[Psychiatric assessment skills in physical and rehabilitation medicine residents].
OBJECTIVE
To value the psychiatric clinical aptitude (CA) in physical medicine and rehabilitation residents (PMR).


METHODS
An instrument of evaluation of the psychiatric clinical aptitude was built, with five summarized real clinical cases, with 120 items to respond, 60 with true answer and 60 with false. The instrument was validated by experts, three psychiatrists and two specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation that coincided completely in 44 % of the answers and in 56 % four of the five experts. It was applied to all medical residents of this specialty (n = 16), the internal consistency of the instrument was measured by the test of Kuder-Richardson (formula 20) showing a coefficient of 0.85, the random response was calculated by the Pérez Padilla-Viniegra test, being of 20 (17 %). Comparisons among the groups with U of Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis were made.


RESULTS
Degrade of CA in the whole sample was low and there were differences statistically significant in favor of the third year residents.


CONCLUSIONS
The educational strategies in the psychiatry area do not enhance the development of the CA in this specialty.
Aguirre-Velázquez
Ricardo Mario
RM
Hospital General de Zona con Unidad de Medicina Familiar 2, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. raguirre_1999@yahoo.com
Benavides-Caballero
Teresa de J
Tde J
Cobos-Aguilar
Héctor
H
D002983:Clinical Competence; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010810:Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine / Q000193:education*; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires