Martínez UE, Sánchez PM, Yu PM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The evaluation process provides feedback about the effectiveness of teaching and the outcomes of learning.
Objective: To characterize the final evaluation of the internship in Family Medicine during an academic year.
Methods: A descriptive, quantitative and qualitative, retrospective and observational study was carried out in the subject Family Medicine of the sixth academic year at Manuel Fajardo Medical School in 2014-2015. The primary data was obtained from documentary information. The variables were processed in an Excel worksheet operated in Windows XP. Absolute and relative frequencies were calculated, triangulation of information was carried out, together with the composition of the instrument, while the contents of the evaluation were defined.
Results: 76.3 % obtained excellent in the final evaluation and 1.1 % failed with a qualitative promotion of 93.5 %. In the frequent evaluation, 81.8 % obtained excellent and 15 %, good. In the practical examination, 71 % obtained excellent and 23.6 %, good. In the theoretical evaluation, 60.2 % obtained excellent and 24.7 %, good. The evaluative instrument is correspondent with an objective test of seven questions. The question with the greatest number of errors belongs to the prevention content and the best results were related to the family and the communicable diseases. The teaching setting with difficulties in the promotion corresponded to La Rampa Outpatient Polyclinic.
Conclusions: A good quality index predominated in the final evaluation. In frequent evaluation, the practical and theoretical examination, there is a predominance of the categories excellent and good. The content about prevention provides more errors and the best answers were related to the contents about family and communicable diseases. The teaching setting with the lowest results was La Rampa Outpatient Polyclinic.