Cristhian Pérez-Villalobos

• Doctor of Educational Sciences
• Professor (Associate) at University of Concepción

En Latinoamérica en las últimas décadas la formación universitaria ha experimentado un proceso de expansión y mayor presencia de grupos anteriormente subrepresentados. Esta investigación analiza la diversidad de estudiantes universitarios en Chile, su percepción sobre la gestión inclusiva institucional y la relación con su satisfacción académica. E...

In literature, a divergence is apparent concerning the definition of educational inclusion. The study aims to describe the relationship between the diversity of actors in the university community and their perception of institutional inclusion in higher education organizations in Chile. We employed a qualitative methodology based on Grounded Theory...

Background Subjective health status (SHS) is a key indicator of population health and is influenced by various demographic and socioeconomic factors. However, there is a limited understanding of how these factors have shaped SHS in Chile over the past three decades and how health policies have addressed these determinants. This study aims to analyz...

La evaluación clínica objetiva estructurada (ECOE), es un tipo de simulación clínica que ha provocado cambios destacados en el desarrollo de habilidades para realizar entrevistas clínicas, específicamente en anamnesis y comunicación. Sin embargo, existe escasa evidencia sobre su utilización en Fonoaudiología. El propósito de este trabajo es analiza...

Natural semantic networks (NSNs) provide an approach to understanding concepts in terms of their density and strength. The objective of this study was to conceptualize mistreatment and good treatment among health science students in Chile, according to gender and training cycle. Methods: A mixed-methods study with a relational scope was conducted,...

Unlabelled: With the growing access to higher education, the university population has become increasingly heterogeneous. This situation has forced educational institutions to rethink their work. Health schools, specifically, must not only ensure the acquisition of technical-professional competencies, but also promote comprehensive training in stu...

Background: Activities in daily living (ADL) are the fundamental actions people must take to survive, care of themselves, and integrate into their daily environment. Objective: This study has two objectives: 1) to offer a new questionnaire to assess daily living activities frequency and report evidence of their psychometric properties, and 2) to d...

Introduction An important concern of research about self-regulated learning is to determine the most effective methods for its instruction in different educational settings. This also happens in foreign language learning as improving proficiency is challenging for students and self-regulation has proven effective in different educational levels. M...

Background: Objective and Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a widely used evaluation method for health profession students. In Chile, physicians OSCEs have incorporated clinical reasoning and patient-centered communication assessment since 2015. The global impact of the pandemic hindering clinical practice. Is still unknown if this context...

This study aims to identify motivational and attitude variables among Chilean young English learners from Concepción. A child-appropriate Likert scale questionnaire was distributed to 137 students from the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade of two state-run primary schools. The instrument considered five variables: attitude towards English, intrinsic motivati...

p style="text-align: justify;">Reflective practices have been recognized as a predictor of professional development because they favor teaching changes that improve the students’ learning. The expressions reflection, practice, and reflective professionals are very present in training programs, but with a diversity of meanings and interpretations. T...

Introduction:Clinical reasoning is a crucial competency for medical practice and also a complex theory that is susceptible to cognitive errors. It is usually taught with clinical cases, in clinical settings, without technologies and in a practical manner rather than from a conceptual perspective. Given the need to improve its teaching in the underg...

Resumen: Introducción: entre los médicos, los residentes parecen estar especialmente en riesgo de burnout, debido a que, además de las demandas laborales que enfrentan todos los médicos, los residentes también enfrentan altas demandas educativas. Los estudios de burnout en esta población han utilizado instrumentos que no consideran sus demandas edu...

Introduction: By 2050, older adults will constitute 16% of the world population; hence, there is an urgent demand and challenge to design solutions (products and services) that meet the needs of this age group. This study sought to analyse the needs that impact the well-being of Chilean older adults and present possible solutions through the desig...

Society challenges higher education institutions and their members to generate inclusive communities to enable the full development of all members. This study aims to analyze who is responsible for generating inclusion according to community members from a traditional Chilean University. We carried out qualitative research based on the Grounded The...

Background Universities’ training process intensely relies on face-to-face education. The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted it and forced them to reinvent their process online. But this crisis seems not to be the last we will face, and we take it as a lesson to prepare for future crises. These critical contexts are especially challenging because they i...

En las últimas décadas, las universidades han asumido un compromiso con la calidad y la equidad. Esto se ha constituido en un espacio diverso, para que las Instituciones de Educación Superior incorporen procesos de autoevaluación que permitan conocer la diversidad de la comunidad educativa y las percepciones de sus integrantes en cuanto a la inclus...

