Abstract

LARIOS ORTIZ, Luis; LOPEZ LAMEZON, Sandra; BETANCOURT BETHENCOURT, José  and  MARRERO PUIG, Lourdes Guadalupe. Scientific Productivity of Specialists of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology from Camagüey. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.1, pp. 19-31. ISSN 1727-8120.

Basis: Scientific research and promotion of the obtained results is one of the objectives of the scientific development of the country, mainly when a specialty is involved, in which this task is included in different versions of the study plans. Objectives: to consider starting from the number of publications in the last five years, the scientific productivity of the specialists of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of Camagüey. Method: To carry out this task a cross sectional study was designed by authors through a small, anonymous structured questionary and with the informed consent of all of them, in which the following variables were analyzed: graduation date, publications in the last five years, teaching or scientific category, knowledge of statistical techniques, motivation, participation in scientific events, difficulties for publishing and knowledge of the English language to consult de databases EBSCO and PUBMED. Results: Poor scientific performance is observed, apart from graduation experience, the number of scientific categories by specialists is very low and even though most of them accept that the specialty promotes knowledge and necessary motivations during their postgraduate studies, finally they confirm there are difficulties for publishing and to manage English language for this purpose. Conclusions: The teaching curriculum of Hygiene and Epidemiology specialist does not promote research, one of its basic fields.

Keywords : scientific productivity; publications; hygiene and epidemiology.

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