Contextual weaknesses in the student assistant training process

Abstract

A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in educational institutions at both levels of care in Santiago de Cuba, from October 2018 to March 2019, with the objective of determining the fundamental contextual weaknesses in the training process of student assistants. It consisted of three stages: document review, diagnosis, and validation of results. Four manifestations in the training of student assistants were identified. From a causal-valuative approach, these fundamental weaknesses were identified: an insufficient epistemological-methodological conception for axiological-professional training, inadequacies in the logical-methodological development of didactic-pedagogical interpretation, and didactic limitations among the tutors of clinical student assistants in the community context.