Monitoring is a learning space provided to students. Its way is to improve the professional training process and promote the improvement of teaching quality, creating conditions for the theoretical deepening and the development of skills related to the teaching activity of the monitor. The monitoring programs have to provide undergraduates with the possibility to optimize their academic potential, assisting them in professional training. Based on this principle, the result of this teaching method will be evaluated through questions focusing on anatomy, pathology and radiology themes within the perspective of the Morphofunctional Laboratory IV applied before and after the cognitive test. A better result is expected in the post-cognitive test questions due to the greater clarification of the content by the monitors.
Family planning is a people's right and a duty of teaching by health professionals ensured in the Brazilian Federal Constitution. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare the previous and acquired knowledge of students of the Fourth Semester of the Medicine Course at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) about family planning, through a pre-test before the module on this subject is given by the professors and monitors of the Medical Skills IV laboratory and a post-test (after the module has finished). Fifty students enrolled in the fourth semester of the Medicine course at UNIFOR participated in the study, who answered a standardized questionnaire (pre and post-test) after the agreement and signing the informed consent form. When comparing students' grades in the pre (5.02 ± 1.96) and post-tests (6.95 ± 1.58), a statistical difference was verified, with P <0.0001, with the post grades-test higher than in the pretest. There was no statistical difference between the scores of male and female medical students, both in the pre and post-tests. It's concluded that the knowledge acquired on family planning and contraception by students in the fourth semester of the medical course, at the Laboratory of Medical Skills at UNIFOR, made a lot of difference for the students' greater understanding on this subject. However, there is still a need for more time to approach the doctor in training on this topic, so that they can guide patients properly and with greater safety.
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