Relação entre experiência musical e habilidade de Ausculta Cardíaca.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The study of cardiac auscultation requires doctors and academics knowledge of timbre, tone and rhythm because those are elements that form, not only, the basis of acoustic, but also the music itself as well. It has been known that the musical experience alters the specific pathways of the brain, so that a person will be capable to differentiate sounds more clearly. This kind of knowledge shows that there are a possible relationship between the musical experience and the ability in cardiac auscultation. In short, this will be the field of research of this study. OBJECTIVES: General - To investigate the relationship between musical experience and medical ability in cardiac auscultation; Specific - To evaluate if exists difference, in the ability of cardiac auscultation, between medical students musicians, medical students non-musicians but, with musical experience and medical students without musical experience. METHODS: An observational and random study, base on a comparison of three independent groups without any

been done by analyzing the information, of fifty medical students, collected during one on one medical student ́s interview randomly chosen, between August to September 2014 at University Hospital Alcides Carneiro (HUAC) in Campina Grande. RESULTS E CONCLUSION: Medical students musicians had better performance on auscultation test compared to medical students non-musicians but, with musical experience and medical students without musical experience.