The resilience competence in medical students. An approach to its diagnosis

Abstract

Introduction: the professional training of medical students based on the complexity of the current social context, the high academic demands and the adverse situations of the care practice, in the doctor-patient relationship, the demand for sustenance based on emotional education and the development of competencies, with emphasis on resilience competence. Objective: It is aimed at evaluating the state of resilience in students of the third year of the Medicine career of the University of Medical Sciences, Camagüey. Materials and Methods: In the diagnostic study carried out, participatory observation, documentary analysis, semi-structured interview, Daniel Alarcón's test that allowed the evaluation of the resilience capacity in the students and the Tony Horsfall and Debbie Hawker questionnaire were applied, which consists of five domains, which made it possible to evaluate levels of resilience: physical, emotional, cognitive and creative, spiritual, as well as social and systemic. The study carried out is descriptive, cross-sectional, developed from a pure non-probabilistic intentional sampling. Results: The result of the diagnosis is offered, obtained through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data provided with the application of the instruments, which were synthesized by means of a triangulation. Conclusions: The study revealed the lack of knowledge and emotional management, as well as resources and ways for coping, elements that must be taken into account to structure their training from the training process of medical students, according to the foundations of the competency-based approach.