Garí MA, Iputo JE

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Community-centered education is an essential component of curricular design for the medical major. In the second academic year, students stay for three weeks in rural hospitals, from which they go to clinics, community health centers and community houses.
Objectives: To identify evidence of compliance with the learning objectives of this activity in the home visits plans of the participants.
Methods: The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the content was carried out of the home visits plan of 58 students. The information was grouped according to the three learning settings, and a second analysis derived in the following categories: determinants that affect the health of the population, diseases that caused users to go to health centers, as well as information about the functioning of these institutions.
Results: Poverty, unemployment, smoking and alcoholism were the health determinants that the students mentioned most frequently. While malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy and abandoning treatment were the causes that forced users to request care services at both the primary and secondary levels of healthcare. They also highlighted the role of the nursing staff in the services offered by health centers, as well as the role of all departments (doctors and non-doctors) in the running of the hospital.
Conclusions: The categories derived from the home visits plan reflect that the educational objectives were fulfilled and that the experience was a fruitful regarding the social relations and opportunities to learn.