Competency-based medical education book
On October 7, the University of Azuay and its publishing house presented the book called "Towards a competency-based medical education - Foundation and implementation in the medical specialties programs of the University of Azuay".
The event was attended by Francisco Salgado, Rector of the University; Martha Cobos, Academic Vice Chancellor; Jacinto Guillén, Vice-rector for Research; Galo Duque, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and commentator on the work; Marcelo Ochoa, author of the book and Coordinator of the Medicine postgraduate course; Mateo Coello, Director of the Postgraduate Department; Toa Tripaldi, Director of the Department of Communication and Publications and directors of different medical specialties at the University, among other authorities.
The book deals with the application of the medical education model based on widely disseminated results in developed countries and in some of Latin America; of a medical education oriented to the training of doctors as future specialists, a model centered on the student and the latter on the patient, the family and society.
The work proposes a curricular network focused on the competencies that graduate students must acquire in order to become specialists who practice the profession with updated professional knowledge, skills, appropriate skills, appropriate attitudes and behaviors.
"The book has a fundamental objective, which is a style of doing things at the University of Azuay in its postgraduate degrees in Medicine so that doctors have the ability to act on their own, without the need for any tutelage," said the Rector. and added:
“Competence in its real sense is the ability to do things for oneself, to have all the training and education to be able to act autonomously. Autonomy is the great contribution that the University of Azuay makes in all its programs ”.
The work is of vital importance for the UDA because it shows how medicine is done within the University of Azuay, thus fulfilling the objective of Dr. Edgar Rodas, founder of the Faculty, who wanted it to become the best medical school in the city, also serving as a model to be replicated.
"The book ranges from the theory of competency-based medical education to the challenges involved in the implementation processes of this teaching-learning methodology, which allow a doctor to be considered competent when he is ready to act independently," said Galo. Duque and added:
"Its main author has managed to combine his experience to translate it into this work that seeks to establish strategies for reflection and analysis to help medical professionals in their training as specialists."
In addition, it is important to highlight the participation as co-authors of the work to prominent doctors and academics of recognized prestige: Xavier Abril, specialist in Pediatrics; Pedro Martínez, specialist in Family and Community Medicine; Juan Pablo Holguín, specialist in Emergencies and Disasters, and Carlos Ortiz, specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Throughout the work there are several perspectives on medical education nuanced by the experience of the authors and their vision of training specialists who exercise health care and medical decision-making according to the needs of patients, from the family and society of the country.
UDA Correspondent
