Experience on monitoring the impact in dermatologists training in the Medical University of Matanzas

Abstract

Introduction: the quality evaluation and accreditation in training conceptualizes the impact monitoring as the process aimed to evaluate the correspondence between the objectives of the program and the results achieved by the participants in the concrete social environment, with the purpose of assessing the training process and propitiating the necessary feedback to increase its social pertinence. Objective: to apply the methodology designed for monitoring the impact of training for medical specialties on the Program of the Specialty Dermatology.

Material and methods: the study was developed taking as referent the methodology designed for medical specialties in the University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas and taking into account the results of the auto-evaluations for the process of specialists´ training in those specialties, that was developed in the studied institution in the period from September 2014 to June 2019,

Results: the used methodology revealed a satisfactory balance from each of the categories, predominating High and Medium range in the training process. 60.2 % got the High category at the end of the training, and it is to be highlighted that Low category was not found.

Conclusions: the study showed the necessity and pertinence of the applied methodology, allowing to know the main impacts of the training process of specialists in Dermatology and to identify improvement opportunities.