Contribution of monitoring in the academic training of health professionals: a review

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Interactions with the environment, social stimulation, and environmental conditions drive intellectual progress. Academic monitoring profoundly impacts building new knowledge, thus providing educational enrichment and significantly affecting future health professionals. The purpose of the study was to carry out a literature review on the importance of monitoring experiences and their contribution to the academic training of health students. This is a literature review. Journals were selected using the Pubmed, Scholar Google, and Virtual Health Library (VHL) databases. The studies reviewed show beneficial changes in learning, such as improving situational skills, including active listening, empathy, and humanized care. The experiences refine interpersonal skills, requiring students to be creative, investigate, and think logically when solving problems. They also raise awareness of didactic-pedagogical sensitivity and self-expression, fostering confidence in understanding one’s weaknesses and encouraging autonomy in constructing knowledge. It is also the first step towards teaching practice. These findings refer to nutrition, nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry, medicine, and physical education students. It can be concluded that the monitoring activity leads to promising results in the social and behavioral spheres, which include interpersonal skills, reflecting on empathetic conduct that favors humanized care, as well as boosting skills in the academic and scientific context, such as logical reasoning, autonomy in the construction of knowledge, security, development of weaknesses, strengthening of theoretical expertise and independence in the construction of new knowledge.