Proposal and evaluation of the basic competences of the aspiring students to some of the postgraduate degrees of the medicine faculty of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in the second semester of 2003

Abstract

The present work of degree consisted in making a proposal and evaluation of the basic competences of the aspiring students to some of the postgraduate degrees of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, which were presented in the second semester of 2003. The population was 92 applicants who attended the postgraduate courses in general surgery, ophthalmology, pain and palliative care, psychiatry, pediatrics, dermatology, anesthesiology, orthopedics and traumatology, internal medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, from the School of Health Sciences: the sample was of 34 students who were selected to enroll in the aforementioned postgraduate degrees. Although the instrument was applied to all, the analysis was carried out with the (34) applicants who were admitted. The instrument used was the 16 PF Sys Valanty, the version was reviewed by the psychologist Octavio Escobar. Subsequently, ten expert panels corresponding to the ten postgraduate courses of the sample were made. The panels were based on the DELFHI methodology to guide the group discussion; A previous list of competencies was analyzed, after a theoretical sensitization, according to the results that the panels showed, the proposal was made. The data were processed according to the competences that were the product of the panels in light of the correlation of the different factors of the applied instrument, resulting in the comparison of the desired profile and the actual profile for each of the postgraduate courses and suggesting a selection model for this type of population.