Professional development program for angiologists on treatment of peripheral vascular diseases with the use of novel techniques

Abstract

Introduction: professional development is a set of educational actions linked to update knowledge and professional skills and attitudes in correspondence with the professional problems met. In Ciego de Avila, Cuba, specialists in Angiology and Vascular Surgery lack professional improvement activities in general, systematic and collective participation way, straightly performed or oriented from the University of Medical Sciences.

Objective: to design a professional development program for specialists in Angiology and Vascular Surgery on the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases with the use of novel techniques based on the professional problems met.

Method: a qualitative research with descriptive study was carried out in Angiology and Vascular Surgery specialists linked directly to the patient care service in 2020. It worked with the whole population comprised of 19 specialists. A survey was applied and descriptive statistics were used to organize and classify the quantitative indicators obtained.

Results: knowledge on how to use the novel techniques in peripheral vascular diseases treatment proved to be inadequate at a pointed level of Less adequate and Inadequate in more than 90% of studied specialists.

Conclusions: the professional development program is provided with characteristics of an open system and flexibility, which facilitates its constant redesign to adapt to the specific conditions of the contexts required.