ABSTRACT
Introducción: La formación de médicos especialistas en Otorrinolaringología es una necesidad en nuestro país, lo que debe incluir un aprendizaje de contenidos teóricos y adquisición de habilidades prácticas. Objetivo: Evaluar el cumplimiento de los objetivos prácticos planteados por el programa de formación de especialistas de la Escuela de Postgrado de la Universidad de Chile. Material y método: Estudio retrospectivo, descriptivo a partir de los libros del pabellón del Servicio de Otorrinolaringología del Hospital San Juan de Dios, en el período 1996-2007. Resultados: El cumplimiento global de los objetivos es de 57,3%. Discusión y conclusión: Diversos factores pueden explicar el resultado. Consideramos el más importante la falta de actualización del programa a los avances tecnológicos de la especialidad y a la realidad epidemiológica nacional.
Introduction. Adequate specialty training in otorhinolaryngology should include both theoretical learning and the acquisition of practical skills. Aim. To assess the practical skills objectives reached by the medical specialty training program at the University of Chile Postgraduate School. Material and method. Retrospective and descriptive study based on the surgical ward medical records of the Otorhinolaryngology Department of San Juan de Dios Hospital, between 1996 and 2007. Results. The overall rate of objectives reached was 57,3%. Discussion and conclusion. Several factors may account for the results. Most important in our view is the Program failure to keep updated according to the specialty new technological advances and the local epidemiological reality.
Subject(s)
Humans , Internship and Residency , Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures/education , Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures/statistics & numerical data , Chile , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
The Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery training program of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical School, is enjoining a full accreditation by the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Since its foundation 76 Otolaryngologist--Head Neck surgeons have graduated, the first class was in 1962 and the last in June 1998, ten of them moved to the mainland where they practice or teach in renown universities. Our program is five year's durations, and it includes one year of general surgery and four years of progressive education in the specialty. Experience in the surgical sciences will precede the otolaryngology--head and neck surgery education, two residents are accepted each year