Promotion of the specialty of Comprehensive General Stomatology during the course of COVID-19

Abstract

A retrospective longitudinal descriptive observational study was carried out at the University of Medical Sciences of the Sancti Spíritus province of the results of the state exams of the April-May and October-November 2020 calls, with the aim of describing the results of the state exams of the specialty of Comprehensive General Stomatology in times of pandemic in Sancti Spíritus. The study universe consisted of 12 residents examined in the April-May 2020 call and 49 in the October-November 2020 call, with prior consent to carry out the examination in the agreed ways in relation to the hygienic-epidemiological situation that it was happening at the moment. The exams were carried out in the accredited educational assistance services of the province. The variables were studied: promotion, place of origin of residents and call according to academic years. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, to study the various bibliographies consulted; inductive-deductive, for the assessment of the literature reviewed and the correct interpretation of the data and empirical methods such as the review of documents.