Archivo Médico de Camagüey (Mar 2021)

The general doctor's preparation for the attention to the patient with medical emergencies

  • Niursy Bravo-Hernández,
  • Karla Sucet Elias-Armas,
  • Reinaldo Elias-Sierra

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 2
pp. 229 – 242

Abstract

Read online

Background: medical emergencies are a frequent cause of consultation in primary health care, which is a challenge for this general doctor. Objective: to design a system of educational workshops to the preparation of the general doctor for the attention to the patient with medical emergency in the primary health care. Methods: a descriptive study with qualitative focus was carried out in the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto during the course 2019-2020. The following methods were used: analytic-synthetic, inductive-deductive, systemic focus, modeling, documental analysis, proves of acting, interviews, analysis of frequency, proves of the signs and the Delphi method. The above process of the general doctor's preparation was modeled, and were implemented the educational shops for this end, those that were validated with the cooperation of a group of professors (n=16), selected with premeditation. Results: 100% of the professors consider that the model and the proposed system of workshops possess possibilities to be applied in the pedagogic practices. Conclusions: it was modeled from a didactic perspective, this professional's preparation for the attention to the patient with medical emergencies in the primary health care, that sustain the design of a system of educational workshops for this purpose, that is viable according to the professors its application in the pedagogic practices so that it develops ways of professional performance in a medical emergency. DeCS: EMERGENCIES; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS/education; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

Keywords