Competencias socioemocionales y profesionales en el desempeño y en la inserción laboral de las/os graduadas/os de la Carrera de Odontología de la Universidad Nacional de Río Negro

Abstract

The topic of this final work is socio-emotional and profesional Competences in the development and employment insertion of the graduates of the Dentistry carrer from the National University of Rio Negro, whose general objective is: Determinate the socio-emotional and profesional competences in the development and employment insertion of the graduates of the Dentistry carrer from the National University of Rio Negro. The principal theorical focuses that sustent the approaching of the studied topic were presented by Lezcano D., contributors of National University of La Plata, Argentina, Blanco Aspiazu and collaboratos of the Medical Ciencie University of La Habana, Cuba. This work submits a research format, which is composed of three chapters. First chapter contains the theoretical framework, which is composed of four subchapters. First subchapter is refered to socio-emotional competences, second one alludes to profesional competences and the the third informs about competency assessments. The fourth subchapter addresses national bibliographical production, which is scarce, and that is why not only it is decided to broaden the theoretical framework but also to product Latin American bibliography. Second chapter describes the methodological approach and the type of study, which is mixed descriptive (qualitative and quantitative) with a qualitative preponderance. This work is qualitative because it collects data through narratives and self-perception and takes an interpretative approach to understanding reality. It is descriptive because it consists of detailing phenomena, situations, contexts and events, i.e. individualising them. The context, participants or population of study is described. Methodological procedures and steps are also described: design of the action proposal, implementation of the intervention, evaluation of the action proposal, conclusions and final report. Likewise, the working hypothesis, the variables or categories of analysis studied, a detailed description of the Google questionnaires and the semi-structured interviews used as data collection instruments are also described. Chapter 3 details and discusses the results of the research, which are product of the fulfilment of the specific objectives. This section presents the results obtained from the questionnaires and the semi-structured interviews and relates them to the categories analysed, which are the following: Strengths, Weaknesses and Improvement proposals. As a conclusion to this research, the results obtained made it possible to determine, from the point of view of the performance of professional competencies, shortcomings in certain subjects and specialities, but also to recognise strengths such as comprehensive training, personalised treatment planning and the clinical criteria developed. From the point of view of the performance of socio-emotional competences, the valuing of the dentist/patient relationship was identified as a strength and certain teacher-student relationships as weaknesses. In the same way, proposals for improvements to address the solutions were also determined.