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Appraisal of the design by competences of the internal medicine sixth year vertical program in Cuba

Abstract:

Introduction: it has been elaborated an Internal Medicine's vertical program in the ambit of the improvement of the study program and it has been debated and assessed by professors along the length of the country. Objective: to appraise the new design for competence of the vertical program of sixth year medicine's students in Internal Medicine. Material and Methods: the investigation was qualitative consisting of the critical analysis of the program using rounds of discussion for e-mails focusing in the assessment of the design by competences. Results: the authors arrive to consensus in that the vertical program softens the jump of the breach in the clinical preparation that exists between a career addressed to instruct an integral doctor for the community and a guided residence to instruct an integral doctor for the hospitals. Are defined the competences keeping his coherence with the functions of the profile of exit and different didactic components. The design evidences adapted flexibility to the dynamic situation of Internal Medicine's service in particular in availability and quality of the resources. Conclusions: the revised program fulfills in essence the designing for competences evidenced in its not personal components. Its flexibility pretend to allow that the thought and the lived curriculum not differ in it fundamental and to get decisions according to demand from each situat ion of learning.