Analysis of the Perception of Academics about Emergency and Emergency Medical Education

Abstract: Introduction: Urgency and emergency service involves risk situations that require immediate intervention to increase the patient’s chances of survival. The teaching of this discipline during undergraduate medical school has not been effective and the students show deficient training; thus, carrying out an evaluation aiming to know the reality about this formative process becomes important. Objectives: to evaluate the knowledge and personal satisfaction of the undergraduate medical students attending internship regarding the discipline of Urgency and Emergency, in private medical schools in the North of Minas Gerais. Method: transversal, quantitative, descriptive study, which applied 185 questionnaires addressing demographic data; knowledge of the Urgency and Emergency care policy applied to SAMU; knowledge of the epidemiology of pre-hospital care at SAMU, assessment and conduct during care; and perception of UE education. The population consisted of medical students, from the 8th to the 12th periods of medical school, divided into two groups in relation to the internship in UE. The statistical analysis was performed using Pearson’s Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test, with significance set at p