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Objective: To determine the profile of medical and health sciences researchers belonging to the Carlos Monge Medrano group, qualified by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC - National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation) and registered in Registro Nacional Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica (RENACYT - National Scientific, Technological and Technological Innovation Registry) in 2022. Materials and methods: A quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study. The CTI Vitae - Hojas de vida afines a la Ciencia y Tecnología (CTI Vitae - Résumés related to Science and Technology) data sheets of 706 researchers registered in Renacyt were reviewed during September 2022. Demographic characteristics, academic background, career and scientific output were collected in a data collection sheet, which was used to create a database. Results: Out of all researchers, 65.3 % were males, 80.0 % came from Peru, and 66.7 % were fluent in two or three languages, the most frequent being Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Quechua. As for their academic background, the highest degree was a doctorate (71.2 %), the first reported program was not always strictly a health sciences program, 80.3 % pursued master's studies and 71.2 % pursued doctoral studies. In addition, 75.5 % indicated a university as their primary affiliation. Regarding their career, 38.2 % had more than 20 years of work experience, 84 % served as educator, 51.7 % had experience as research project evaluator or developer and 74.8 % received an award or distinction during their career. Moreover, 133 researchers had an h-index between 4 and 6. Furthermore, 94.5 % (667 researchers) drafted scientific papers, out of whom 41.4 % were the lead author in one to five articles and 65.9 % served as undergraduate and graduate thesis advisor. Conclusions: Medical and health sciences researchers are mostly males, are fluent in at least two languages including English, have a doctorate degree and have scientific output. Universities are the most frequent institution of affiliation reported by researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a great challenge on health research because of the pressing need to respond promptly and effectively to this crisis situation. It is important to offer a high level perspective of the main barriers and facilitators found when conducting health science studies during the COVID-19 crisis and to discuss the research initiatives suggested by global, regional or local health research authorities. Materials and methods: A systematic scoping review was carried out. A literature search was conducted in the Medline, Cochrane Library, Lilacs and Google Scholar databases. Original research studies, review and opinion articles and editorials available in full text published in Spanish, English or Portuguese between January 2020 and May 2021 were included. Two authors working independently selected the papers and collected the data. The barriers and facilitators identified were described and organized in four categories according to the literature: sociocultural, administrative, organizational and methodological. Official documents and communications from global, regional and local health and research authorities were also included. Results are presented in narrative and table form. Results: Overall, 26 documents were selected for data analysis and synthesis. The barriers most frequently mentioned in the literature include issues with access to participants, ethics committees paperwork, biological risk for the researchers, and lack of inter and intra-institutional coordination. On the other hand, the facilitators identified include the adoption of on-line solutions, cooperative work among research actors, and a more flexible informed consent process. Regarding the initiatives disseminated by health and research authorities, four strategies were identified: prioritization of research questions, cooperation and inclusion promotion, fight against infodemia, and strengthening of the methodological quality of the studies. Conclusions: Continued cooperation and interoperability among institutions, countries and disciplines to facilitate future research processes is a challenge in the context of the pandemic; similarly, it is now important to maintain open science and funding of cooperative studies when other priorities emerge. Likewise, there is an evident need to develop and sustain efficient information management systems to help with decision-making. Ongoing review of the effects of the pandemic on health research practice is needed in order to gain comprehensive insights of what we need to learn as a society from this crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. Bibliometrics is the quantitative evaluation of scientific literature. It constitutes an objective and effective method to analyze the production of scientific communities. By using statistical data, called bibliometric indicators, it provides real information regarding scientific production process. Objective. To analyze the scientific production of MedUNAB journal during the last 18 years through bibliometric and impact indicators. Methodology. Bibliographic and analytical study of MedUNAB journal. Papers issued in the period between 1998 and 2016 were included in this study. Additionally, publications of supplementary type were excluded. The sample takes 573 papers. Those data were obtained from the printed and stored up version, were systematized in Microsoft Excel®, and were exported to STATA 14® software in order to analyze them. Descriptive statistical analyses of bibliometric variables related to management, production and impact were also carried out. Results. In MedUNAB, 19 volumes and 53 issues were published, which comprise 28.31% of the original articles. It was found that the total of the students-authors was 21.42%. 7.82% of manuscripts were identified as product of a research hotbed. 92.55% of papers has a national origin and, in consequence, 97.77% of all the articles is written in Spanish. It is evidenced a statistically relevant relationship between higher h5 index and publication year (p <0.01), national geographic distribution (p <0.01), article type (p <0.01), and category in the Sistema de Indexación y Homologación de Revistas Especializadas de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (national system for indexing and homologation of specialized magazines of science, technology and innovation) (p <0.01). Conclusions. Producing original articles and theme reviews constitutes one of the bases of an adequate h5 index, which implies a panorama where quality, not quantity, takes precedence. Bibliometric indicators are an objective vision of the editorial process and allow both the feedback and the consolidation of editorial policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed at analyzing the scientific information of the Duazary Journal, between 2012 and 2016. To this end, a descriptive and cross-sectional bibliometric analysis was performed, including 98 published papers, based on the following indexes: paper typology, number of papers per year, institutional affiliation, collaboration index, topic, citations, and language. The results show that international contributions have increased since 2014 and papers classified in the areas of health sciences and clinical medicine (95%) predominate. Likewise, it was found that more than 50% of the total manuscripts correspond to original research papers, written mostly in Spanish. Therefore, increasing the number of papers published in English constitutes an opportunity for the journal improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The training and development of human capital is one of the priorities of the National Health System. This paper aims to present a reflection on the training of health professionals focusing on the competencies they need to perform successfully