Background: It is necessary to establish bases for research in medical education at San Fernando Faculty of Medicine. Identification of investigators working in medical education latu sensu in health educational research is expected, as well as research lines and methods used. Objectives: To identify investigators dedicated to education research in health, and to identify lines of research and main methodologic strategies. Design: Bibliography review of articles y abstracts on health education. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Investigators in health education. Methods: Participating units were the Faculty of Medicine’s thirteen academic departments and six institutes. Main outcome measures: Lines of medical research, investigators, methods, types of publication. Results: Main research lines in medical education were: Tea...

Introduction: Previous research has shown lack of articulation between university based research and research priorities as defined by the national health authority. Objectives: To identify explanatory factors for lack of articulation between university research activities and knowledge needs as defined by users. Design: Qualitative case study. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima, Peru. Participants: Informants from both the university and the national health authority. Methods: The study was based in semi structured interviews to key informants, from the university and the national health authority. Main outcome measures: Lack of articulation explanatory factors. Results: Explanatory factors identified were: a) Research funding culture depending on own university limited resources, and not allowing proposed nationwide studies such as thos...

Mr. Editor In the article by Franco Romaní and collaborators, on the scientific production referred to the national agendas of research in Peru 2011-2014 (1), it is concluded that the research area in Human Resources in Health is the least studied area, with only 4 original articles published, that is, 1.8% of the articles identified in the study period.

We explore the Health Sector Reform process form a systemic viewpoint, in particular with a human resources perspective. We consider we have to make visible the human resources space as a key component of health sector reform, not only from a quantitative understanding, such as the need of medical specialists to provide health care, but also as the thinking block in the health system, so the quality, training, knowledge and expertise of these core resources, will be reflected in the quality of health sector reform proposals. Thus, we propose a dynamic flow among inception, implementation and deployment of health reform proposals, human resources development, and proposals development nuclei. This relationship is seen as a circular link, whereby balances and reinforcements in any of the three spaces determines changes in the other two; therefore, the proposed reform, there will be only fe...

Objective. To identify the relationship between organizational factors and individual factors of e-learning, with the use of it for the purposes of continued education of health professionals, in public and private hospitals. Methods. A non-experimental research has been developed, with a correlational scope, with a sample of 134 health professionals of one private and two public hospitals in Lima, Peru. Results. The use of e-learning for continued education is high (over 70%), with an average of 105 daily minutes of access to training content, and that its main modalities are video conferences and online courses. Our resuts suggest that invididual factors are more important than organizational factors as determinants of e-learning for continued education purposes. Conclusions. There is a direct relationship between the use of e-learning resources ...

A qualitative study designed for identifying factors influencing in publications produced by professors in San Marcos University Medical School. The researchers performed semi-structured interviews in a group of professors of the aforementioned school identified as significantly producing research and review papers. These persons were identified using the 2010 Database of the Research Council in San Marcos University. We identified the following factors facilitating publications: liaisons with foreign institutions outside Peru, discipline, training, focusing, multidisciplinary interactions, team building; and blocking factors identified were as follows: academic load and lack of resources for editorial activities. In a second level for analysis, we concluded that these are the circumstances reinforcing facilitating factors: participation in research networks and specialization in researc...

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La presente tesis aborda desde un modelo de investigación cualitativo, el examen de los factores asociados a la eficacia de la gestión de la cooperación en las Facultades de la UNMSM, con cuatro objetivos específicos: Identificar los factores facilitadores de la captación de los recursos de cooperación. Identificar los factores bloqueadores de la captación de los recursos de cooperación. Identificar los procesos reforzadores de los factores facilitadores de la captación de los recursos de cooperación. Identificar los procesos reforzadores de los factores bloqueadores de la captación de los recursos de cooperación. Para ello se asume como universo a las 20 Facultades, y se empieza por identificar siete indicadores que reflejan las tres dimensiones del quehacer universitario, desde la perspectiva de la cooperación. Sobre la base de estos siete criterios se asume una primera fa...

A qualitative study designed for identifying factors influencing in publications produced by professors in San Marcos University Medical School. The researchers performed semi-structured interviews in a group of professors of the aforementioned school identified as significantly producing research and review papers. These persons were identified using the 2010 Database of the Research Council in San Marcos University. We identified the following factors facilitating publications: liaisons with foreign institutions outside Peru, discipline, training, focusing, multidisciplinary interactions, team building; and blocking factors identified were as follows: academic load and lack of resources for editorial activities. In a second level for analysis, we concluded that these are the circumstances reinforcing facilitating factors: participation in research networks and specialization in researc...