This work is a bibliographical review of the challenges of professionalism in medical training. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. By virtue of the changes in the practice of medicine during the last years, professionalism values emerge as qualit...

Abstract The challenges that Latin America faces in health are deeply related to others, such as access to clean water, the right to education, and housing. Health professionals that work in an environment where the population faces constant barriers to accessing care in the public health system or has limited resources to pay for it in a private s...

El presente artículo busca describir la evolución del proceso de investigación relacionada con el diseño de productos para adultos mayores (AM), en un contexto intra-hogar, de relación con objetos de uso cotidiano y asociados a espacios de ocupación de distinta frecuencia e intensidad. Se identifica una complejidad incremental y multidimensional co...

Introducción: Las disfunciones del piso pélvico impactan la función sexual de mujeres que la padecen. En un estudio chileno un 74% de las mujeres presentó disfunción sexual sin tener un instrumento validado para esta población. Objetivo: Evaluar las propiedades psicométricas del Pelvic Organ Prolapse Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ-...

Introduction During the last century, the inclusion of all kinds of diversity became a social imperative in all social spaces but above all in some institutions such as the educational ones. Among these, inclusion has been least studied in the tertiary education organizations. This communication proposes and evaluates the psychometric properties of...

The context in which health professionals practice is constantly evolving. The entry of new technologies in medicine has put more than one specialist to the test. It is worth noting that these technologies are rapidly updated, generating new solutions every year. While this contributes to offering quality programs for the training of new profession...

Environmental enrichment is a contextual combination of stimuli that facilitate sensory, motor, cognitive, and socioemotional skills. This neuroscientific paradigm enhances experience-dependent neural plasticity, validating it as an intervention model applicable to the educational and neuropsychiatric area in users with intellectual disabilities. T...

Background: Education is a continuous, critical, holistic process that not only intends to transmit knowledge, abilities, and skills, but also permeates attitudes, values and dispositions, becoming a decisive element to fight inequality in all its nuances. Aim: To characterize the type of power that is established in relation to gender, between...

Objective: The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student (UWES-S) has been extensively applied in different countries to assess engagement in students, but there are discrepancies about its factor structure outcomes. To analyse the factor structure of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student as construct validity evidence and reliability in medical stude...

After finishing their initial education, physicians can enter post-graduate training programs. In Chile, there are multiple medical specialties options. This review synthesizes the factors associated with the choice of specialty, according to international publications. Students coming from rural areas or small towns would tend to choose Family Med...

Background Given the relevance of social support on the mental health of older adults, having an instrument to evaluate this variable is essential for research in the area. However, mainly, having instruments with suitable evidence of their psychometric properties is critical. For this reason, this study sought to evaluate the factorial and reliabi...

The objective of the research was to describe the relationships between the institutional and contextual elements associated with the improvement of pedagogical practices in teachers of private subsidiezed schools of basic and secondary education from the Puente Alto, Chile. The research is qualitative and with a theoretical-methodological approach...

Background: Medical students have a higher prevalence of mental health problems and are more likely to drop out their studies as a result. Aim: To comprehend the academic experiences of medical students who dropped out medical studies in a university that experienced an increase in drop out by medical students and consultations to mental health se...

This article explores a new teaching strategy that seeks to integrate the initial stage of individual work of industrial design students, whose results are traditionally shared in exhibition sheets, into a volume of physical design through collaborative work, allowing them to socialise and obtain reference material. The students were grouped in tea...

Introduction Due to the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, 220 million college students in the world had to halt face-to-face teaching and migrate to what has been called Emergency Remote Teaching, using virtual media, but without adequate preparation. The way this has impacted the student body and its satisfaction with the training pro...

This article explores a new teaching strategy that seeks to merge the initial stages of industrial design students’ individual work by allowing them to socialize and obtain reference material together. The results of individual work are traditionally shared in exhibition sheets. In this proposal these results are represented, and put together throu...

Background: Alarms about mistreatment in medical education have been raised for almost 30 years. Aim: To describe the frequency of abuse reports among medical students at a university in Chile, investigating their association with age, sex, and educational level. Material and Methods: The Mistreatment by Teachers Questionnaire was applied to 264...

Background: A central aspect of professional identity is occupational commitment , which has a significant relationship with motivation and positive mental states in healthcare environments. However, it is not clear how occupational commitment is related to teaching practices in universities. Aim: To apply the Occupational Commitment Questionnaire...

Background: A central aspect of professional identity is occupational commitment, which has a significant relationship with motivation and positive mental states in healthcare environments. However, it is not clear how occupational commitment is related to teaching practices in universities. Aim: To apply the Occupational Commitment Questionnaire...

