Aim:

To describe the oral presentation of a clinical case in a meeting and medical resident communication performance.

Subjects and methods:

Prospective observational study descriptive longitudinal, cross-sectional analysis in different times of clinical cases oral presentation. Ten general surgery resident physicians take part in his 4th year of residence at a university hospital between March 30, 2016 and September 30, 2017. The clinical case was showed in the weekly general meeting of the General Surgery service with oral presentation exclusively two clinical cases were made. Evaluation of medical residents was based on the qualification of the oral presentation of the clinical case through 6 criteria and whose quality of each item check ranged between 1 (poor) and 10 (excellent). There was only one evaluator.

Results:

From 76 presentations, it is observed that the note obtained by medical residents average oral presentations of clinical cases rating was 8.2, with clear signs of improved performance by presenting more clinical cases. Observed notes created a ranking of the performance of medical residents. Reliability as an instrument of value was acceptable (0.76).

Conclusion:

The oral presentation of a clinical case for surgery medical resident in a weekly meeting as its performance assessment tool has a high degree of validity and reliability due to objectively and effective criteria evaluation pre-established. More oral presentations, more experience and better performance.

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