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Professional skills in clinical intervention by the performance ways of third-year dental surgery students

Abstract:

Introduction: The process of building professional skills in clinical intervention associated with the performance ways of third-year students of the Dental Surgery major at Pinar del Rio University of Medical Sciences has not been systematic, since it does not guarantee the relation between the objectives and purposes of the year with the problems to be faced, limiting their contribution to the performance ways of the basic comprehensive doctor in dental surgery. Objective: To define, from the application of a group of pedagogical and didactic foundations based on recognized theories, the system of professional skills in clinical intervention in view of the professional’s performance ways. Methods: Theoretical and empirical research methods were applied, highlighting the dialectic approach that guides the process of perfecting the student’s training in dentistry, based on the demands imposed by the national health system in Cuba, guaranteeing the basic relationship between skill-objective of year outcome and the professional’s performance ways. Results: We obtained the system of professional skills in clinical intervention from the integrating objective of the year, consisting of 165 skills in five groups: community intervention, clinical intervention, diagnostic-communicative, teaching research and administrative. Conclusions: The systemic approach to the process of training skills in clinical intervention in the third year of the Dental Surgery major is based on the correlation of its components, taking the outcome objective as an articulating axis, for the guiding ability to achieve the tribute to the performance ways characterizing this year.