Levels of citizen competencies in university students of health sciences

• Autores: Mescua Figueroa, Augusto César, Ramos Vera, Rosario Pilar, Ramos Vera, Patricia, Ramírez Maldonado, Yenncy Petronila, Cruz Llerena, Blanca Silvia, Caycho Valencia, Felix Alberto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad César Vallejo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad César Vallejo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.ucv.edu.pe:article/312
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.ucv.edu.pe/index.php/eduser/article/view/312
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Ciudadanía; Competencias ciudadanas; Democracia; Bien común; Pensamiento crítico; Citizenship; Citizenship skills; Democracy; Common good; Critical thinking

Professional training should aim to integrate educational processes that include the development of technical skills and citizen competencies in the perspective of professional practice that leads to acting in favor of the common good and public good, from the perspective of citizen duties and rights. The research aimed to determine the levels and predominance of citizenship competencies in university students of health sciences. It included the descriptive, non-experimental design and cross-sectional level. The sample was 210 Peruvian health sciences students from Metropolitan Lima. A questionnaire of multiple questions and a Likert scale was applied. As a result, it was identified that more than half of the students were at a medium level and the others at a high or low level. It was concluded that emotional skills are the most predominant and that communication, cognitive (critical thinking) and citizenship skills (knowledge of duties and rights of citizens) require further development and treatment in the curricular programs of professional training.