Correlación entre la práctica docente y rendimiento académico en un grupo de estudiantes de medicina Correlation between teaching practice and academic performance in a group of medical students

Objective: To determine the correlation of the results of a measurement tool that assesses the teaching practice (TATP), with those observed in academic performance in basic sciences in the students of the medical career. Material and Methods: We performed an observational, prospective and cross-sectional study in a group of 89 students attending to the 5th semester in medical career at the time of the study. The independent variable was the teaching practice and the dependent one, the academic performance of students in the areas of Microbiology and Pharmacology, that are taken in the third semester as well as Pathology and Propaedeutics I, that are taken in the fourth semester. For the statistical analysis was used descriptive statistics and the Spearman correlation coefficient. Results: Proffessors of Pharmacology and Propaedeutics were better assessed by the perception of students. Moreover the results for teacher of Pathology, show greater variability. (SD: 18.9). Importantly, the overall median of the measurement result of teaching among the teachers who taught these four subjects, was high (90.8) on a scale of 0 to 100. Conclusions: According to these results, no correlation was found between the result of the instruments to measure teaching practice and student academic performance in any of the four subjects in the study.