Basic educational competences of stomatology professors: their improvement

• Main Authors: Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Maria Elena Cobas Rodriguez, Jorge Rodríguez López, Pedro Alvarez Rodríguez, Maricela Seijo Machado, Sahily Espino Otero
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2009-04-01
• Series: Medisur
• Subjects: docentes de odontología; competencia profesional; educación en odontología; formación de recursos humanos
• Online Access: http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/534

<strong>Background</strong>: Stomatology professors should master the appropriate educational competences to make the students learn and build their own learning according to contemporary pedagogical trends in Medical Education. <strong>Objective</strong>: To identify the existing deficiencies in professionals´ educational competences. <strong>Method</strong>: Quantitative-qualitative development research in Stomatology career from 2006 to December 2007. This research included 25 professors and the studied variables were: graduation year, experience, educational categorization, pedagogical training and educational competences. Different instruments were applied to professors, students, and directors and a team of experts was formed to work as a nominal group. From the collected data an enabling system of actions was designed. Date was processed using SPSS software version 15.0 for Windows. <strong>Results</strong>: Deficiencies in the development of educational competences were found, negatively influencing educational quality, mainly in the understanding of teaching objectives, and in teaching methods leading to an inappropriate pedagogical investigation. <strong>Conclusions</strong>: Deficiencies in the development of educational competences have an impact on the quality of the future professional. This study is a viable alternative to improve Stomatology professionals in our National Health System.<p> </p>