Percepción del aprendizaje de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Odontología de la Universidad Santo Tomás sobre el uso de los ambientes simulados

Abstract

Introduction: Clinical simulation is an instrument used with the main objective of being able to create practice scenarios aimed at knowing what was later evidenced in clinical experience. Objective: To determine the perception of learning of the students of the School of Dentistry from the sixth to the ninth semester of the Santo Tomás University on the use of simulated environments. Materials and methods: a type of descriptive cross-sectional study is used, with a sample of 185 students from the sixth to the ninth semester. In this study, sociodemographic variables will be taken into account: age, sex, semester in progress, marital status, place of origin and residence, perception variables will also be evaluated to answer the research question posed, in the qualitative variables the percentages and frequencies and the quantitative averages and standard deviations, in addition, resolution 8430 of 1993 and the data protection law were taken into account where data collection was carried out through Google forms. Results: the participants had a median of 21 years of age, the majority are from the sixth semester, where the majority reside in Floridablanca, the dental students based on their passage or experience through the phantoms or simulator according to the questions it was evidenced that acquired skills in practice with the simulator or phantoms where it was highlighted that the students perceived that they did acquire the skills and handling of materials with 82.70%, in addition it was also possible to show that the students did not acquire ergonomics with 83.24%, the management of indirect vision is evidenced with no 71.35%. Conclusions: It was possible to show that the sixth to ninth semester students of the Faculty of Dentistry perceived several difficulties when facing the clinic with real patients, such as ergonomics, biosafety practices and as such in the use of simulated environments in achieving Skills for clinical performance and it was obtained in a positive way that skill and handling of materials, good time management, management of indirect vision were acquired.