Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico Docente “Dr. León Cuervo Rubio”. Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Dirección de Posgrado. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico Docente “Dr. León Cuervo Rubio”. Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Universidad de Pinar del Río “Hermanos Saiz Montes de Oca”. Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”, Departamento Metodológico. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Introduction: community-acquired pneumonia remains a global public health problem in contrast to strategies to reduce its incidence, therefore, a new improvement of specialists, due to the continuous changes in traditionally recognized epidemiology and treatment.
Objective: determine a new perspective for the development of the professional improvement process of internal medicine specialists on community-acquired pneumonia at the “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna” Faculty of Medical Sciences, Pinewood of the River.
Methods: they are based on the mixed approach with a sequential transformative design, executed through methodological triangulation of methods applied to a sample of 35 teachers and five health directors. The sampling for the study was simple and purposeful random, by meeting established inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Results: the scientific-technological perspective of the process of professional improvement of specialists in internal medicine was determined, related to the use of the clinical method; the regularities of the initial state were defined and determined.
Conclusions: the scientific and technological nature of the professional improvement process on community-acquired pneumonia was determined, through the appropriate use of the clinical method as a methodological tool that guided the integration of diagnostic methods during education at work and the overcoming of insufficiencies to satisfy learning needs of teaching specialists, they do not achieved emphasis on the functional method of the profession, to enrich their diagnostic and therapeutic competence they need.
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