Estudio de pertinencia de la carrera de Laboratorio Clínico de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí en el cantón Portoviejo, durante el periodo 2013-2018

Abstract

Ecuador as the whole world is in a change of era and in this framework, as a point of reference must also face economic, commercial, institutional, scientific, human and technological transformations. The health sector faces greater and new challenges, the same ones that are the result of modernization and globalization and undertake a harmonious, dynamic and sustainable development. In this context, health is understood as basic to all people and the role of the community acquires a transcendental importance, with which we will have to work to raise awareness of their health. The relevance of the clinical laboratory career is aimed at providing solutions to social problems in the field of health, supporting short, medium and long-term measures and helping preventive health. The objective of the Investigative project is to analyze the relevance of the Clinical Laboratory Career of the Technical University of Manabí from 2013 to 2018. The data was obtained from professionals in the UTM Clinical Laboratory career and employers of the city of Portoviejo, who were consulted through surveys and a bibliographic review was carried out. The data obtained from the survey reveal that of 162 respondents, 78% are working, of which 64% are in the public sector and 36% are in the private sector. Data from the statistical register of health resources and activities RAS 2017 reports that there are 1045 clinical laboratories nationwide in which 78.9 million determinations have been made in the same year, and 3,602 graduates work in the clinical laboratory. The methodology in this research will be carried out with an observational, exploratory, bibliographical, and descriptive study that will be carried out in an ambispective and transversal manner with a population of professionals graduated from the clinical laboratory career