Abstract

DIAZ RIVERO, Marianela; MOLINA GARCIA, José Ramón  and  RIVERA MICHELENA, Natacha. Training in automated equipment of clinical laboratory of high technology center in Venezuela:: I Basis. Educ Med Super [online]. 2009, vol.23, n.4, pp. 176-184. ISSN 0864-2141.

Clinical Laboratories of the Diagnostic Medical Centers of High Technology (DMCHT) in Venezuela have point technology, which are not very diffused in Cuba, thus we count on enough professional very well trained. OBJECTIVE: To identify the learning needs of physicians specialists and bachelors in Clinical Laboratory to management of point technology equipments from the high technology Diagnostic Medical Centers.To the correct exploitation of high technology equipments authors draw out a training program for professionals from clinical laboratories was draw out. METHODS: Authors made an analysis of important documents related to postgraduate education in Cuba. A survey was applied to 34 professionals. RESULTS: Between the 60% and the 86% of professionals appointed to DMCHTs failed to recognize these technologies. The ratio of professional without previous practical experiences was always above the 76% in the four technologies. CONCLUSIONS: A training program on automated equipments of clinical laboratories of high technology Diagnostic Medical Centers with a contextualized approach and a methodological structuring assuming the assimilation process related directly to own professional reality of the participants. Its application will allows the achievement of a more effective exploitation of point technologies of clinical laboratories from DMCHts.

Keywords : Graduate training; clinical laboratory; high technology.

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