SUMMARY BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skill (OSATS) tool into Brazilian Portuguese and to determine its reproducibility and validity in Brasil. METHODS A Brazilian Portuguese version of OSATS was created...
Background: Outcomes-based education is a trend in medical education and its assessment is one of the main challenges. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is one of the tools used to assess clinical competencies. Although Chilean medical schools have used OSCEs for 18 years, there is a v...
Qualification of learning outcomes in terms of knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy provided by medical specialist programs is of interest to State authorities, educational service providers, employers, and specialists. Countries that are signatories to the Bologna Process and others outside Eu...
In the last 150 years, scientific research has produced extraordinary discoveries in Medicine and there is no doubt that research will continue contributing substantially in the future but there is no the same conviction regarding how to provision such capacities in medical graduates. In Chile, the Facul...
La investigación científica en residentes de Medicina General Integral se desarrolla de manera gradual, aspecto que no puede verse aislado, sino insertada en problemáticas sociales o laborales. El propósito del trabajo fue valorar la investigación científica en residentes de Medicina General Integr...
Objective: To describe the main measures adopted in order to raise the concept of USP Urology program, and thus be able to help other programs with similar shortcomings to remedy these problems. Method: We highlighted the measures taken between the years 2005 and 2013 which contributed to the CAPES elev...
