Residencia médica: el camino hacia la confección de un marco de referencia en neurocirugía

Abstract

Medical residences form the basis of postgraduate medical education and is the ideal method that allows the passage of the graduate doctor to the general or specialized doctor. From the association we consider that it is essential to establishg valid and reliable educational standards, absolutely necessary for postgraduate training. After a work of several months, which included a census and a survey of residences, the final version of the framework on medical residence in the specialty Neurosurgery was reached. In Argentine we censure, between public and private, 62 residency programs. The survey sought to design a map of the residences, relieving hard data and general characteristics through a survey designed ad hoc. The need to have a theoretical basis that regulates and organizes the pedagogical development of medical residences, determined the design and implementation of a work procedure based on methodological and content agreements, whos final product was the reference framework of the residence. Its reading and analysis will propitiate proposals and actions that promote a self-evaluation -always necessary and beneficial- and, consequently, to improve the quality of the training that we grant and receive the future specialists in Neurosurgery.