Retention of knowledge about basic cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation in medical students. Cienfuegos (2017-2018)

Retention of knowledge about basic cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation in medical students. Cienfuegos (2017-2018)

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Introduction: knowledge retention at medium and long term in cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation is a problem in education systems worldwide.Objective: to determine the level of knowledge retention about basic cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation in medical students.Method: prospective longitudinal research; developed at the University of Medical Sciences Cienfuegos.

An exam was applied to 377 first year medical students about cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation after a 20 hour theoretical-practical course in December 2017.A year later, to a sample of 185 ( simple random, level of confidence 95% and error margin of 5%) the same exam is repeated.Global and particular results are compared according to the ckf snafu 2.0 initial marking.

Results: In the first exam(2017) the general number of students who passed was 80.4%, from it with a degree of quality (good and excellent) 50.66%.

A year later, these figures decreased to 46.5 and 14.1 % respectively.

The percentages of ratings was also qualitatively lower in 2018 for each group than those obtained in 2017.The worsts ( fair and poor) in 2018 are not related to the rating obtained in 2017.The evaluation of the teaching process to the students and teachers was good.

Conclusion: the level of knowledge retention about Basic cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation at a year time is low, independently to the ratings obtained in 2017.The quality of the teaching process was kiara sky allure adequate and seems not to influence these results.