Vocational training and motivation: its incidence in the study of the career of Medicine

Authors

  • Vivian Amalia Herrera Moya University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.
  • Iván Alfonso Tejeda University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.
  • Mayra Quintana Uguando Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas. Villa Clara.
  • Maydell Pérez Inéranty Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas. Villa Clara.
  • Lelys Navarro Aguirre University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.
  • Iliana Margarita Sosa Fleites University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.

Keywords:

education, medical, vocational guidance, motivation

Abstract

Background: vocational training and motivation of students influence the choice of the future profession.
Objectives: to determine the correspondence of the Medicine career choice with the vocational interests and the motivation referred by the first year students of Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences, during the 2016-2017 academic year.
Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out during 2016. Theoretical methods were applied: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; empirical ones: survey in the form of a questionnaire, and mathematical-statistics for the processing of information.
Results: it was found that the highest percentage of students who chose the Medicine career had a vocation for their study. Its main motivations were related to human solidarity, economic improvements, the possibility of fulfilling internationalist missions and the family tradition, and in lesser percentage expressed not to feel vocation for the career and no disposition towards the prevention of diseases.
Conclusions: it was determined that there is marked correspondence between the career obtained and the vocation and motives referred by the students; the diagnosis made demonstrated the need to continue strengthening the values in order to promote vocational training and professional guidance in these students.

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Author Biographies

Vivian Amalia Herrera Moya, University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.

Doctor in medicine. Specialist of II Degree in Histology and I Degree in Pathological Anatomy. Assistant Professor.

Iván Alfonso Tejeda, University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.

Master in Social Studies. Bachelor of Education Specialty Marxism-Leninism. Assistant Professor.

Mayra Quintana Uguando, Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas. Villa Clara.

Degree in psychology. Master's Degree in Higher Education Doctor in Psychological Sciences. Associate Professor.

Maydell Pérez Inéranty, Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas. Villa Clara.

Degree in psychology. Master's Degree in Higher Education Doctor in Psychological Sciences. Associate Professor.

Lelys Navarro Aguirre, University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.

Licentiate in Biochemistry. Master in Biochemistry. Assistant Professor.

Iliana Margarita Sosa Fleites, University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara.

Degree in Defectology. Master in Psychopedagogy. Assistant Professor.

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Published

2018-03-09

How to Cite

1.
Herrera Moya VA, Alfonso Tejeda I, Quintana Uguando M, Pérez Inéranty M, Navarro Aguirre L, Sosa Fleites IM. Vocational training and motivation: its incidence in the study of the career of Medicine. EDUMEC [Internet]. 2018 Mar. 9 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];10(2):111-25. Available from: https://revedumecentro.sld.cu/index.php/edumc/article/view/1140

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018)

Section

ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL

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