Evaluación de las habilidades comunicacionales de los internos rotativos de la carrera de medicina mediante la aplicación de la Guía Calgary Cambridge. Cuenca 2018

Abstract

Background: communicational skills are considered very important in the physician professional training; these skills are basic to establish a good doctor-patient relationship which will be helpful in the diagnosis and effective treatment.

Objective: to evaluate the communicational skills of the medical school interns that work at Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital.

Methodology: we present an observational and descriptive study on medicine students finishing the career. The data obtained was admitted to the program IBM SPSS Statistics 24.0. For the analysis it was used measures of central tendency, frequency and chi squared test and subsequently showed in tables and graphics.

Results: the mean age was 24,04 (± 1,154) years. The students belong to the three faculties of medicine in Cuenca. Most of participants where students of the University of Cuenca constituting 51% of the total and only 20% of them know the Calgary-Cambridge guide while just 19% chose to study Doctor-Patient Relationship as an elective subject. When we evaluated the communicational skills, we found that 90% of the students greet the patient, 89% show respect, whilst only 11% summarize the interview at the end of the session. The mean score of the students trained in medical communication was 13,79 (DS±2,323) whereas the score obtained by the ones who didn’t was 11,60 (DS±3,371) over 23.

Conclusions: there is a deficit in the communicational abilities of the interns, in the current investigation we established different reasons to explain why, among which we highlight the lack of education of medical communication