Model of computerized academic medical clinic.
In the traditional medical graduation course, the student receives a great amount of information while training at the Outpatient Care; the student assumes the physician's role, collecting all the information regarding the patient's clinical history and learns to get along with patients as well. During the attendance process, several factors interfere in the academic teaching, such as limitations of room numbers, amount of patients, difficulties in obtaining medical records, paper illegibility, among other problems. Due to those difficulties, the Model of Computerized Academic Health Clinic, implies in a new learning paradigm in the medical practice, rethinking the traditional process of learning-attendance, where the old model, in which attendance is restricted to a place, is extended in an open atmosphere of shared knowledge, rich of computer resources. The pilot project was implanted in the Pediatrics General Health Clinic of UNIFESP/EPM. It allows that the fifth-year medical students, residents, trainees and tutors use computerized clinics, connected with the academic net of UNIFESP and to the Internet. All the computing and information resources settled at the Outpatient Care improved the organization of its services, increased the medical students' curiosity, improved their participation in learning through interactive programs and clinical attendance.