Abstract

MEDINA BORGES, Rosa María; VALDES VELAZQUEZ, Griselda  and  PERCHE ALVAREZ, Ana Elena. Is career guidance provided to students starting Health Information Systems studies?. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2020, vol.31, n.1, e1418.  Epub May 02, 2020. ISSN 2307-2113.

Selecting a career or trade is a crucial step in the life of young people and their families, for their future will greatly depend on the choice they make. Career guidance plays a vital role in high school and goes on into professional training. The purpose of the study was to assess the career guidance received by students starting Health Information Systems studies in the school year 2018-2019, and propose a system of actions to improve the counseling provided to young people. Diagnostic assessment of freshmen in terms of the information they had received about the specialty, the reasons for their choice, their motivations and their professional expectations, revealed that the guidance they had received was not satisfactory. The main motivations to choose Health Information Systems studies had to do with factors not in keeping with the essence of the specialty, and responded to circumstances essentially unrelated to the interests, needs and love for medical and health sciences.

Keywords : Career guidance; motivation; diagnostic assessment; system of actions.

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