2017, Number 2
Medical Career: Unmotivated students to study it or teachers with little motivation to teach it
Puga GA
Language: Spanish
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Public Health and the training of its human resources have been a priority during the years of Revolution in Cuba; the result of it is the academic and humanistic quality of the doctors, nurses and other professionals of this sector in Cuba and in several countries of the world.The medical career, specifically, has always been coveted by graduated students from the pre-university as well as other ways that have had access to it.
In previous decades the academic index allowed to obtain the career was over the 90 points, which was combined with an interview and different psycho-pedagogical tests, exigencies that allowed elaborating a predictive diagnosis of the student, determined to study Medicine.
I do not consider that all this selective process made medical studies, an elitist career, as some people thought, because doctors graduated from different social backgrounds have shown the opposite.
REFERENCES
Artino A, La Rochelle J, Durning S. Second-year medical students’ motivational beliefs, emotions, and achievement. Med Educ [Internet]. 2010 [cited: 2017/04/15]; 44(12):1203–12. Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03712.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+unavailable+on+Saturday+12th+August+at+3%3A00+EDT+%2F+8%3A00+BST+%2F+12%3A30+IST+%2F+15%3A00+SGT+for+4+hours+for+essential+maintenance.+Apologies+for+the+inconvenience.