Introduction. The present study analyzes the psychometric properties of an instrument to assess university teachers' perceptions about pedagogical training in which they participate. This evaluation is carried out considering the successful training process' characteristics that facilitate learning transference to their classroom activities. Subje...

Introducción: La práctica clínica en kinesiología es un periodo formativo relevante para los estudiantes, por lo que ejercer un buen rol como tutor clínico es fundamental si queremos promover un exitoso proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje. Actualmente, la evidencia en relación a las buenas prácticas y el rol del docente clínico es escasa para las ciencia...

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue a analizar la percepción docente sobre elementos socioculturales asociados al mejoramiento de sus prácticas pedagógicas en la Región Metropolitana. Surgió del actual vacío teórico respecto a la existencia de un modelo explicativo sobre el rol que ocupa el aprendizaje por observación, modelado y trabajo c...

Objective: Describing the results of a User-Centered Design workshop using Challenge Based Learning or CBL, where students from Chilean industrial design and health degrees, developed solutions to resolve health problems among the elderly. Methods: It was a pre-experimental study; 45 university students took part in a workshop: 39 from Industria...

Background: The treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is based on corticosteroids, immunoglobulin and plasmapheresis. In our Health System, corticosteroids are commonly used as first line therapy for economic reasons and accessibility. However, the factors associated with a good response are not well known....

Introducción: Las exigencias de la educación superior requieren que los estudiantes movilicen variadas competencias que les permitan enfrentar de manera exitosa las nuevas demandas dentro y fuera del aula. En este sentido, cobra especial interés el aprendizaje autorregulado, ya que involucra la puesta en práctica de una serie de estrategias cogniti...

In Chile, writing, dialogue and observation are used to stimulate reflection among teachers in training. The lack of research on the relationship between the impact of these strategies and the development of a positive attitude toward reflection poses a problem. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze whether carrying out the Reflectiv...

Background Educational inclusion, a concept that has changed over time, is becoming relevant. It initially considered only disability and now contemplates education for all people. Educational inclusion has special relevance in health care workers’ training, who will have direct contact with heterogeneous populations, where diversity-oriented treat...

Mobile phones have caused diverging opinions regarding the change in communication patterns and the isolation among young people. However, in the case of the elderly, there are positive effects related to their use, their social activity, and their environmental awareness. This study connects these three variables beginning with the mobile telephon...

Resumen Introducción Los actuales paradigmas educativos en carreras del área de la salud están orientados hacia la práctica profesional. Esto debe reflejarse en la evaluación la práctica clínica, para lo cual la incorporación de actividades profesionales confiables parece adecuada. Por ello, en este estudio se analizó la validez, confiabilidad y p...

Introduction: there are behavioral factors that predispose to the development of excess malnutrition, and which can be key to the promotion of healthy habits. The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a questionnaire to identify risky eating behaviors in adolescents. Objective: to evaluate the psychometric properties of a questionn...

Introducción: La docencia universitaria es un fenómeno central para comprender los procesos de educación superior, y aunque los aspectos humanos, actitudinales o de personalidad del docente suelen aparecer en occidente como características centrales de un buen docente, no se dispone de instrumentos que permitan evaluar estos atributos personales de...

Simulation has been used within medical undergraduate curricula to promote the development of procedural skills, communication with patients, patients delivery, ethical reasoning and teamwork. The process of collecting, integrating and confirming information that constitute the basis of clinical reasoning necessary for medical decision making, is o...

The core idea of design is being able to improve the quality of people’s lives. This is a commendable purpose, that gives a deep sense of transcendence to the profession that deals with the daily experiences of human beings. This intention is inexorably transformed during the design process, as paying attention to the experiences of others requires...

Introducción: Los procesos de planificación del aprendizaje son altamente complejos, tanto para estudiantes como para docentes. Para decidir qué hacer en el aula, los docentes deben considerar el perfil de egreso de la carrera y los programas de la asignatura, pero no está claro cómo finalmente definen sus propósitos antes de realizar una clase. O...

Introducción. La satisfacción académica se ha examinado ampliamente en estudiantes universitarios, pero hay poca evidencia de la satisfacción de los docentes con las capacitaciones en las que participan. El presente estudio propone un cuestionario de satisfacción con las capacitaciones pedagógicas, y analiza la evidencia de su validez y fiabilidad....

a. Cirujano Dentista, Especialista en Rehabilitación Oral mención Prótesis, Magíster en Educación Médica para las Ciencias de la Salud. b. Psicólogo, Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. c. Psicólogo, Magíster en Bioestadística. d. Ingeniero Informático, Magíster en Educación Médica para las Ciencias de la Salud. Recibido el 7 de enero de 2019 | Ace...

