Abstract:

The following research seeks to understand how the transfer processes are developed from the competencies that are learned during the professional training. This is investigated in students in their final year of medical school at a private university in metropolitan Lima, Peru. Due to the complexity of the construct studied, this research is a post qualitative study. In that sense, this will be done from the students’ perspectives. To achieve this, we have deconstructed what has been understood so far about transference. For this purpose, we have taken the position of transcendental phenomenology and we have reworked what is understood by transfer from organizational behavior and the educational sciences. Therefore, we understand transference as a process of apprehension of competence, which is carried out in a complex, integral, and cyclical mode. In addition, it is a way to understand and deepen in a complex way a competence. This involves flexibility, redesign, and selection as a metacritical process of knowledge. In addition, it entails decision-making and independence. With the deconstruction that has been developing, we have proceeded to elaborate an interview that allows us to identify how the transfer is developed and in which moments it is activated in the students. The students investigated were in their final year of medical school, and, in the interview, they detailed their experiences throughout their professional training concerning the resources and possibilities they had to achieve transferring competencies while learning in coursework and their pre-professional assignments. As a result, we found that a dialogic process between teacher and student is transcendental to achieve a complete transfer of knowledge. Thus, the students who developed a complex transfer process were able to relate their voices to the voice of their teachers, either as a model to follow or as a type that should not be repeated or imitated. Finally, it is important to mention that they were able to transmit what they learned to new and different scenarios related to their professional practice.

Keywords:

Transference, competencies, posqualitative study, deconstruction.