Objetivo: Determinar los factores asociados a la elección de psiquiatría como especialidad médica en internos de medicina de diferentes universidades del Perú durante el año 2017. Metodología: Estudio observacional analítico transversal. Se realizó en internos de medicina de las universidades Ricardo Palma y San Juan Bautista. Se les administró tres instrumentos: El Inventario de Personalidad – Eysenck para adultos (EPI), la Escala de Valoración del Proceso Enseñanza – Aprendizaje, y el Cuestionario General de Salud Mental de Goldberg (QHG-12), los cuales servirán para el estudio de las variables personalidad, percepción del proceso enseñanza – aprendizaje del curso de psiquiatría y psicopatología respectivamente. Las variables sexo y parientes con carreras afines al área de la salud mental se estudiarán a partir de una ficha de recolección de datos. Resultados: ...

Objective: To determine the factors associated with choosing psychiatry as a specialty among medical interns in two private universities in Peru. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried-out among medical interns of Ricardo Palma and San Juan Bautista Universities. Three instruments were applied: personality inventory-Eysenck for adults, scale to evaluate the teaching-learning process and the Goldberg´s general survey of mental health to evaluate personality, perception of the teaching-learning process of the psychiatry and psychology courses. The X2 test was used to determine associations. Results: out of 233 medical interns evaluated, 35 (15.7%) said that would elect psychiatry as a specialty. The election of psychiatry was associated with a blood personality (p=0.001); extroversion (p=0.02) and being emotionally stable (p=0.039). On the other hand, the study did not rev...

Mentoring in surgery is the art of guiding a future surgeon toward specific academic and professional goals that are likely to determine career success. This mentoring requires a solid mentor-resident relationship and a mentor with certain characteristics such as: research productivity, understanding of pedagogy and the application of educational technology. The mentor in surgery is in charge of properly channeling the resident's various clinical-surgical experiences to achieve meaningful learning; likewise, experience and motivation are the main characteristics of a good mentor. The availability of the mentor is essential to foster a solid mentor-resident relationship, in order to achieve the academic and professional success of the future specialist; using not only theoretical-practical methods, but also the use of educational technology that will allow the maximum development of the m...

Mentoring in surgery is the art of guiding a future surgeon toward specific academic and professional goals that are likely to determine career success. This mentoring requires a solid mentor-resident relationship and a mentor with certain characteristics such as: research productivity, understanding of pedagogy and the application of educational technology. The mentor in surgery is in charge of properly channeling the resident's various clinical-surgical experiences to achieve meaningful learning; likewise, experience and motivation are the main characteristics of a good mentor. The availability of the mentor is essential to foster a solid mentor-resident relationship, in order to achieve the academic and professional success of the future specialist; using not only theoretical-practical methods, but also the use of educational technology that will allow the maximum development of the m...