[Effects of the professional profile of family and community medicine tutors on residents' training].
OBJECTIVE
To determine what variables concerning tutors are associated with the results of the evaluations of their third-year residents.


METHODS
Crossover observational study.


METHODS
All the teaching health centres in the province of Valencia in 1994.


METHODS
All the tutors and third-year residents, 78 people in all.


RESULTS
The information was gathered by original questionnaires, previously validated and capable of contrasting the same information. There was high tutor-resident concordance (0.51-0.65) for teaching activities, supervision of the resident and integration in the Primary Care team (IPCT). There was excellent concordance (0.64-0.92) between residents and tutors for sessions and the resident's research. The variables which differentiated tutors and residents were, according to the ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis and Chi-squared tests: clinical demand, sessions, number of scientific journals read, number of sessions supervising residents, satisfaction with the resident and IPCT. With the agglomerative iterative method in cluster analysis, four groups of residents were formed, with the significant variables (p < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
IPCT and clinical activity were the variables which most differentiated tutors from groups of residents.
Pelayo Alvarez
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Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria de Valencia, Centro de Salud Fuente San Luis.
Gutiérrez Sigler
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Albert Ros
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D000328:Adult; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000193:education*; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008611:Mentors; D013030:Spain
Influencia del perfil profesional de tutores de medicina familiar y comunitaria en la formación de residentes.