Abstract

OJEDA GONZALEZ, José Julio; IGLESIAS LEON, Miriam  and  LEON GONZALEZ, Jorge Luis. Diagnosis of the ability to comprehensively treat pain in medical students of the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.1, pp. 235-241.  Epub Feb 02, 2021. ISSN 2218-3620.

The insufficiency of the ability to comprehensively treat pain demands that Universities and their faculties look for alternatives in the training model that, from a historical and contextual conception, help to train this skill. It is essential in the professional performance of the General Practitioner, for pain is becoming a recurrent health problem in the population.

Higher Education institutions are responding to this demand by studying skills building matters in theory and in practice. This article presents a diagnosis obtained by triangulating the data from surveys, interviews and documentary analysis, which revealed deficiencies in medical students’ ability to comprehensively treat pain in Cienfuegos. The authors put forth of a system of learning tasks to contribute to the development of this skill, to be accomplished in the healthcare context through on-the-job education as a guiding principle of medical training.

Keywords : Concept of ability; comprehensive treatment of the pain; System of Learning tasks.

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