Abstract

FERNANDEZ OLIVA, Bertha et al. Assessment of appropriateness of Medical Education Mastery. Educ Med Super [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.4. ISSN 0864-2141.

The objective of present paper is to assess the relevance of the current Medical Education Mastery Program developing in the Public Health National School from 1998, as well as the quality of the organization and the carrying out of educational teaching process. This is a quantitative and qualitative research using the following types of methods: theoretical, empirical and statistical with the corresponding methodological triangulation of the information obtained by different sources for the analysis and to come to the pertinent conclusions. The documentary review of this program was carried out, the study guidings and the evaluations of each module in the three editions. Interviews to experts of the National Health System were performed to key informers and also mastery surveys from different levels of the formative system with the same objective. Finally, a focal group was developed within the Academic Committee where the proposal programs were discussed and based, with changes that will allow its improvement for future editions of the Mastery. As result, we identified the major changes in the current formative system and the need to prepare students for to direct the educative teaching process with these peculiarities. As conclusions the following features stand out: that there is a high degree of satisfaction with the development of educational teaching process of Mastery expressed by students and professors. The mastery program improvement has been applying in the development of each of its different modules. From the fourth edition we have introduced the design and the execution of curricular strategies: educational research in health and information technologies and of communications. The health virtual classroom is used as a learning resource and virtual strategy of cooperative learning from the third edition.

Keywords : Mastery program assessment; mastery programs significance.

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