Confidence degree and skill development in undergraduate medical students using male urogenital training simulators.

Introduction: medical training should provide the future professional, in addition to theoretical knowledge, general and specific skills. In urology, urogenital training simulators have been presented as an ally in improving the degree of confidence and development of competencies for undergraduate medical students.

Methods: exploratory descriptive research with a quantitative approach, of an experimental nature, of the randomized controlled type with cross-sectional cut.

Health and Social Sciences working together in Community-Based Learning: Is this possible?

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. This is a case study of the experience of integration of health teaching and the community, which aims to bring medical students closer to the context in which health users are inserted.

Effectiveness of a serious game for medical education on insulin therapy: a pilot study.

Objective: We report the preliminary assessment of InsuOnline©, a serious game designed for medical education on insulin therapy.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a pilot study with 41 undergraduate medical students and Internal Medicine residents to assess the educational effectiveness of InsuOnline©, as compared to a traditional educational activity (lecture, cases discussion). Knowledge, skills and beliefs on insulin therapy were evaluated by a questionnaire applied before, immediately after, and 3 months after both interventions.