Comparative analysis of certification, certification and accreditation in Latin America for the specialty of family and community medicine

Abstract

The certification and accreditation of professional competences are activities that any area of vocational training in the world puts it, and the medical Profession has not been alien to her. This study began in the V Ibero-American summit of Family Medicine in Quito Ecuador, in which a descriptive research based on the planned application of the method called analysis compared between countries or cross-national, comparative information analyzing 8 countries Latin America (Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela and Chile). The documentary analysis in each country shows that there are significant differences between countries, from Ecuador has not implemented any certification process, recertification and accreditation; Argentina has certification process; up processes certification and accreditation, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela, which have only the processes of certification and accreditation; Venezuela has not implemented the process of recertification. Mexico, Paraguay and Bolivia that have implemented the three processes. The study demonstrates how the Latin American countries have advanced concert at different rates in their certification processes, recertification and accreditation, which have different organizational structures for the same purposes.