title: [Evaluating the professors visits on the care of patients with knee osteoarthrosis].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  visits of professors is an educational strategy (ES) that allow the exchange of clinical experience between specialists and physicians of first contact and let to both reconsider their daily work, incorporate useful tools to promote learning, and implement strategies to solve problems in clinical work. The aim was to describe an ES carried out in a program of knee osteoarthritis, differentiating clinical competence from professional performance.
  
  
  METHODS
  ten family physicians and an orthopaedic specialist participated. The ES took place by assessing competence in clinical cases; clinical performance with an observation guide as well as reviewing grounds for transfers to a second level.
  
  
  RESULTS
  competence skills had found an initial media of 25 and at the end of 38 (p=0.025). On the observation guide a middle initial of 29 and final 91; finally, in submission evaluation a 50 % was adequate at the beginning of the ES with a 100 % at the end.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  development in doctors' clinical competence skill was observed and a better performance in medical care.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigación Educativa y Formación Docente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Querétaro, México. jorge.oseguera.r@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oseguera-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martínez-López
authors.forename: Yaneth
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Díaz-Torres
authors.forename: Santiago A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gómez-Rocha
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carriles-Ortiz
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Gálvez
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000628:therapy*; D011996:Records