NEOLOGISM IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Since ancient times, neologisms have spread rapidly in knowledge and have spread in cultures and languages; The role of the doctor was to transmit confidence to the patient through communication, in this way the word had an important role in therapeutic practices. The aim was to evaluate the teaching of neologisms in effective communication among medical students at a university in Guayaquil, Republic of Ecuador 2024.

Basic, descriptive and explanatory research with a qualitative approach, and non-experimental cross-sectional cohort design. Population is made up of 50 students who collected 500 terms from students and patients from the Los Ceibos hospital clinic in Guayaquil, selecting 100 novel terms for lexical analysis following the characteristics of the subcategories. Two student and patient corpora were constructed according to the selected words.

With the description of the medical language mentioned in the consultation in the doctor-patient and patient-doctor fields, terms were found in cardiology 23%, gynecology 28%, gastroenterology 12%, pulmonology 5%, infectology 3%, neurology 3%, surgery 10% and urology 10%; trying to investigate the tendencies of the lexicon of our corpus. Likewise, the frequency of their use in the outpatient clinic was observed, they take longer time in the consultation due to the communication delivered by the professional.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.013-004