Most design and engineering students aim "to create something that is having an effect on... people's lives" and, consequently, put much effort in learning and practicing how to design and innovate properly. Only hardly surprising, technological feasibility is one of the main drivers of new product development activities. Alas, this conflicts with...

Background: Self-efficacy refers to people's expectations about personal resources available for goal achievement. Higher self-efficacy expectations are correlated with higher academic performance. Aim: To analyze the psychometric properties of the Academic Behavior Self-Efficacy Scale (ABSES) and to describe Self-efficacy expectations of studen...

The rising elderly population is a success story of the sanitary system, but is associated with a series of challenges for fields as diverse as health, social sciences, architecture, engineering and industrial design. These challenges need to be understood beyond just aging. For this reason, this study looks to describe the daily routines of the el...

When assessing the role played by universities in scientific and professional training, it is essential to discuss not only about the contemporary scientific debate or teaching itself, but also about those representations that university teachers attribute to syntactic knowledge of the content. The aim of this work was to identify the social repres...

The aim of this study was to ascertain the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Body–Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ) for a sample of youth in Chile. Cross-sectional survey was conducted with 451 participants. A non-clinical sample of adolescents and young adults between 15 and 25 years responded the MBSRQ and a sociodemographic ques...

The new globalized scenario of interconnection, technological advances and paradigmatic changes forces reconsidering and adapting teaching/learning strategies to address highly complex global problems. In this way, for example, the elderly, a growing age group around the world with specific demands associated to their biopsychosocial changes, needs...

Objective: To evaluate the factorial structure of the questionnaire on conceptions about teaching in the domain of health careers in Chile. Design: The cross-sectional analytical study was conducted from July 2016 to December 2016 at different cities in Chile, and comprised healthcare academics in Chile. The questionnaire on conceptions about te...

A Co-creation workshop was held with the participation of elderly adults, pre-elderly adults, professionals from the industrial design area, entrepreneurs and health professionals, in which a descriptive-comparative observational methodology was assessed. The results show a diversity of defining words mentioned by the participants. A semantic weigh...

Introducción: El estudio de la didáctica en ciencias de la salud ha sido abordado principalmente a través de las innovaciones en metodologías de enseñanza y evaluación. Sin embargo, no se ha realizado una discusión teórico-empírica sobre la naturaleza de la didáctica que constituyen las diversas disciplinas en el área de la salud. Sujetos y método...

Introducción: Las prácticas pedagógicas siguen siendo un fenómeno poco investigado, pese a su relevancia para la calidad de la formación universitaria. Objetivo: Analizar la relación entre las prácticas pedagógicas percibidas por estudiantes de programas de grado en salud de una universidad de Chile y su satisfacción académica. Sujetos y métodos:...

Introducción: La docencia clínica es diferente a la docencia de aula, pues está más estrechamente vinculada al desarrollo del perfil profesional de los estudiantes de la salud y ocurre en espacios de atención al paciente. Por lo mismo, requiere competencias específicas de los tutores clínicos que guían este momento formativo. Sujetos y métodos: Se...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the factorial structure and internal consistency of SISCO inventory of academic stress in medical students.. METHODS: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the School of Medicine, University of Concepcion, Chile, in 2014, and comprised second and third year students.Exploratory factor analysis was carried out to determi...

Resumen Introducción Uno de los retos de la educación superior es formar un profesional capaz de mantener un aprendizaje permanente. Para ello, la integración de TIC mediante estrategias que involucran el aprendizaje en línea es esencial. Sin embargo, el éxito de su implementación depende de la capacidad que tenga el estudiante de autogestionar su...

The active incorporation of men in the process of childbirth is an increasingly common practice internationally. However, there are no validated instruments for Latin America. Objective: To validate an instrument to assess new fathers' experiences during childbirth in Latin America. Design: Prospective validation study. Setting: Talcahuano, C...

The present work approaches an academic experience of learning and service carried out with a group of students of Industrial Design who, in the Workshop course, used their pro- fessional competences to support the reconstruction of a com- munity of fishermen in Lirquén, Chile, after the earthquake and tsunami that took place in 2010. The objective...

The present work approaches an academic experience of learning and service carried out with a group of students of Industrial Design who, in the Workshop course, used their professional competences to support the reconstruction of a community of fishermen in Lirquén, Chile, after the earthquake and tsunami that took place in 2010. The objective is...

