title: [Assessment of educational performance of different teaching methodologies applied to medical students in the area of arterial hypertension].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Modernization of medical teaching includes the use of new teaching methodologies and among these, computer assisted tutorials. Previous experience has shown that this type of methodology is associated with better student performances.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the cognitive performance of fourth year medical students using different teaching methodologies.
  
  
  METHODS
  During the hypertension course, medical students were allowed to choose to receive a printed booklet (group A), to receive the booklet and attend lectures (group B), to receive the booklet and use a multimedial educational program (group C) and to use all three methodologies (group D). Cognitive performance was evaluated with a multiple choice test scored from 0 to 100.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean scores obtained by students were 84.5 in group A, 82.4 in group B, 88.9 in group C and 84.4 in group D. This overall score of 83.6 in hypertension was significantly better than the mean score of 72.5 obtained in the cardiology test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Allowing students to choose the most suitable method to learn according to their personal preferences, results in a better cognitive performance.
authors.affiliation: Oficina de Educación Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Concepción. efasce@udec.cl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fasce
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ibáñez
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wagemann
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D013664:Teaching Materials
vernacular_title: Evaluación del rendimiento educacional mediante la utilización de diferentes opciones metodológicas aplicadas a estudiantes de medicina, en el área de la hipertensión arterial.