La relación estudiante-tutor fue buena. El mayor porcentaje de dichos tutores no poseían categoría docente (73,1 %); además, existieron insuficiencias en el dominio de sus funciones y limitaciones en su preparación metodológica, pedagógica y científica.
Conclusiones:
Pudo demostrarse que la mayoría de los tutores desempeñaban labores asistenciales, fundamentalmente de asesoría metodológica.
Introduction:
Tutorship is a pedagogical activity that has as purpose to guide and to support the students during his training process.
A descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study was carried out, in Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso TeachingGeneral Hospital from Santiago de Cuba, during the schoolcourse 2016-2017. The universe was constituted by 93 professor-tutors and the 311 students of the nursing career, belonging to the different study modalities. Surveys were applied to students and teaching staff. Variables such as relationship student-tutor, teaching category, tutor activities, tutor's preparation for their professional performance and level of students' satisfaction were analyzed .
Results:
The relation student-tutor was good. The highest percentage of these tutors had no teaching category (73.1 %); also, inadequacies existed in the domain of their functions and limitations in their methodological, pedagogical and scientific preparation.
Conclusions:
It could be demonstrated that most of the tutors carry out care works, fundamentally of methodological advice.