Valoración de la producción científica de los profesionales sanitarios: una propuesta / Assessment of scientific production of health care professionals: a proposal

Con la inminente instauración de la carrera profesional para el personal sanitario en todo el territorio nacional, es importante disponer de una herramienta que ayude a la valoración de los méritos de investigación que en ella se contemplan, y contribuya a su evaluación homogénea por los distintos tribunales. En este artículo se presenta una propuesta para la valoración de la variada producción científica de los profesionales sanitarios, analizando de forma separada las características y requisitos mínimos que deben reunir para ser tenidas en cuenta las contribuciones en revistas, los libros, las comunicaciones a congresos y la tesis doctoral, y se pondera cada uno de ellos teniendo en cuenta aspectos de calidad y difusión

With the imminent establishment of a professional career for all the Health Care staff in the entire national territory, it is important to have a tool that helps to assess the research merits that are contemplated in it and that contribute to their homogeneous evaluation by the different boards. A proposal is present in this article for the evaluation of varied scientific production of Health Care professionals, separately analyzing the characteristics and minimum requirements needed for the contributions in journals, books, communications at a congress and doctorate thesis. Each one of them is weighted, considering aspects of quality and dissemination

[How much time does the physician dedicate to his patients? A study of contents of office visits and their length]. / Cuánto tiempo le dedica a sus pacientes? Estudio del contenido de las consultas médicas según su duración.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the content and length of General Medicine interviews at a health centre, analysing the problems dealt with and activities undertaken, in function of the time taken. DESIGN: A crossover study. SETTING: An urban health centre at Alcobendas (Madrid). PATIENTS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS: The problems, activities and length of all the interviews (926) were recorded over a period of 10 days. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The average length of the interviews was 6.7 minutes (standard error SE = 0.13). More problems were dealt with, and more activities carried out, in the longer interviews. Problems of a psycho-social character and preventive activities were discussed in the long interviews. Significant differences were found in the length of interviews in function of the patient's age and between different professionals. CONCLUSION: To achieve integrated care which includes both preventive medicine and psycho-social problems, doctors must have more interview time, as these questions are not tackled in short interviews.