Abstract

INFANTE TAVIO, Nadia Inés; MENDO ALCOLEA, Neity  and  VAZQUEZ SANCHEZ, Monserrat. Determinant factors of the school desertion in «Frank País García» Teaching Polyclinic from Santiago de Cuba. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.4, pp.526-531. ISSN 1029-3019.

A study of investigation type was carried out in the field of pregraduate medical education to 33 first year students in the first semester of the course 2010-2011 at "Frank País García" Polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba, with the objective of identifying the determinant factors of the school desertion in this period. To obtain the information, a inquiry was applied to the students, endorsed by experts' criteria, and theoretical and empiric methods (described in the work) were carried out. It was obtained that the school desertion was high and among its main causes there were teaching inadequacy, desertion and the lack of vocational guide.

Keywords : university student; medical education; school desertion; teaching inadequacy; vocational guide.

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