Simulación in situ y “madre” simulada, nuevas estrategias pedagógicas en pediatría

The teaching-learning process in clinical disciplines includesamongst its challenges the acquisition of the student’s skills with thepatient. Opportunities for clinical practice have diminished. A smallernumber of pediatric visits in 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemicincreased this fact.Objective: to communicate the experience of in situ simulationand simulated mother carried out by the faculty of the PediatricEmergency Department of the Pereira Rossell Hospital Center,address to students in the Pediatrics Curricular Unit (School ofMedicine- UdelaR), in the case of an infant patient with respiratorypathology.Methods: Descriptive study. Simulated mother: faculty members/residents. Simulator: intermediate technology infant. Participants inthe scenario: 2 students. Location: DPE.PRHC. Period: SeptemberDecember 2020.Results: 327 students participated in the simulation, 255 answered the census. Usefulness of the simulation: 53.2% very useful /excellent, little or not at all useful 24.8%, no answer 22%. Credibility:acceptable 38%, very credible / excellent 27.5%, 12.5% little or not atall credible, 22% do not answer. Group participation in the debriefing64.5%, partial participation 11.4%, without debriefing 2.1%, no answer22%.Discussion: Of the 327 students who carried out the simulation atleast 24,8 % perceived it as little or not useful. The lack of previousinformation, the participation in the scenario of 2 students per groupand the little interaction in the debriefing in some groups could haveinfluenced.Conclusions: The communicated experience generated newteaching-learning opportunities. Methodological aspects that can beimproved were identified.