Abstract

VALDESPINO ALBERTI, Ana Iris; GARCIA PERALTA, Tania; LEVON HERRERA, Raquel  and  FORRELLAT BARRIOS, Mariela. Evaluation of the use of databases available for students and faculty of the transfusion medicine profile. RCIM [online]. 2013, vol.5, n.1, pp. 91-102. ISSN 1684-1859.

The paper aims to explore the students' and faculty's abilities in the use of data bases available in the Health System Network. An informational competence survey to 7 teachers and 11 students of the Health Technologies program (Transfusional Medicine branch) was applied in "Enrique Cabrera" Faculty of Medicine. The survey identified the knowledge about bibliography search and usage of information sources. Ethics procedures, such as anonymity, were followed. The results show that most of the professors know and use the data bases PUBMED e HINARI. 16.7 % of them require the help of a specialist. On the other hand, students showed total ignorance of the data bases available in Infomed. Teachers and students do not use nor know DYNAMED database; meanwhile the more visited search engine is Google. We can conclude that there is a deficient informational competence so we recommend developing information related abilities through workshops and other curricula activities.

Keywords : database; health system network; use of the information and communication technologies; bibliographic search; information sources; informational competence.

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