Dávila-Cervantes A

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 178-181
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ABSTRACT

The simulation in the health area includes a variety of educational techniques used to supplement the acquisition of skills and abilities required by medical students in both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This field of education has made rapid growth in clinical education programs, and involved benefits have been described extensively in the medical literature, where it takes particular significance when the concept of “afety for the patient” is introduced as one of the fundamental aspects to be considered: When we have the responsibility of training young doctors and make them competent in their field of work? At the Centro de Enseñanza y Certificación de Aptitudes Médicas (CECAM, Spanish acronym of “Medical Skill Education and Certification Center”), the student of the UNAM Faculty of Medicine acquires the skills necessary for professional practice in a controlled environment that provides greater opportunities for educational intervention before he/she faces with real patients. The purpose of this article is to emphasize the effectiveness of simulation as a tool in teaching medical knowledge and skills, and present the experience of major simulation center in Latin America: the CECAM.

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