Continuing professional development of physicians in Uruguay: lessons from a countrywide experience.

This article describes the advancement of continuing professional development (CPD) for physicians in Uruguay and explains the motivations for a CPD system, the role of the faculty of medicine and the other stakeholders, the strategic goals, and current results, including strengths and weaknesses. The work described here had three strategic objectives: (1) initiate a CPD accreditation program, (2) train physician leaders in CPD, and (3) promote the creation of a national system for CPD. By the end of 2006, the accreditation program had 34 accredited institutions. Over a 10-year period, 150 physician leaders from different regions of the country and with different specialties had been trained in the framework and methodological issues of CPD. Legislation is expected to be introduced into parliament during 2007 for coordinating CPD efforts at a national level.

[Continuing medical professional development in Uruguay as the country faces the 21st century]. / El desarrollo profesional médico continuo en el Uruguay de cara al siglo XXI.

This paper outlines the evolution of the concept of continuing medical professional development in Uruguay, as that professional development has progressed from independent and varied efforts that were not coordinated or evaluated to a plan that is aimed at improving the quality of educational activities and programs and making them accessible to all the physicians in the country. In contrast to countries where scientific societies and medical associations preside over continuing professional development, in Uruguay the Graduate School of the School of Medicine of the University of the Republic has taken on managing and developing this process. The key objective of this process is for the Graduate School to work in conjunction with other leading players in professional development to create a national system of continuing medical professional development. This system should be interinstitutional and include both public and private entities. By having the key public institutions (the Graduate School and the Ministry of Public Health) working with private entities (medical associations, scientific societies, and health care institutions), there should be an adequate balance of interests. The national professional development system should work in the most decentralized manner possible and should be based on a network of units distributed around the entire country, but with centralized coordination. The system's interinstitutional character should ensure high technical and ethical standards as well as a balance among the governmental, commercial, professional, and university components. This system should serve as the basis for extending this activity to all health personnel in Uruguay. While the national system is still being finalized, the Graduate School has implemented a process of accrediting institutions that are involved in continuing professional medical development. The aim of this accreditation process is to improve the educational offerings for physicians and to generate practical experience that will serve the future system.

El desarrollo profesional médico continuo en el Uruguay de cara al siglo XXI / Continuing medical professional development in Uruguay as the country faces the 21st century

This paper outlines the evolution of the concept of continuing medical professional development in Uruguay, as that professional development has progressed from independent and varied efforts that were not coordinated or evaluated to a plan that is aimed at improving the quality of educational activities and programs and making them accessible to all the physicians in the country. In contrast to countries where scientific societies and medical associations preside over continuing professional development, in Uruguay the Graduate School of the School of Medicine of the University of the Republic has taken on managing and developing this process. The key objective of this process is for the Graduate School to work in conjunction with other leading players in professional development to create a national system of continuing medical professional development. This system should be interinstitutional and include both public and private entities. By having the key public institutions (the Graduate School and the Ministry of Public Health) working with private entities (medical associations, scientific societies, and health care institutions), there should be an adequate balance of interests. The national professional development system should work in the most decentralized manner possible and should be based on a network of units distributed around the entire country, but with centralized coordination. The system's interinstitutional character should ensure high technical and ethical standards as well as a balance among the governmental, commercial, professional, and university components. This system should serve as the basis for extending this activity to all health personnel in Uruguay. While the national system is still being finalized, the Graduate School has implemented a process of accrediting institutions that are involved in continuing professional medical development. The aim of this accreditation process is to improve the educational offerings for physicians and to generate practical experience that will serve the future system

Estudio multicentrico para la evaluacion de la reproducibilidad en la medicion del umbral sensorial a la distension rectal / Multicenter study for the evaluation of the reproducibility in the measurement of rectal sensorial threshold

Una forma simple para la evaluación de los umbrales sensoriales del recto ha sido la determinación, mediante la distensión escalonada con un balón intrarrectal, de los volúmenes capaces de generar deseo evacuatorio y dolor. Seis grupos pertenecientes al Círculo de la motilidad, efectuaron en 14 pacientes (7M y 7H edad: 51 DS: 10,1). estudios del volumen de deseo defecatorio (VDE) y del volumen de tolerancia máxima a la distensión rectal (VTM). Los estudios se repitieron con un intervalo no menor de 24 horas en cada uno de los sujetos. El estimado de precisión, estableció un coeficiente de variación (CV) para el VIDE de 10,23 por ciento (2 CV = 20,45 por ciento), lo que no puede ser considerada como una reproducibilidad aceptable. En cambio el CV para el VTM, fue de 1,44 por ciento (2 CV = 2,88 por ciento), lo que s'i puede ser considerada una muy buena reproducibilidad. El VTM es una variable confiable que puede permitir la discriminación sensorial noscioceptiva del recto, pudiendo ser usada para la evaluación clínica y farmacológica

Estudio multicentrico para la evaluacion de la reproducibilidad en la medicion del umbral sensorial a la distension rectal / Multicenter study for the evaluation of the reproducibility in the measurement of rectal sensorial threshold

Una forma simple para la evaluación de los umbrales sensoriales del recto ha sido la determinación, mediante la distensión escalonada con un balón intrarrectal, de los volúmenes capaces de generar deseo evacuatorio y dolor. Seis grupos pertenecientes al Círculo de la motilidad, efectuaron en 14 pacientes (7M y 7H edad: 51 DS: 10,1). estudios del volumen de deseo defecatorio (VDE) y del volumen de tolerancia máxima a la distensión rectal (VTM). Los estudios se repitieron con un intervalo no menor de 24 horas en cada uno de los sujetos. El estimado de precisión, estableció un coeficiente de variación (CV) para el VIDE de 10,23 por ciento (2 CV = 20,45 por ciento), lo que no puede ser considerada como una reproducibilidad aceptable. En cambio el CV para el VTM, fue de 1,44 por ciento (2 CV = 2,88 por ciento), lo que si puede ser considerada una muy buena reproducibilidad. El VTM es una variable confiable que puede permitir la discriminación sensorial noscioceptiva del recto, pudiendo ser usada para la evaluación clínica y farmacológica (AU)