2015, Number 3
Proposal of improvement of evaluation cards of general integral medicine residents
Ramos HR, Díaz DAA
Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 608-616
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: in the general integral physician formation the evaluation system should provide the formative process with an instrument for evaluating the acquisition of different abilities by the human resources in a systematic and uniform way.Objectives: to submit a proposal for improvement of the evaluation card of general integral medicine residents in Boyeros municipality that will allow evaluating in a comprehensive way the skills acquired by the resident and favoring the scope of the objectives stated in the curriculum of this specialty.
Methods: a technological development research study was conducted in the field of higher medical education, which analyzed the documents currently used for the evaluation of residents through the theoretical methods involving analysis and synthesis, and historical-logical one. There was created an evaluation card of specific skills in general integral medicine residents.
Results: it was possible to confirm the need of improving this instrument by detecting the deficiencies of the current card and of working out a new instrument that may upgrade it.
Conclusions: the evaluation system of the general integral medicine residents does not offer the necessary guidelines to set the association among the knowledge, the skills and the values of each professional competence to be developed in this formation process and to evaluate them. It is then suggested to apply an instrument that allows professors of this specialty to evaluate the acquisition of specific skills by the residents according the objectives set in the curriculum of this specialty.
REFERENCES
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