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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.

Palabras clave : clinical method; knowledge; medicine students.

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