Dra. Salvo-Garrido, Lilian

Background: Clinical simulation is a strategy with broad support especially when face-to-face medical attention is difficult. In Psychiatry, the use and availability of simulation is lower than in other medical specialties, even for remote teaching. Aim: To report a pedagogical experience whose objective was to develop and implement the simulated patient technique as a teaching strategy for psychopathology and face-to-face Psychiatry for Psychiatry residents and remote for undergraduate medical students. Material and Methods: Six residents and 115 medical students participated in the activity. A descriptive qualitative-quantitative study was designed. Surveys were used to measure the quality and satisfaction of clinical simulation and simulation in psychopatho- logy and psychiatry. In addition, an opinion was requested about the activity. All residents and 104 students participated in the assessment. Results: The simulations were satisfactorily evaluated. The participants perceived that the pedagogical activity favored the development of generic competencies and specific skills for general Psychiatry. Conclusions: Simulation in Psychiatry does not replace face-to-face practical teaching, but it is a transitional and complementary method for clinical activities.

Background: Short-stay psychiatric hospitalization is a necessary resource to treat mental disorders with severe decompensation that cannot be resolved outpatiently. Knowledge of your results helps in clinical and administrative management. This study aims to evaluate the evolution of hospital indicators, sociodemographic and clinics characteristics of inpatients in a short-stay unit of psychiatry. Material and Methods: Longitudinal, retrospective, trend study was conducted in a universe of 4,563 egress of short-stay psychiatric unit of Chile, for 14 years, from 01/07/2005 to 30/06/2019. Hospital indicators, sociodemographic and clinical variables were evaluated. Results: during the period under study: The egress decreased, the average days were prolonged, the occupational index increased and the turnover rate decreased. A low number of patients, predominantly socioeconomic and psychosocial adversities, were frequently re-hospitalized. The greater the number of hospitalizations longest stay. Administrative and judicial hospitalizations were increased; the latter with the highest average stay. Hospitalization of males, adolescents, young people and older adults increased. Communes and primary care center with a greater population, proximity and access predominated. It remained frequency of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders and personality disorders, doubled affective disorders, tripled substance disorders, doubled dual pathology, and personality disorder was common in comorbidity with substance disorder and affective disorders Conclusions: strategies would be required with the Judicial System and Health Service, implement adolescent unity and addiction unit, and strengthen multidisciplinary care for older adults.