Concepción teórico-metodológica para el monitoreo y evaluación del impacto del posgrado en ciencias médicas

Background: assessing the impact of postgraduate education is essential for quality management of programs from a scientific perspective. Objective: To describe a theoretical and methodological framework for monitoring and evaluating postgraduate medical programs that ensures quality management of postgraduate training. Methods: qualitative research was conducted to distinguish the monitoring and evaluation processes, their interrelationships, and integration. Theoretical methods were employed, including analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, abstract-to-concrete, and systems modeling approaches. Empirical methods were used for data collection and processing. The results were triangulated across sources, confirming the need for the proposed framework. Specialists were consulted for their evaluation. Results: the theoretical and methodological framework for monitoring and evaluating the impact of postgraduate programs at medical science universities takes into account the differences and complementarity between monitoring and evaluation processes, as well as their practical implementation. Among its distinctive features is the flexibility that allows a program to adopt modalities and methods deemed appropriate by the academic committee. Conclusions: the theoretical and methodological framework provides impact measurement with a rigorous assessment of quality by gathering relevant information on the professional and social spheres involved; it constitutes an essential reference for refining the improvement plans for each iteration of the program.