Cualidades más valoradas en un residente por los tutores de una Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria

Abstract

Background: ignorance of tutor's opinion about their residents. Objective: to know the qualities that Family and Community Medicine residents must have according to the opinion hold by tutors from the Te aching Unit in Murcia. Subjects and method: descriptive, qualitative s t u d y. Subjects: all tutors from teaching ambulatories with Family and Comunitary Medicine re s idents, including Family and Comunitary physicians and pediatricians. An anonymous, self-applied, personally distributed, open-answ e red inquiry is made on the basis of only one question: which qualities do you value most positively in a resident? The answers were classified by items to be valued in a tutor according to the Speciality Program. Data are presented in absoluted numbers and in percentages over total numbers of answers. Results: eighteen inquiries are obtained, with an average of more than nine answers per re s ident. Qualities most positively valued are re l a t e d to the personal attitudes of the resident (41.2% of all answers). Next appear the teaching abilities (17.4%), clinical qualifications and the ability of resident to communicate and get a good re l a t i o nship with the tutor (13.9 and 13.4%, re s p e c t i v e l y). The less valued items are relationship with patients (8.1%), capability of working as a part of a g roup and re s e a rch abilities (less than 5%). More than 50% of the answers are re f e rred to the perso-RESUMEN Fundamento: desconocimiento de la opinión que tienen los tutores sobre los residentes.