Abstract

ORTIZ GARCIA, Martha et al. Competence-based approach in the formative process of pediatrician. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2016, vol.88, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3119.

Since the last century, higher education has witnessed the increasing application of competence-based approach. However, in Cuba this tendency is not explicitly observed either in design or in the pedagogic treatment during the formation process. The competence-based formation is an alternative to be implemented in the graduate medical education. The objective of this paper was to present arguments for the need of adopting a competence-based approach in the process of formation of pediatricians. This was a theoretical paper prepared by the pediatric department of ¨Dr Salvador Allende¨ medical faculty in which theoretical and empirical methods were applied. In the professional and teaching setting, neither the term competence is agreed by consensus, nor is its interpretation homogeneous. Through a process of systematization, one assumes the definition of competence as a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes; mobilization of several capacities to act and achieve performance; this performance may be seen in various contexts whose meanings the person should be able to understand, so that the performance is successful and expression of the personality development. The analysis of the use of the competence approach in several countries allows considering feasibility and appropriateness of the competence-based formation in the Cuban medical education. In this way, we present the competence-based approach and the competence-based formation because this is a viable proposal for the formation of pediatricians in the Cuban setting.

Keywords : competencies; competence-based formation; pedagogic professional performance.

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