Control of the teaching activity as methodological work in the National Program of Communitarian Integral Medicine Formation

Abstract

We carried out a research answering to an investigative project in the field of medical education, in the pre-grade area, with the objective of describing the control of the teaching activity as a teaching methodological work of the National Program of Communitarian Integral Medical Formation, in the Communitarian Integral Health Area Pedro Fontes, of the Capital District of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, during the school year 2008-2009. We used a methodological system integrated by theoretical, empirical methods and statistic procedures with a quanti -qualitative approach. A universe of 24 professors was surveyed and 4 key informants were interviewed. We also reviewed documents of interest for information gathering, like: plans of methodological teaching work, acts of control visits and acts of the methodological meetings. Collected information was processed, leading to the results we present and evidencing insufficiencies in the planning and execution of controls to the teaching activities, and also deficiencies in their direction with violations of the established in the Circular MIC 08/2008 for their planning, execution and control.