Educational Competitions of the Family Doctor in their Acting as Tutor in the Career of Medicine

• Main Authors: José de la Caridad Lorenzo López, Beatriz María Fuster Cabrera, Belkis González Aguiar, Annia Machín Acia
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2012-06-01
• Series: Medisur
• Subjects: competencia profesional; docentes médicos; médicos de familia; tutoría, estudiantes de medicina; atención primaria de salud
• Online Access: http://www.medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1693

<strong>Background:</strong> for the identification of a group of competitions characteristic of the educational work of the Family doctors that you/they act as tutors in the formative scenarios of the Primary Attention of Health in University Policlínico Cecilio Ruíz of Zárate. <strong>Objective:</strong> to identify the educational main competitions of the doctors of the family like tutors in the career of Medicine, in the Area II of the municipality of Cienfuegos. <strong>Method:</strong> pedagogic investigation of descriptive type in the mark of the medical education that looked for to define the group of educational basic competitions, what can favor a pedagogic management of more quality in the medical clinics as formative scenario of University Policlínico Cecilio Ruíz of Zárate during the year 2010. <strong>Results</strong>: 61,5% of our tutors has more than 10 years of medical formation; more than the half, their 73.1% is not categorized, 84.6% is specialist of general integral medicine, but of the half they received the preparation shop for tutors and 96.2% they consider the basic competitions as very important. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> deficiencies exist in the way of the tutor's performance for categorized personnel's lack, pedagogic scarce preparation and the assistance load of the professors in the primary attention of health.