NEOLOGISM IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Since antiquity, neologisms have been rapidly extended into knowledge and spread across cultures and languages; The doctor's role was to convey confidence to the patient through communication, in this way the word had an important role in therapeutic practices. It was about evaluating the teaching of neologisms in the effective communication of medical students at a university in Guayaquil, Republic of Ecuador 2024.

Basic, descriptive and explanatory research with a qualitative approach, and cross-sectional cohort experimental design. The population is made up of 50 students who collected 500 terms in students and patients from the hospital consultation at the Ceibos de Guayaquil, selecting 100 new terms for lexical analysis following the characteristics of the subcategories. The student and patient corpus was built based on selected words.

With the description of the medical language mentioned in the consultation in the doctor-patient and patient-doctor fields, terms will be found in cardiology 23%, Gynecology 28%, Gastroenterology 12%, pneumology 5%, infectious disease 3%, neurology 3%, surgery 10% and urology 10%; trying to investigate the trends in the lexicon of our corpus. Thus, the frequency of its use in the external consultation was observed, with greater time taken in the consultation due to the communication delivered by the professional.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.013-007