ABSTRACT
Nowadays, the tendency of the teaching-learning processes spins around strategies focused on the students, acknowledging them as persons that participate actively in their professional and personal training. In this sense, the strategy of clinic simulation by simulated users transforms into a method of didactic teaching that allows the achievement of significant learning on a short- and long-term basis of professional competences for the individual. The intent that pursues this study is to establish the perception the university students have concerning the clinical simulation as a learning strategy for the acquisition of transversal competences. Methodologically, this study is framed under a quantitative approach, not experimental design, of descriptive type and temporal transversality. The sample is not probabilistic, comprise of thirteen students of the fifth grade of the Occupational Therapy career with a M=24 years and DT = 1,000. The results show, that in the three dimensions studied: (1) strategies of clinical simulation as a method of teaching, (2) strategies of clinical simulation as the acquisition of competences, and (3) strategies of clinical simulation with the interaction of persons in the professional internship, the students achieve high percentages of positive perceptions. It is concluded that the university students acknowledge a positive impact of the clinical simulated internship as an efficient tool in their training and learning processes of transversal competences.
Keywords:
Education, Higher; Simulation Technique; Occupational Therapy; Professional Training; Health Human Resource Training