Psychomotor skills in anesthesia: reports of students in two curricula

• Autor(a) principal: Arenson-Pandikow, Helena Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Bordin, Ronaldo, C. Medeiros, Sérgio Augusto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Clinical and Biomedical Research
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/125266
• topic: Ensino médico; avaliação médica; habilidades; graduação em medicina; Medical education; medical evaluation; skills; undergraduate medical course

OBJECTIVE: Since 1990, the Evaluation Program for Undergraduate Medical Teachingat Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul has been conducting a systematic survey to establish the opportunities granted to students to develop psychomotor skills inseveral areas. For this purpose, the students answer questionnaires at the beginningand at the end of clinical rotating internships. The aim of the present work was toassess the reports of students concerning the development of such skills during theanesthesia internship before and after a curriculum reform.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We documented 18 basic tasks performed by studentsduring the anesthesia internship. We compared the answers of 7th semester trainees(1991, old curriculum) with the answers of 10th semester trainees (1996, new curriculum).The questionnaires were applied on the first and on the last day of internship.RESULTS: Out of 18 tasks, 13 were not statistically different between the groups; in 4(blood loss estimation, installation of IVs, intravenous administration of fluids, andtransportation of unconscious patients), the old curriculum group reported significantlyhigher exposure prior to the internship; in one skill the reference to previous exposureto these tasks was higher in the new curriculum.CONCLUSIONS: The present results suggest that the perception of students concerningtheir previous experience with the psychomotor skills required for the tasks under analysistended to make them overestimate their technical skills. In 10th semester new curriculumstudents, this attitude changed significantly: students referred less to previousexperience, and seemed more motivated to develop activities that were specificallyrelated to anesthesia during the internship.