Training of Human Resources for Primary Health Care based on Reliable Professional Activities

Abstract

Training of human resources for health care is a joint task of educational and health institutions, which requires the establishment of job, professional and exit profiles of each human resource. As part of the development of competency-based education (cbe), the Entrustable Professional Activities (epa) naturalized in Mexico were created as Reliable Professional Activities (aproc), which allow the operation of competencies and make their implementation more effective. In this article the proposal of six general aproc, for the training of human resources for health is presented, which can be developed gradually so that, upon graduation, they are capable of practicing them in an integral and reliable way, they are also interprofessional and useful for any health discipline. The proposal integrates the health-disease process, universal health and primary health care. By using the general Reliable Professional Activities as a training framework, intersectoral and interdisciplinary agreements and practices could be proposed. This implies a step beyond the cbe and proposes a change in the educational paradigm that will transform primary health care (phc) according to regional goals and national needs.