Introduction:

Currently, clinical simulation has changed the teaching of medicine in favor of the experiential, meaningful based learning of doctors in training, that is why the objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of professionalism and communication in a scenario of clinical simulation with a standardized patient for 5th grade students of the degree of medical surgeon of the UNAM School of Medicine.

Methods:

It is an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study. A sample n = 387 (45.6% of the total) was obtained from fifth year students of the UNAM medical degree. A clinical simulation scenario with standardized patients was used, as well as a rubric to evaluate professionalism and communication. The statistical calculation was performed with the analysis of percentages by item and category.

Results:

The database and statistical analysis of the 387 students was made with Excel, finding that the competence of professionalism is excellent in 62%, good in 33% and deficient in 5% of the population, while in the competence of communication is excellent in 60%, good in 37% and deficient in 3%.

Discussions:

It is demonstrated that there is social justice, respect and confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship, but there is a lack at the time of maintaining the patient’s autonomy, empathy and compassion principle. It is possible to evaluate the performance of professionalism and communication through clinical simulation.

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