Abstract

GARRIDO-SANJUAN, J.A. et al. Learning to help to learn: The history of 10 years of resident tutors' training in Galicia. Educ. méd. [online]. 2009, vol.12, n.3, pp.157-168. ISSN 1575-1813.

Introduction. The training of the tutors of residents has been formed as one of the axes on which there relapses the quality of the formative process of the medical specialists. Aim. To describe and to analyze the characteristics of the activities of tutors' training in last 10 years in Galicia, as the basis for reflective learning for improvement. Materials and methods. A review of programs, contents, materials, characteristics and origin of the participants and content of teaching projects elaborated. Results. We describe the information of the 8 editions of the 'course of teaching and evaluation methodology for tutors'. 86 professionals achieved this training. The participants' distribution by specialties and health areas does not match the weight of those in the health care and the training systems. The specialties with more tutors participants were Familiar and Communitary Medicine, Anesthesiology and Obstetrics-Gynaecology. The 10 clinic professionals who took part as teachers were at that time in exercising their responsibility in residents' training. Among the contents of the teaching developed projects, stand out quantitatively those focused on improving the organization of rotations or to adapt programs of the specialty to the centers or units, and those devoted to the methodological improvement of learning skills. New formative assessment tools learned during the course were incorporated into many of these projects. In the final questionnaire the course was reported positively by the participants and the contents were considered useful for their professional activity. Conclusions. To know the health areas and specialties in which incorporation to this training has been smaller allows take it into account at the moment of designing future actions. Learning new formative assessment tools led to incorporate them to the final projects. The participants reported the course was useful for their professional activity.

Keywords : Educational measurement; Medical education; Medical specialties; Residents' training.

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