The repetition: a challenge for Medical Education in Guantanamo

Abstract

A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out during the first semester of the academic year 2016/2017, with the objective of analyzing the academic results of the students repeating in this discipline, in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Guantanamo. The universe was composed of 165 students who were repeaters of the first year of the medical school, 137 students were used as sample, theoretical and empirical methods were used, a survey was applied to students with informed consent and interviewed teachers, obtaining as results, almost half of the repeating students were disapproved in the BBM discipline in the first semester of the current course, with great influence of those who had to study the 3 subjects of this discipline. The lack of motivation and a carefree attitude towards the study were the main causes to which the repeating students attribute the low academic performance. The teachers consider that there is a discrepancy between the previous knowledge that the university requires of its students and those that in fact they acquire from the preuniversity and that the student's motivation for the career is cause of the academic performance.