Simulação clínica na residência médica de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia: uma análise no município de São Paulo

INTRODUCTION: A new teaching and learning process has been experienced in medical education. In the past, it was based on the usage of traditional methodologies and, in recent years, on a more contemporary model, based on competencies. Within this context, the adoption of methods that encourage effective student participation is being appreciated. They are defined as active methodologies and one of them is the simulation method. OBJECTIVE: this study investigated the use of Simulation in Internal Medical Residency Programs (IMRP) in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) and, more specifically, it comprehended the role attributed by the supervisors to Clinical Simulation (CS) in the training of residents in Gynecology and Obstetrics in the city of São Paulo (SP); it analyzed the use of Clinical Simulation as a teaching strategy in the training of the tocogynecologist during the Medical Residency; it mapped what could facilitate or hinder the insertion of the Clinical Simulation to the Internal Medical Residency Programs of Obstetrics and Gynecology; it also presented suggestions for improving the use of this type of simulation in these programs. METHODOLOGY: for the development of this study was adopted a qualitative, cross-sectional, exploratory, and descriptive approach. Partially structured interviews were conducted with ten supervisors from the Medical Residency Programs of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the city of São Paulo. The analysis of the interviews was carried out by themes and started from three core concepts: the role of simulation in the Medical Residency Programs of Obstetrics and Gynecology; the context in which the simulations were carried out in these programs; the factors that facilitate and/or hinder the insertion of simulation in programs suggestible to the use of Clinical Simulation. RESULT AND DISCUSSION: regarding the role of simulation in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Residency Programs, in the city of SP, the following categories emerged: a complementary tool for the teaching and ...