The researching abilities in the Medicine curriculum. A necessary diagnostic valuation

Abstract

A qualitative study was carried out in order to characterize the formation of research abilities of the General Doctor at the Medicine Faculty of the Medical Sciences University in Villa Clara.  The analysis units taken into consideration were: plan of studies, subjects and disciplines programs, criteria of professors and students about research abilities. A documentary analysis of macro and microcurriculum was performed as well as surveys applied to directives, experienced professors, students and FEU leaders, in a saturation sampling. In order to obtain information from different perspectives a methodological triangulation was carried out. There was an existing contradiction between what was declared in the macrocurriculum for this function and how the microcurriculum conceives it. The deficient abilities in the research-scientific formation were: incorrect formulation of the scientific problem, objectives and hypotheses, and in a lesser degree those related to the scientific communication of the results.