Evitando la neurofobia en los estudiantes de medicina

Abstract

Medical students usually perceive neurosciences as one of the most complicated medical specialties to learn. They consider the subject as complex and have difficulties understanding the theory which in turn impedes the application of what they have learned.

The term “neurophobia” describes the fear of neuroscience and clinical neurology that medical students develop with the subsequent incapacity to apply their basic sciences knowledge to clinical practice. This eventually produces a paralysis of thought at the moment of action. In Costa Rica there is a great deficit of neurologists, therefore primary care physicians must have appropriate neurological knowledge in order to provide a satisfactory approach to patients with common neurological disorders.