Introduction:

The advance in the dissimilar treatments and professional skills around the surgical intervention in the American continent goes together with the development that exists in Europe, and Cuba is not exempt of the progresses reached until the present time.

Objective:

To diagnose the inadequacies in the development of the general surgeons professional skills, in the mediate preoperative care.

Methods:

A quasi-experimental investigation of 60 specialist doctors and residents, in charge of the mediate preoperative care was carried out in Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso Teaching General Hospital from Santiago de Cuba, from December, 2019 to May, 2021, for which 2 groups were conformed: A (study group) and B (control group), with 30 members each one. The selected variables were analyzed and the dimensions to demonstrate the correspondence with the indicators of these variables were defined.

Results:

There was prevalence of the male sex in both groups and the 15 - 44 age group (83.3 % in group A and 90.0 % in group B). The most affected dimensions in decreasing order were: training, cognitive, scientific - investigative and axiological. The triangulation of the instruments showed that the variable professional performance was in a high level of affectation.

Conclusion:

The theoretical and empiric investigations for the characterization of the current state of the general surgeons allowed to determine that inadequacies existed in all the explored dimensions, which made difficult the development of the professional skills related to the mediate preoperative care.

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