Abstract

VICENTE ODIO, Eladio Francisco. Medical error: a focus from pedagogy. Educ Med Super [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.4, pp.790-799. ISSN 0864-2141.

For a long time, medical error was considered as a pejorative term within medical sciences but not in the field of economics and law. In our opinion, for a phenomenon and object to be known, it is necessary to delve into its essence and its relationship system and thus contributing to its prevention or reduction. The objective of this paper is to determine the relationships of the medical error and the higher medical education. For this purpose, the study of the object should start from its very genesis which, in our opinion, lies in the teaching process since this is the time when all the necessary skills are acquired to have good medical practice. The medical error differs from other elements like breach or imprudence, negligence, bad faith, abandonment, lack of skills, abuse, etc and it is quite important to differentiate them because the behavior to be adopted is different for each case. It is then concluded that shortages existing in the teaching process of the higher medical education are directly proportional to predisposition to medical error or medical malpractice in the health professionals. Besides, the technological development also predisposes them to medical error if adequate teaching methods and approaches are not put in place. Further research works and studies on the medical error are recommended to be made in Cuba in order to learn more about its epidemiological characteristics and system of relationships to prevent it or reduce its incidence and prevalence.

Keywords : medical error; teaching-learning process; higher medical education; medical malpractice.

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