The teaching-medical rounds: a tool in the training of professional skills

Introduction: teaching-educational process in the training of medical studies has implicit the elements to develop skills that allow the complement of the tasks of assistance and instruction, where there must be benefits for patients and for the student's learning. Objective: to demonstrate the importance of the teaching-medical rounds as a teaching tool. Development: the teaching-medical rounds are one of the main educational activities for the training of clinical aptitudes in the medical doctors, due to the dual dimensions of its objectives. The application of new technologies for the benefit of teaching that ensures the correct process of the exercise together with the problematic of these rounds that encourage the decision-making process, issuance of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic considerations, favoring the development of skills and expertise in communication and professionalism. It allows immediate feedback and encourages the expansion of individual criteria. Conclusions: currently the teaching-medical rounds have become into a transitory event, with purely administrative and welfare purposes, however allowing the student to develop clinical skills, immediate feedback, development of individual skills by means of criticism and self-criticism along with the encouragement for the formation of their own criteria