Las aptitudes y actitudes del docente clínico: una aproximación cualitativa

Abstract

Introduction: Despite the clinical teacher roll’s transcendency, the  generation of knowledge in this field is little in our country. In This research, the clinical teacher characteristics from the students’ perspective are explored.

Methodology: Due clinical teaching multi-dimensionality, a methodological triangulation was performed; the qualitative phase results are presented in this paper. Data analysis was performed by open axial selective codification.

Results: Starting from the students discourse analysis, three major categories could be identified: 1) Having clinical teaching-suitability; 2) Clinical teacher attitudes that positively or negatively influence clinical teaching; and, 3) Context factors which intervene in the teaching-learning process within the clinical scene.

Discussion: Teachers’ suitability and attitudes identified by pupils are in accordance with that reported in the literature, except  in the case of same context factors that emergence and influence on clinical teaching and have been scarcely studied. 

Conclusions: The qualitative view allowed coming closer to the understanding and interpretationof the clinical teaching roll richness and complexity.