Introduction:

the students’ medical duty is a training scenary where students began to interact with patients and diseases form the first years of the medical studies.

Objective:

to characterize the students’ medical duty in the first years of medical studies.

Materials and methods:

a cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study was carried out in the on-call service of the University Policlinic “Pedro Borras Astorga” during 2016. The universe of study was formed by 21 tutors and 145 students from the first year of the Medicine studies who took part in the institutional medical duty.

Results:

the attended patients were women in most of the cases, 69,6 %, aged 60 and more years with 29,6 %. The students’ characteristics were: female sex, 65,5 %, not living in student dorms, 73,8 %. Among tutors, women predominated with 61,9 %, and the teaching category of Assistant, with 80,9 %; the tutorship time was more or equal 5 years, with 76,2 %. With respect to skills evaluation on duty, most of the students got marks of 5, mainly when registering the patients’ personal information with 122 students. Among the indicators related to that activity were higher the indication of Traditional and Natural Medicine for 1 130, and electrocardiography studies for 1013.

Conclusions:

medical duty beginning in the first year of medical studies is very important for the comprehensive training of the students, also in the conception of professional skills and values.

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