Group activities with medical students represent a key teaching technique, offering them a space for critical reflection on the development of their professional role. Thus, as a theoretical reference for group work, we highlight educational sociodrama, a line of action-based research in Educational Psychology. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of reflective group activities with sociodrama as the reference, developed with medical students in a public university. Ten previously selected second-year to fourth-year students participated. The activities were held in nine weekly meetings and concluded with a role-playing exercise, the theme of which was enrollment in medical school. The students rated the exercise positively, highlighting the benefits of sharing their difficulties in medical training with the group, integration of students from different classes, fostering positive links between the members, the experience of putting oneself in another's place through role-playing, and opportunity for more critical reflection on the development of their professional role.
Students, Medical; Role-Playing; Education, Medical
