Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Evaluation of clinical competence in Catalonia

​Evaluation of clinical competence in Catalonia

Albert Oriol Bosch


Ramón Descarrega


 Enric Macarulla


 Carles Blay


 Rosa Maria Ojeda


Evaluation of clinical competence in Catalonia

In Catalonia

Anglo-Saxon countries have been using practices with simulated patients on a regular basis for decades. They arrived in Catalonia just over twenty years ago, thanks to the now-defunct Institute of Health Studies and the thinking minds that presided over the organization at the time. The arrival of simulation led to a rediscovery of the study of medicine in Catalonia and Spain. A shake-up of the evaluative bases of the profession that went beyond the use of simulated patients in the faculties. How was this road? Who led it?