Introduction:

The training, development, evaluation of skills and performance of the health professionals has been a concern in the last decades, to increase the quality of the services. Likewise, medical universities work in favor of providing professionals with adequate skills and mode of action.

Objective:

To evaluate, from the permanent and continuous training, the professional skills of specialist in general surgery, starting from the preparation of the skill profile file.

Materials and methods:

A development, descriptive, exploratory study was carried out in the period from January 2022 to January 2023 at the Clinical Surgical University Hospital Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández, of Matanzas. The 28 specialists in general surgery who work in the hospital participated in the research, and the variable “professional skills” was analyzed. The following theoretical methods were used: documentary analysis, analytic-synthetic, systematization; induction-deduction and modeling; and as empirical: experts’ consultation with the Delphi method by rounds, and for evaluation, the 360 degrees method.

Results:

The professional skills of the specialist in general surgery were evaluated according to the profile elaborated; the limitations and the need to improve from permanent and continuous training were identified.

Conclusions:

The evaluation of the specialist in general surgery from the profile of professional skills, is the start point for an adequate professional performance, and the enrichment of medical education sciences from the principle of the permanent and continuous training.

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