Objective

To determine the most frequent diagnoses of the patients treated in primary medical care services of the Santo Tomás University (USTA, by its initials in Spanish), Bucaramanga section, between 2015 and 2017.

Method

A retrospective descriptive study of the daily records of patients treated in primary medical care services with an N=13 892 patients -students, administrative workers, professors, graduates, and Open and at Distance Education Division (DUAD, by its initials in Spanish)-. 5 907 records were excluded for a n=7 985 scan data corresponding to patients who used the medical consultation service exclusively.

Results

5 808 (73%) of the consultations were conducted by women and 2 177 (27%) by men; young people between 19 and 26 years (60.9%), undergraduate students (71.8%), in dentistry (29.6%) and law (26.5%), people treated for respiratory diseases (16.4%), affected adolescents (15.4%) and young people (17.2%) more frequently. Acute rhinopharyngitis was the main diagnosis ICD-10. Young people consulted for diarrhea and gastroenteritis of suspected infectious origin (6.7%); adults (5.7%) and professors (6.1%), for neck pain, and administrative workers, for unspecified viral infection (5.7%).

Conclusions

The population who attended medical consultation of the Santo Tomás University in Bucaramanga throughout 2015-2017 were mainly women and young people between 19 and 26 years. Communicable diseases such as respiratory diseases were more frequent than chronic noncommunicable diseases, mainly acute rhinopharyngitis, a disease of high transmissibility in the community. Women, adolescents, and undergraduate students were treated in consultation for contraceptive counseling, which coincides with the National Demography and Health Survey.