Transversal competences and professionalism in Argentina´s medicine school. From prescriptions to the classroom.

Abstract

The physicians intervene in the vital deployment of children, young people and adults with decisions that can mark not only the quality of life of people but, in particular, the border between life and death. In recent decades, various investigations have been developed on the consequences of malpractice, iatrogenesis and medical errors. These are practices indicated as the third cause of death in the United States of America. Hese cases show that specific knowledge and skills are insufficient for good professional performance and refer to problems of another order such as communication difficulties as well as problems to work in teams, among others. That is, they refer to transversal professional competences.In that framework, the author's doctoral thesis was presented, which is presented in a synthetic version in this article. In this research it was investigated to what extent their teaching is prescribed in the curriculum, cross-cutting professional competencies and professionalism in the medical career in Argentina are taught and evaluated. To finalize the study, educational policy documents were analyzed in the resolution version, documents of the case selected for this study were analyzed and surveys were applied to students (N = 140) and professionals working in health centers (N = 100). This article will present the results of the scales of the Educational Policies and the classroom more deeply than the results of the institution for issues related to the length of the text. For the analysis of the data the interpretive method was used.