in their future workplaces, where they will be able to demonstrate in practice the integration between clinical care, teaching, and research. For this purpose, theoretical and empirical methods were used. It includes a logical-historical analysis of the competencies, as well as the bases for the development of the professional competencies required in the field of health. The processes for the operationalization of competency building and the sources of evidence that this process requires are proposed and described. The paper also presents a detailed analysis of the evaluation of student performance through the demonstration of attitudes, skills, and values in health settings, in addition to the procedures and sources of evidence for such evaluation. New methods and evaluation techniques are described to support the reflections on the use of competency-based training in Health Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with training given to medical students at the Technical University of Manabí, Ecuador. A research into the curriculum for the period 2012-2017 was carried out. A Likert scale was used to scale questionnaire responses given by graduates in the last three years. The need for the curriculum to be redesigned, putting emphasis on systemically teaching bioethics, was shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the human act of interpreting and its role in scientific research as an activity that generates theoretically oriented versions. It mentions some of the questioning directed toward the modern Western scientific views as well as the new epistemological perspectives that have been rising from the more critical trends of qualitative research. These acknowledge the transcendence of the researchers' interpretive commitment as they build their versions of the reality that they are studying. Likewise, the paper presents some instances of the problems that arise when conducting research in the field of health sciences. To conclude, some notes on the inescapable commitment of the researcher in his capacity of interpreter, and its multiple consequences on the construction of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The library systems in the modern era are the critical link to link on a common purpose to individuals and institutions that manage information and knowledge in a particular subject area. These systems are themselves social and open systems, are based on activities that complement and interact in space and time. The paper describes in detail the elements of network science libraries in Cuba health and how each one contributes greatly to the life cycle of information in medical libraries. Combine in a triad activity of “Traditional Library" with the “Health Library" and the use of technology to support the development of information management in each model. We propose a flow that links the document management, information management and knowledge management from INFOMED to the library network and vice versa to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of each business process and the development of a smart grid where all members form true communities of practice that integrate information and knowledge to the Virtual Health Library Latin American and Caribbean (NLM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Systematic training for in-service teachers whose main occupation is not teaching presents challenges. This paper describes a teaching training program at a university of health sciences that deals with them. Around 40 professionals who teach in undergraduate and graduate courses of the Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires take part annually in this program. In order to explain how this program faces those challenges, we perform a pedagogicaldidactic characterization of some of its "training devices". This analysis is part of didactical design research undertaken by the authors and teachers responsible for this proposal and includes both systematic record of experience in the classroom, participants written work and their personal reflections. As a result we find that these devices can be grouped into three types: to mobilize the reflection on their own conceptions, to produce alternative courses of actions and to play the whole game of teaching. From the voice of the participants, these devices, complementary and throughout the two years of the program, problematize practices uncritically reproduce, modify conceptions and improve the practice of teaching. Thus, this analysis provides conceptualizations and training proposals that could support not only the activity of those who are responsible for designing and conducting such projects, but also to the production of knowledge in the field of teacher training in university teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently students should be prepared to face several and varied work environments besides issues demanding innovative approaches and resolution skills. Then higher education must implement new teaching strategies aimed beyond a formal content learning. This paper shows the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as an approach that promotes an active learning for a comprehensive education of students in line with an ideal professional profile and target learning objectives, so we reviewed their source, development and application to teach health sciences, giving as a result some reflections for implementation in the classroom, and a final conclusion says it is a useful methodology to train professionals from various fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An Education in Health Sciences Magister program was created in 2005 in the University of Chile, Faculty of Medicine, with the purpose of expanding the professional profile of academics and health professionals. The aim of this paper is to analyze the theses presented in this program and characterize their authors. Methods: Contents and main features of the fifty-one theses presented between 2006 and 2011 were reviewed. Results: Graduates belong to different health professions: 35.3% are physicians, 41.2% come from different faculties of the University of Chile, and the rest are from other institutions. Noteworthy is the absence or scarcity of physical therapists, nutritionists, medical technologists, occupational therapists and nurses from the University of Chile. The theses themes are: clinical teaching (23.5%), students' competencies (23.5%), teachers' competencies (13.7%), and 40% raised management, assessment, learning, ethics of teaching, values, and others. The research design is mainly constructivist (96.1%). The University of Chile graduates did research more commonly in clinical teaching and students' competences. Graduates from other universities focused mainly on students' competencies, clinical teaching, teachers' competencies and learning. Conclusions. Constructivism predominates in these program theses. They include various topics related to the teaching-learning process in health careers. Noteworthy is the scarcity of theses focusing on assessment of learning and educational management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We performed a bibliometric study, searching for articles published by authors affiliated Ica, in indexed scientific journals, with the aim to know the biomedical scientific production in this Peruvian province during the decade from 1998 to 2007. We found 37 papers, most research in the public health area, ten of which were published in journals out of circulation. The most common affiliation of the authors is the faculty of Sciences of the universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga (46.9%), while the faculties of medicine and nursing are those that occur less frequently (both 2.7%). It should enhance the scientific output of institutions in health sciences in the province of Ica, requiring more training and motivation to become a publishing culture in their students and professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]