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    Comparative analysis of the degree of acquisition of skillsin Advanced Life Support and Immediate Life Support
    (Centro de Estudios en Educación Médica de la Universidad de Murcia (CeuEM) y Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de publicaciones, 2021) Cárdenas Cruz, Antonio; Peregrina Caño, Eva; Cárdenas Cruz, Dolores; Santiago Suárez, Isabel; Martín Piedra, Miguel Ángel; Parrilla Ruiz, Francisco Manuel
    Cardiac arrest (CA) is a major public health problem in developed countries.According to the Spanish Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Council, in Spain there arearound thirty thousand deaths a year and about twenty thousand resuscitation attempts,and yet until very recently medical students did not receive formal training in AdvancedLife Support (ALS). With the introduction in 2018 of a new subject, we faced the problemthat it was not established what type of Life Support was appropriate for our students. Asa result, the aim of this study is to analyze in a comparative way the degree of acquisitionof competences in ALS and Immediate Life Support (ILS) and their temporal evolution by he students of fifth and sixth year (Medicine Degree) of the University of Granada (UGR).To achieve that aim, we obtained the data in an initial evaluation to the medical studentswho enrolled the optional subject of Advanced Life Support in the Faculty of Medicine(UGR), during the months of October and November (2019). This evaluation was carriedout by external evaluators and was based on the ERC 2015 guidelines. Months later, areassessment that was carried out during the months of February and March 2020 to thesame sample of students gave us the data for the comparison. Data showed that the degreeof acquisition of competencies related to the ILS exceeds the level of acquisition of thecompetences included within the ALS, and that the effect of the Oblivion Curve for thecompetences included in the ILS is lower than those included in the ALS. We couldconclude that the competences that are integrated within the ILS present a higher level ofacquisition and a lesser effect on the forgetting curve, so they should be the ones becomingpart of the curricular content of the UGR Medical Degree.