This study analyzes the factorial structure and reliability of the motivation and learning strategies questionnaire (MSLQ) in a sample of 409 university students between with an average age of 19.08. An Exploratory Factor Analysis was carried out using the Principal Axis Extracting method (AEP). The results identified 9 factors, three fitting the s...

Introduction: Final year Speech Therapy students are supervised by a tutor in the clinic, who plays a role of teacher without necessarily being qualified. There are not instruments available to evaluate if these tutors teaching is proven to be reliable. Objective: The aim is to evaluate the psychometric properties of "Clinic Teachers Assessment Que...

Introduction: The clinical phase of dental career involves real patients treatment under the supervision of clinical tutors, who mustn´t be just instructors of techniques, but also demonstrate skills of "to know, to know how and to know how to be". Currently, there is no specific instrument that measures teachers competencies in tutors of dentistry...

The transition period between basic clycle and clinical cycle in dental students has shown to have integration problems, been influence by career and student´s factors. Within the lasts it´s the self-efficacy, defined as the impression that one is able to perform in a certain way and to achieve certain goals. Aim: This work focuses on validate an i...

Background: Occupational identity is defined as the perception of occupational interests, abilities, goals, and values, and the structure of the meanings that link these self-perceptions to career role. We developed an occupational identity questionnaire suitable to be used with university teachers. Aim: To evaluate the psychometric properties o...

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. According to UNESCO in their 2009 World Conference on Higher Education the focus of future educational policies should be on improving access and equity in higher education, recognizing the importance of continuous work towards the inclusion of diversity and ensure growing opport...

This study proposes an analysis, identification and of attribute extraction method that can be used during the conceptual stage, based on the use of referents. Currently, the approach on the conceptual design of products in the Industrial Design degree program of the University del Bio-Bio in Chile considers the generation of a conceptual proposal...

This study proposes an analysis, identification and of attribute extraction method that can be used during the conceptual stage, based on the use of referents. Currently, the approach on the conceptual design of products in the Industrial Design degree program of the University del Bio-Bio in Chile considers the generation of a conceptual proposal...

El presente trabajo expone diversos enfoques del diseño desde los cuales pueden abordarse significativamente las problemáticas del adulto mayor. El objetivo es ilustrar la relevancia del trabajo interdisciplinar y la participación activa del usuario adulto mayor en el transcurso del diseño. Para ello, se seleccionó la metodología que ofrece el dise...

The present work exposes diverse approaches of the design with which the problems of the greater adult can be tackled signi cantly. The objective is to illustrate the relevance of the interdisciplinary work and the active participation of the older adult user in the course of design. For this purpose, the methodology o ered by the User-Centered Des...

Background: Training of innovative health professionals is necessary for the development of an effective health system in a limited resources context. However, the professionals underestimate their innovative role and receive sparse training in this issue. Meanwhile, industrial designers are trained to innovate but have a weak knowledge about healt...

Industrial design and the development of new products are key alternatives to potentiate differentiation and promote com- petitiveness of enterprises in the globalized context of the mar- kets. In this sense, results are presented of the evaluation of the conceptual, creative and collaborative development of manufacturing enterprises of the Biobio...

Background: Training of innovative health professionals is necessary for the development of an effective health system in a limited resources context. However, the professionals underestimate their innovative role and receive sparse training in this issue. Meanwhile, industrial designers are trained to innovate but have a weak knowledge about healt...

Objective: To relate engagement and academic burnout with curriculum evaluation among speech therapy students. Methods: This observational, cross-sectional study was conducted at the end of the first academic semester for each level and at the end of a theoretical class in order to ensure the maximum participation rate at the University of Conce...

Background: The widespread growth of higher education is increasing the heterogeneity of university students in terms of socioeconomic characteristics, academic story and cultural background. Medical schools are not an exception of this phenomenon. Aim: To compare the academic background and self-directed learning behavior of students who entere...

Creativity and ideation through industrial design, applied in productive contexts, can be a key for regional businesses to achieve differentiation and competitiveness in today’s glo- balized markets. The Biobio region of Chile is characterized as a manufacturing pole that has historically been oriented to production and assembly, where the level of...

Background: University teachers prioritize acquiring knowledge about their disciplines over pedagogic training. However, the latter is becoming increasingly important in the present teaching scenario. Aim: To relate pedagogic practices with pedagogic training of teachers from health care careers of public and private universities. Material and...

Background: The incorporation of the male parent into the reproductive process, becoming part of it, is a possibility to improve the long-term results in the tasks of parenting and overall development of the child. Creating an instrument to measure early bonding can be a strategy that optimizes resources and balances parental roles in both parents....