Self-perception of competences in clinical practice among recently graduated physicians from Lima, Peru.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the self-perception of basic competencies in clinical practice and evaluate their associated factors, among recently graduated physicians from Lima, Peru.

Methods

Cross-sectional study. We evaluated the self-perception of the competencies in recently graduated physicians of four dimensions of the Tuning Project. Each item had six possible responses on a Likert scale: "non-existent" (1 point), "insufficient" (2 points), "sufficient" (3 points), "good" (4 points), "very good" (5 points) and "excellent" (6 points). To evaluate associated factors of the average scores for each dimension, we used linear regressions with the bootstrap method.

Results

We analyzed data from 425 (54.9% were between 22 and 25 years old), which represent 31.1% of all physic

SUBMITTER: Nieto-Gutierrez W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7680771 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature