Formación por competencias en ortopedia y traumatología en el pregrado / Pregrade problem based learning in orthopaedics and traumatology

Traumatic injuries of the skeletal system are frequent events in daily life, and the general practitioner must be able to manage them. The physician must possess at the moment of his graduation the competence defined in his professional profile for the mentioned event. In the present paper we are describing the planning process of the competence based learning with a concrete example of traumatology.

Las lesiones traumáticas del aparato locomotor son acontecimientos del diario vivir, y el médico general debe estar capacitado para afrontarlos. El médico debe poseer para el efecto en el momento de su egreso las competencias definidas en el perfil profesional. En el presente artículo describimos con un ejemplo concreto de la traumatología el proceso de planeación del aprendizaje basado en competencias.

La Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad Austral de Chile. Un compromiso regional / The Universidad Austral de Chile Medical School

The Universidad Austral de Chile Medical School was created in 1966. Itys general goal was to train a general physician with capacities to integrate biological, psychological and social issues, to deal with prevalent diseases as well as with the non referablee casualties, to analyze health situations and to manage health teams. From its beginning, it incorporated anthropological and the public health contents to medical curriculum. Moreover, the formal teaching formation was reduced to 5 years, increasing the intership cycle to 2 years, with an important practice on primary health care in regional hospitals, that included a research profect on health administration. A revision of the School curriculum showed the need of a better horizontal and vertical integration of medical education. Consequently, global courses were organized to gather knowledge that, until now,was delivered in a fragmented form. Our Medical School has a major impact in the southern region of the country and over 60 percent of its graduates have settled in this zone, improving its physician/inhabitant relationship and the number of specialists