title: The resident as teacher: Medical students' perception in a Spanish university.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Residents play an important but scanty assessed role in medical students teaching. The aim of this study was to assess the perception of medical students about residents' teaching activity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Autofilled survey provided to medical students of the University of Alcalá (Spain) in the final year in their school of medicine. Student opinion about care and teaching abilities of residents and physicians was evaluated using a 5-point Likert scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  104 surveys were collected. A 69,9% of students consider that as much as 50% of their knowledge came from rounds with residents. Students believe that resident teaching lacks enough academical acknowledgment (94.2%); they estimate necessary to acquire teaching skills during residency (82,7%), and they would like to provide tutoring other medical students (88,5%). Students rated residents better than physicians on relational and motivational abilities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a positive view about resident as a teacher among medical students, which suggests the need to improve the resident's teaching skills.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España. Electronic address: david.bernal@salud.madrid.org.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bernal Bello
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, España; Departamento de Medicina y Especialidades Médicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García de Tena
authors.affiliation: Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud Las Margaritas, Getafe, Madrid, España; Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitario Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jaenes Barrios
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, España; Departamento de Medicina y Especialidades Médicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martínez Lasheras
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, España; Departamento de Medicina y Especialidades Médicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de Arriba de la Fuente
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, España; Departamento de Medicina y Especialidades Médicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Zapata
keywords: Educación Médica; Estudiantes de Medicina; Facultades de Medicina; Grado; Graduate; Hospital medical staff; Medical education; Medical schools; Medical students; Personal plantillas médicas hospitalarias; Pregrado; Residence and internship; Residencia e Internado; Undergraduate