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?