Abstract

WILCHES-VISBAL, Jorge Homero  and  OBISPO-SALAZAR, Kelly Johana. Historical production of teachers in the faculty of health sciences of a Colombian public university: analysis and recommendations. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2023, vol.34  Epub May 30, 2023. ISSN 2307-2113.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the historical production of medical, nursing, dentistry and psychology teachers assigned to the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta (Colombia). For this purpose, the publications of the permanent and occasional professors of each program were counted. The productivity index (publications/number of professors) and the minimum number of professors with more than 50% of the productivity per program were calculated. Likewise, the distribution of total production (including the four programs) and the quartiles were determined, which serve not only to observe the asymmetry of productivity, but also for a possible classification. It was found that the productivity of the teachers is higher than 1000. The most productive programs were Medicine (481), Psychology (253), Nursing (166) and Dentistry (148). When correcting for faculty size, Medicine and Psychology continue to lead; Dentistry is equal to Nursing. Of the 73 professors included in the study, only 6 have an atypical production (> 25) and account for more than 50% of the total. Of these, four have doctorates and three are occasional (fixed-term contract). It is concluded: i) the nursing program has the most uniform productivity; ii) the medicine program has the highest productivity, but uneven; and iii) more than half of the production is concentrated in six (8%) full-time faculty members. It is recommended to take actions to standardize production, qualifying and motivating teachers with greater difficulties.

Keywords : health research evaluation; scientific production indicators; teachers; medical schools.

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