Participation of the students of the University of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas in scientific events national students

Abstract

Introduction: health students in Las Tunas show, in the course of their university work, an active participation in student scientific events, which has been worthy of important recognitions.

Objective: to characterize the participation of students from the University of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas in national student scientific events.

Method: an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out; the universe was made up of 101 students from Las Tunas who participated in the 8 events organized by the country's medical sciences universities during the 2018-2019 academic year. The variables were studied: event, type of work, prize, assistantship and career. Descriptive statistics were applied.

Results: the event with the highest participation was the ONCOFORUM (24.8%) and the most frequent modality was the Bibliographic Review developed by 54 students. 32 works were awarded and 12.9% obtained a relevant award. 24.8% of the participants were in their second academic year. The assistantship with the highest representation was Internal Medicine (9.9%); 59.4% of the papers did not have a student assistant as the main author. Only 21 papers managed to be published.

Conclusions: it is necessary that the Stomatology, Nursing and Health Technologies careers be integrated into the scientific research movement with greater participation, as well as the design of strategies in search of an increase in scientific activity, its quality and the publication of these results in scientific journals.