Ward rounds in the subjects clinical propedeutics and internal medicine: similar or different?

In this article it is stated the convenience of combining the conventional ward round with an additional and independent group activity with third year students of the Medical major; this would facilitate the achievement of formative objectives with these abilities, at least during the first weeks of the subject clinical propedeutics and medical semiology. An analysis of some particularities is made which differentiates the ward round in the subjects clinical propedeutics and internal medicine.; differences determined by the level of training sense-perceptive abilities with which students start in both subjects and determinant at the same time of adequacies in professional performance.