Uso de fuentes de información en médicos recién graduados de Lima

Christian R. Mejia; Onice J. Caceres; Claudia A. Vera; Ayar Nizama-Vía; Walter H. Curioso; Percy Mayta-Tristán

doi:10.17843/rpmesp.2014.314.124

Authors

Christian R. Mejia Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Lima, Perú.
Onice J. Caceres Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad Ricardo Palma. Lima, Perú.
Claudia A. Vera Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad Ricardo Palma. Lima, Perú.
Ayar Nizama-Vía Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Lima, Perú.
Walter H. Curioso Dirección de Evaluación y Gestión del Conocimiento. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC), Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros del Perú. Lima, Perú.
Percy Mayta-Tristán Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Lima, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2014.314.124

Keywords:

Internet, Bibliografía, Citation databases, médicos, Perú

Abstract

In order to determine the use of information sources by recently graduated physicians of Lima, Peru in 2011, a survey was conducted among graduated physicians at seven universities. They were asked about the use of search engines in the health area during their year of medical internship [last year of medical school]. Regular use was defined as the source being used once a week or daily. For 490 respondents, regularly used information sources were SciELO, accessed by 173 (36.4%); PubMed 165 (34.4%); HINARI 117 (25.5%); UpToDate 98 (22.3%); Cochrane Library 94 (20.6%); LILACS 91 (19.8%); a hospital institutional library 70 (15.0%); LIPECS 39 (8.7%); and Peru BVS 42 (9.3%). Only a minority regularly accessed information sources related to health. It is necessary to improve capacity in the efficient use of various resources of scientific information in a continuous way and that reaches students and health professionals.