The clinical reasoning through the basic cycle, an option for the integration of the medical sciences

Abstract

Background: the clinical reasoning facilitates the integration of knowledge in the formation of health professionals to have an adequate performance in the future profession. EDUMECENTRO 2015;7(1):18-30 ISSN 2077-2874 RNPS 2234 Santa Clara ene.-mar. http://www.revedumecentro.sld.cu 20 Objective: to analyze the general opinion of the students about the inclusion of clinical cases in the Physiology subject to propitiate a clinical reasoning through the biomedical basic sciences. Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in Tamaulipas Autonomous University. The universe comprised the students who were in the third semester of the career from January to May 2013. 60 students who were studying the Physiology subject in this period were included in a non-random consecutive sampling. Theoretical methods were used: Analysis-Synthesis, induction-deduction. Empirical methods: a questionnaire was applied to the students. Results: the students gave satisfactory opinions about the inclusion and discussion of clinical cases in the basic area of the Medicine career. Most of the students stated that the application of the clinical reasoning to the basic knowledge of the career benefits the teachinglearning process. The students regarded as very important the role of the tutors Conclusions: the inclusion of clinical cases in the subjects of the basic sciences allows to achieve the integration of its contents with the clinical sciences, since early stages of the career, it provides advantages to set the bases for a more effective transference and a better development of the clinical reasoning. MeSH: Clinical medicine, problem-based learning, biological science disciplines. _____________________________________________________