Abstract

GUEVARA DE LEON, Tamara et al. Professional upgrading in Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences. Its progression from 2012 to 2014. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.2, pp. 107-120. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the professional upgrading has as objective the steady formation and the systematic updating of the graduate university students, the improvement of performance in their professional and academic activities, as well as the enrichment of their cultural background. Objective: to characterize the progressive behavior of the professional upgrading in Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences in the academic year 2013-2014, in respect to 2012-2013. Methods: it was carried out a cross-sectional descriptive study in which theoretical and empiric methods were used, these last ones were mainly based on the review of the databases of professional upgrading of the Post graduate Direction; the statistical analysis with the obtained information was carried out, the absolute frequencies and percentage were used for that purpose. Results: courses and workshops were the predominant modalities in the analyzed period; the general topics were strategies for the analysis of health picture, the upgrading linked to the new services and technologies and others of comprehensive general formation. The biggest increment in activities and participants corresponds to the Program of Transmissible diseases; in the second place, the Infant- Maternity Attention Program, then, non Transmissible Chronic diseases, the Elderly People Attention Program and that of Suicide. All of them respond to necessities expressed in the health picture of the province. Conclusions: considerable increments in activities and participants took place in most of the health programs; it represents a progressive state of the professional upgrading in Villa Clara, from 2012 to 2014.

Keywords : Professional development; educational process; education, medical.

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