Improvement strategy for Imaging specialists on the Imaging spectrum of Covid 19 and its consequences

Abstract

Introduction: each era exhibits problems specific to its time that require the action of its professionals, with scientific thinking, for their solution.

Objective: to design a Professional Improvement Strategy in order to contribute to the improvement of the performance of medical specialists in Imaging on the imaging spectrum of the patient with COVID-19 and its consequences, in the province of Pinar del Río.

Methods: research methods structured in stages were used: theoretical foundation, design, evaluation of the strategy. The diagnosis in previous stages was taken into account, of inadequacies in the exercise of their performance before Covid 19 and its consequences (population of 81 professionals) with inclusion criteria; Theoretical and empirical methods were used.

Results: the results of the designed professional development strategy established determining relationships, articulating development actions, offered internal and external logical coherence to the Medical Education Sciences in the area of permanent and continued training, with systematic updating of the contents, integrated prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, risk stratification and complications by the specialist.

Conclusions: the development strategy has an adequate structure, objectives and system of actions declared by phases and moments that ensure viability, due to its comprehensive and dynamic nature; correspondence with the assumed foundations that was evidenced with the transformation of the level of professionals, achieved with the impact that translated the organizational forms of teaching designed, with optimal quality of radiological reports and the improvement of the professional performance of Imaging achieved.