Hernández TCR, Mainegra FD, Pérez MA, Catalá MT, Toledo TZ

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: an adequate teaching of communication favors the development and enriches the training of physicians. The training of oral professional communication in medical students from Pinar del Río is analyzed.
Objective: to determine the state of professional oral communication skills in medical students from Pinar del Río University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: theoretical, empirical and statistical methods along with dialectical-materialist approaches were applied, based on professional communicative situations, the target group included 970 students from the second and third academic-years, and an intentional sample of 385 students.
Results: 78.4% of executives consider communication problems result in the lack of theoretical knowledge, 36% of professors recognize the need to improve their communication skills in the training of professionals, 100% of students need to perfect this process in accordance with the medical professional modes of action, and 91% accept that oral communication is evaluated considering doctor-patient relationship.
Discussion: communication as an articulating transverse axis is addressed as an isolated activity in the syllabus and briefly treated in the subject of Medical Psychology. The communicative activity is related to the education at work, and it is not conceived in the evaluative process of the subjects and disciplines.
Conclusions: it is intended to expand the existing knowledge of oral professional communication and comprehensive culture of the medical student.