELLES, Rogelio Alberto    ARBESU MICHELENA, María Antonieta. Learning acquired by medical students during their internship in three hospitals in Nayarit, Mexico. []. , 25, 3, pp.242-254. ISSN 0864-2141.

A comparative study of the learning of clinical skills was carried out in Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit in Mexico. The participating students, who developed their undergraduate internship in three different hospitals of the national health care system of that country, answered a questionnaire including open and semi-close questions. The non-parametric analysis compared the groups whereas the discriminating analysis identified the most useful variables, differentiated the institutions with respect to the environment and revealed the opinions of the medical students about the undergraduate internship period. Some differences were noted at least in one of the comparisons among the institutions; the majority of students from the three institutions perceived that their tutors´willingness to teach them or to allow them participate in the academic activities was not good in general, so it is the head of education who is in charge of coordinating the academic sessions. The most influential variables in the discriminatory analysis were the role of the coordinator and the quality of the academic activities, the sleeping hours and the size of the groups of interns assigned to the medical calls. Significant rise of the clinical skill learning was observed in the three institutions when comparing the results from the beginning to the end of the internship period, being the level of learning higher in the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS).

: Curricular evaluation; medical education; pregraduate internship.

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