ESTÁGIO URGÊNCIA E EMERGÊNCIA: PROJETO INTEGRADO DE AVALIAÇÃO DO ENSINO MÉDICO

Abstract: Urgency and Emergency Rotatory Program: Integrated Project for Undergraduate Medical Evaluation This work describes the opportunities for undergraduate medical students in their 11th semester to acquire basic skills within one month of training at an emergency hospital in Porto Alegre. Questionnaries containing a list of technical skills asked the students both on arrival and immediately after termination of the training programme whether they considered themselves capable to perform those tasks. For the analysis the skills were grouped according to the training area: clinical, politrauma, stitching, traumatology and hemotherapy. Out of 32 skills, 23 showed a significant improvement in the percentage of respondents who considered themselves competent after the training period. As far as performance opportunities, there were no significant changes for 15 of the skills studied. These results suggest that while the trainees might have the "cognitive aptitude" this does not mean they had the opportunity to perform it.