Abstract:

The evaluation impact in medical training constitutes a research about the postgraduate medical training in Portugal. It implied an empirical study, a case study, in the population of fifteen specialities and common year of residency of Hospital Central de São Teotónio de Viseu.
The following tools were applied: questionnaires to residents, to tutors, and interviews with the medical services´ directors. Questionnaire validation and sources and data triangulation were made.
The type of evaluation valued by residents and tutors, residents satisfaction degree, the perception of the importance of assisting and scientific activities, were all analysed. Also the medical residency evaluation and tutors evaluation by trainee physicians and the needs of pedagogic training for senior physicians were studied.
The results subsequent to the analysis of the doctors reaction to the training, emphasizing the satisfaction degree (first level of Donald Kirkpatrick´s evaluation model), and the reflection results about the impact studied trough medians of several variables, were positive. There was some discrepancy and contradiction between the importance attached by trainees, trainers and services´ directors to the types of evaluation and the one established in the referential system evaluation.

Keywords:

evaluation, postgraduate medical training, internship, residents, tutors, self evaluation.