Background. Research and written communication skills are essential in undergraduate medical education, because medical doctors are often involved in research, and written communication is part of a medical doctor´s everyday routine. Academic medical programs that include training in clinical or epidemiological research require written communication aptitudes. Constructive feedback is a review technique commonly employed in medical education that involves the professor´s close surveillance of the student’s performance and a clear communication to respectfully explain to students their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of improvement, while ensuring a fair evaluation. Even though constructive feedback is common in clinical practice, it is rarely used in undergraduate medical training in scientific writing. Objective. To evaluate the impact of constructive feedback on the academi...

Introduction: In medical education, it is important to train students in scientific writing and research methods, relevant for progress of health sciences. The curriculum for the undergraduate program of medical education at the Marista University of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, includes the subject of research methodology in the sixth semester, and currently involves the generation of skills for written communication. In this article, we present the results obtained in the academic program of the research methods course, in which the students develop a draft of an academic article and subsequently an original article consisting of a clinical case report or a review article. Methods: Descriptive, observational study obtained from a survey applied to the students. Additionally, we discuss on the academic products derived from the course that were submitted for publication, six months after th...

Introduction. The use of human patient simulators is an effective strategy in the teaching of clinical procedures. However, there is little information to help teachers improve their teaching strategies, allowing them to improve learning experiences according to the age or sex of students who use this type of simulation. Objectives. To identify if there are differences by sex or age in association with the skills of the students of the first semester of medicine for phlebotomy. Design. Quasiexperimental. Places. Medical Simulation Centre Montagne of the Marista University of Merida. Participants. First semester medical students. Interventions. Educational intervention of the phlebotomy process with sample taking, and using high fidelity simulators. For the analysis, sociodemographic variables were associated with the performance of the students. Main result measures. The practical and th...