Job Competencies in occupational medical: identification, learning and development

Abstract

The present research, had as aim, identify the labor competences to generate sure environments of work and history of learning and development of the same ones in a group of professionals of the occupational medicine. The participants were nine occupational doctors who are linked in modality of employment to different organizations of the productive sector of the city of Cali (EPS, ARP, multinationals and academicians), with a minimal experience of ten years and which participation was voluntary. The instruments used were the interview in depth for the compilation of information and the analysis of content for the processing of the same one. As result there were obtained twelve labor competences of this group of professionals, as well as the feelings associated with the history, learning and development of the same ones, which allowed to extend comprehension of the relations health - work - disease beyond objective indicators related to the physical health (which not constitutes the hegemonic trend in case of the competences in the organizational area) and represents a contribution to the integral concept of health and of the dignity of the man in his productive role.