GROUP DYNAMICS: PRIMARY CARE IN URDERGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

INTRODUCTION and OBJECTIVES :: Professionals of San Sebastian a Basic Health Unit held meetings with groups of hypertensive and diabetic people every two months, in order to keep up with unit members and promote interaction between them. The objective is to encourage the autonomy and support the self-care group about their individual problems; Promote dynamic group activities aimed at greater interaction with the patient and increasing the uptake of activities in the UBS group; transmission of knowledge to patients and sharing the experiences of each; establish individualized goals; promote self individual written evaluation pursuing a self-reflection of patients and students, as for its operations. METHODS: This is an account of experience of two meetings between medical students and a group of hypertensive and diabetic. Both were planned based on active methodologies, and were evaluated by students and users. CONCLUSION: In the first activity, patients made a positive assessment, showing greater interest in group activities. The second activity patients already had some prior knowledge and had autonomy to set their own goals. The group evaluated the activities as satisfactory due mainly to the order in which they were held, as in the first moment there was the acquisition of knowledge by patients and then applying these to the individual reality. We concluded that the group activity is important, particularly with the use of active methodologies, as participants demonstrate greater integration and interest to the issues raised