Conocimiento del personal médico del Hospital UTPL sobre la Legislación Médica Ecuatoriana para el ejercicio profesional ymejoramiento en los servicios de salud.

Abstract

Abstract: Medicine is based on different disciplines that promote physical and mental well-being to the human being; To achieve this end, a regulation is required to regulate and control the activities of health professionals. This is a descriptive study that was developed at the UTPL Hospital with the objective of determining the knowledge about the Ecuadorian Medical Legislation for professional practice and improvement of care in health services. An ad hoc survey was applied to 66 physicians, where knowledge of medical legislation was 57% and of medical ethics 73%. Of the indicated results, both in legislation and in ethics the high percentages of knowledge obtained in the characterization coincide, with which the following results were obtained; female gender 57.89% and 54.17% respectively; age between 41-50 years with 39.48% and 43.75% respectively; according to the level of studies, the specialist with 60.53% and 60.41% correspondingly; and years worked in the institution 1-5 years with 55.26% and 56.26% in their order.