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La simulación es empleada como un método cada vez más frecuente en la formación médica, tanto en la etapa clínica como en la preclínica. En este caso, nos interesó explorar su empleo en una vivencia profesional diseñada para alumnos del primer semestre de estudios, con el objetivo de identificar sus reacciones a una entrevista clínica simulada como desencadenante de reflexiones sobre el ser médico. En el primer ciclo de la Escuela de Medicina Humana, y como parte de un curso de profesionalismo médico, se programó a todos los estudiantes a una consulta médica ambulatoria simulada en la que podían jugar los roles de médico o paciente y posteriormente se les sometió a una encuesta. Esta población incluye a 18,7 % de alumnos con una segunda carrera, siendo la primera de otras ciencias de la salud. La experiencia fue calificada como satisfactoria en el 90,6 %; 97,4 % respond...

Introduction.There are additional elements related to cardiovascular risk, particularly in the active population, such as the type of work shift and abdominal perimeter. Objetive: It was to determine the relationship between cardiovascular risk and abdominal perimeter in workers with atypical working hours who work at high altitudes in Peru. Materials and Methods: This study had a quantitative approach, with a cross-sectional descriptive methodological design. The population consisted of 151 occupational medical examinations of workers from a public institution in the city of Cusco. The technique was data collection from the review of occupational medical examinations and the instrument was designed from the ACC/AHA ASCVD RISK scale, clinical and sociodemographic data were also included in this instrument, it was validated by expert judgment. Results: 72.2% of the workers presented low c...

La simulación es empleada como un método cada vez más frecuente en la formación médica, tanto en la etapa clínica como en la preclínica. En este caso, nos interesó explorar su empleo en una vivencia profesional diseñada para alumnos del primer semestre de estudios, con el objetivo de identificar sus reacciones a una entrevista clínica simulada como desencadenante de reflexiones sobre el ser médico. En el primer ciclo de la Escuela de Medicina Humana, y como parte de un curso de profesionalismo médico, se programó a todos los estudiantes a una consulta médica ambulatoria simulada en la que podían jugar los roles de médico o paciente y posteriormente se les sometió a una encuesta. Esta población incluye a 18,7 % de alumnos con una segunda carrera, siendo la primera de otras ciencias de la salud. La experiencia fue calificada como satisfactoria en el 90,6 %; 97,4 % respond...

Objective: To characterize the publications on Health Systems produced in Peru between 2000-2020. Study: A bibliometric study of the scientific publications on health systems in Peru was carried out in journals indexed in the PubMed and SciELO databases. Narrative reviews, original articles with cross-sectional, and retrospective or prospective designs, were included. Collaboration networks of authors and institutions were described. Findings: 136 bibliographic units were identified. The institutions with the highest production were Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (24.52%), the Ministry of Health (14.19%) and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (7.74%). The most studied component was the provision of services (50%), with descriptive designs. 65.44% were published between 2015-2020 and 35.29% in the Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública. 51.47% of the ar...

Introduction. The objective of the study is to contribute with a new perspective about the peruvian health system, based on the production of public goods in health. Methods. For this purpose, we calculated the per capita average of health encounters produced by the peruvian health system at the national, regional and provincial levels. Information was collected on the number of medical encounters, registered at the open data sources of the National Health Superintendence (SUSALUD), the Public Health Insurance (SIS), and the Health Social Insurance (EsSalud) for year 2019. Results. The national average of medical encounters per capita was 1.8, with a great variability of values at the regional level (2.9 to 0.8). In the case of the provinces, a first upper quartile was found, which group 50 provinces with values between 5.52 and 1.75 and concentrate 55% of the Peruvian population and 71....

Introduction: Medical students are poorly prepared in health services management due to the use of traditional teaching methods, developed in theoretical environments with poor active participation. Virtual simulated training is an innovative alternative in the learning process. Objective: This study aimed to determine the knowledge improvement in managerial decision-making amongst medical students at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru, after a virtual simulated training. Methods: A before-after cross-sectional design was undertaken among final year medical students to measure their improvement in management knowledge. The simulation methodology was used as a component of the Medical Externship clinical course in which the administrative dimension of a clinical case such as hypoacusis was considered. Results: Of the 79 participants, 48 (60.8%) were female and the median...

Objective. To analyze the changes in the density of human resources in health (DHRH), in the Ministry of Health at the regional and provincial level in Peru, in order to describe the response of the health system on this component during the COVID-19 epidemic. Methods. Descriptivestudy based on the analysis of the INFORHUS national database of the Ministry of Health. To calculate the DHRH, the health personnel registered in the INFORHUS database were considered as the numerator and the population assigned to the Seguro Integral de Salud - SIS as the denominator. Health personnel who died and were still registered, and personnel diagnosed with COVID-19 by rapid or molecular testing during the months considered in the analysis, were excluded. The percentage changes of DHRH between the months of april to august 2020 were analyzed at the regional and provincial level in Peru. Results. In the...