Abstract

ALONSO REYES, Mayrelis et al. Characterization of the pedagogical preparation of the tutors in the Public Health rotation in Medicine. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.3, pp.171-187. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: tutors' performance in Primary Health Care is essential to ensure the quality of in-service training activities and the achievement of the skills of fifth-year medical students in the Public Health rotation. Objective: to characterize the performance of the tutors in the in-service training activities in the Public Health rotation in the medical career. Methods: a descriptive investigation was carried out, from February to April 2016, at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction and empirical ones: the survey in questionnaire form to tutors and interview to managers of the educational process in each health area, and the open observation through a guide. Absolute and relative frequency measurements were used for data analysis. Results: most tutors do not have a teaching rank; however, they have a 7-year teaching experience; although they consider important the in-service training activities, they have deficiencies to recognize the modalities that are applied in the subject; in addition, methodological difficulties were identified in the preparation, control and assessment of the teaching activities. Conclusions: the insufficient performance of tutors is due to difficulties in their pedagogical preparation and the low teaching ranking of teachers, which conspires against the quality of the process they develop.

Keywords : teaching; mentors; education, medical; public health.

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