Training of assistants students in clinical specialties through comprehensive preconception risk consultations

Abstract

Introduction: The consultations of couples under medical supervision within the preconception risk category constitute valid way for the exercise of clinical, teaching, and research skills by assistants students in clinical specialties, but the potential offered by these consultations is not always well utilized.

Objective: To evaluate the training process of clinicals assistants students who participate in the comprehensive evaluation consultations of couples with preconception risk.

Methods: An observational, descriptive and prospective study was carried out in 30 assistants student belonging to the teaching polyclinics of the Antonio Maceo Grajales Health District 3, in Santiago de Cuba, during the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 courses.

Results: Several problems were identified in the training process of clinical assistant students, where they considered the training provided by their tutor professors insufficient. Furthermore, 90 % of them alleged a lack of interest in the training. Meanwhile, the women and/or couples surveyed and consulted did not report any differences between the assistant students and other students in relation to cognitive performance and professional values, evaluating them as deficient for their assistant student category.

Conclusions: Although in the comprehensive evaluation consultations of couples with preconception risk, as a form of teaching organization, the development of the axiological-professional capacity of the clinical assistant student is conditioned, the legitimation of the developmental pedagogical training approach, necessary in the training process of the clinical assistant student, from the pre-professional medical practice, is not always used satisfactorily.