Keywords: Medicine Undergraduate Education. Evaluation. Medical Education. Otorhinolaringology

Abstract: The present study gives continuity to the assessment of medical undergraduate courses undertaken by the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). On this issue we analyse the technical skills learned during the Otorrinolaringology Rotatory Profiram (ORL), in the 9211 semestrr of the discipline Introduction to Medical Practice. Questionaires listing the 18 skills, considered basic in the ORL ares for the general practitioner graduation, were applied to the students before they started the course and immediately after its termination. The skills were assembled into four groups of clinical examination: Ear, Nose, Mouth and Neck and Larynx. The results demonstrate that only otoscopy and audiometry provided some experience to more than 80% of the class. "Full profit" namedas the oportunity trainee to assist orperform - atleast once - one full set of skills could only be achieved by half of the students in one grupp: nose examination. Less than 5% of the class did manage the other three sets of skills.