Abstract

GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Raidel  and  CARDENTEY GARCIA, Juan. Vocational guidance in residents of General Integral Medicine. AMC [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.6, pp.685-692. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: vocational guidance promotes a correct choice of the studies according to the social and work context. It becomes really important for the residents of General Integral Medicine, as part of the medical education, since the teaching process develops in different areas. Objective: to characterize the vocational guidance in residents of General Integral Medicine. Methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted between February and March, 2015. The universe and the sample were composed of 58 residents of General Integral Medicine. The 51, 7 % of them were first-year students and the 48, 3 % were second-year students. A documentary analysis of the regulations was made. Results: female sex predominated with a 56, 9 %. It was found that the 57, 94 % of the residents had relatives who work in the same specialty. Regarding the factors that influenced the decision of choosing the specialty of General Integral Medicine, it was found that the 89, 44 % of the residents had the vocation for it and the 10, 56 % chose it for other reasons. Conclusions: the characterization of the elements associated to the vocational guidance of residents of General Integral Medicine allowed verifying the predominance of female sex, the influence of relatives on the vocational guidance to choose this specialty and the existence of a variability of decision-making factors to study it.

Keywords : VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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