Objetivo: describir la disponibilidad de los cirujanos cardiovasculares pediátricos e identificar los factores que influyen en la situación de la certificación de esta subespecialidad en el Perú.Materiales y métodos: estudio transversal y descriptivo. Se realizó un muestreo por bola de nieve discriminatorio exponencial partiendo de los cirujanos cardiovasculares pediátricos que trabajan en el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular hacia abril, 2019. Se solicitó su participación y posteriormente se aplicaron encuestas virtuales. Los datos recolectados de las preguntas cerradas se procesaron con estadísticos descriptivos y los de las preguntas abiertas, en base a su sistematización, orden y relación, obteniéndose así las conclusiones. Resultados: se encuestó a 20 cirujanos. De ellos, 5 refirieron haber estudiado la subespecialidad, teniendo como principales motivaciones una rotac...

Objective: to describe availability of pediatric cardiovascular surgeons and to identify factors influencing accreditation for this specialty in Peru. Materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional and descriptive study. A discriminating exponential snowball sampling procedure was performed in pediatric cardiovascular surgeons working in the Peruvian National Cardiovascular Institute. This was carried out in April 2019. Their participation was requested and virtual surveys were carried out. Data collected from closed questions were processed using descriptive statistics. Data from open questions were processed on the basis of their systematization, order, and relationship, so conclusions could be drawn. Results: twenty surgeons were surveyed. Of them, 5 reported having had training for their subspecialty, and they declared their main motivation was having undergone a training period du...

Objective: to describe availability of pediatric cardiovascular surgeons and to identify factors influencing accreditation for this specialty in Peru. Materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional and descriptive study. A discriminating exponential snowball sampling procedure was performed in pediatric cardiovascular surgeons working in the Peruvian National Cardiovascular Institute. This was carried out in April 2019. Their participation was requested and virtual surveys were carried out. Data collected from closed questions were processed using descriptive statistics. Data from open questions were processed on the basis of their systematization, order, and relationship, so conclusions could be drawn. Results: twenty surgeons were surveyed. Of them, 5 reported having had training for their subspecialty, and they declared their main motivation was having undergone a training period du...

Background: In the quest for excellence in medical education, regulations and accreditation standards emerge as beacons guiding the path to higher quality and competency at the national level. This study investigates their impact on changes in national knowledge examination performance among Peruvian medical trainees. Methods: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach was employed, beginning with a quantitative longitudinal analysis of data from the Peruvian Association for Medical Education database covering 45 medical schools from 2005 to 2023. Descriptive statistics were used to examine data trends; mixed-effects regression models were utilized to account for the nested structure of the data, allowing for a nuanced understanding of the standards’ impact over time and across different institutional contexts. To complement the quantitative findings, qualitative interviews were c...

Los trasplantes cardíacos son el tratamiento de elección para pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca severa refractaria a tratamiento médico. Al 2020, el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular “Carlos Alberto Peschiera Carrillo” es el único centro que realiza estos procedimientos en el Perú. Sin embargo, no hay mucha producción científica sobre estos y resulta esencial la elaboración de un perfil clínico-quirúrgico de estos pacientes. Por ello, investigación realizada describe las características clínico-quirúrgicas de los trasplantes cardíacos en el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular “Carlos Alberto Peschiera Carrillo” 1993 - 2019. Realiza un estudio observacional, descriptivo, transversal y retrospectivo. La población fue el total de trasplantes cardíacos realizados en el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular “Carlos Alberto Peschiera Carrillo” desde 1993 al 2019, con...

Introduction. There are national and international reports of the presence of stress in medical students, higher than in other professional careers; likewise, the presence of stress is related to low academic performance. Objective. To determine if there is an association between violence, stress and the academic performance of the first and sixth year medical students of the National University of San Marcos. Methods. It was surveyed 109 (47%) students of the 6th year, and 122 (53%) students of the 1st year. The perception of violence and stress were determined with validated instruments; academic performance was determined by the annual weighted average. The Mann Whitney U test was used to establish differences between the means of the quantitative variables. To establish the correlation between the study variables, the Spearman correlation coefficient was used. Values p <0,05 were ...

Introduction. Aggressive and discriminatory behavior affects physical and mental health even on those who commit them. Students are subjected to stress, which increases the risk of those behaviors and makes them likely to suffer from its consequences. On the other hand, the Medical School aims to educate medical professionals integrally, with abilities to avoid violence and live peacefully. That is why the interest of describing this problem in Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru’s Medical School. Objective. To address violence in students from the sixth year of Human Medicine who had not participated in the Integral Formation Program in UNMSM. Design: Descriptive, transversal study. Setting. "Instituto Nacional del Niño", Lima, Peru, teaching hospital. Participants. Sample consisted in 93 (63%) students enrolled in the sixth year of the Faculty of Medicine who took t...