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      La técnica de grupos focales Translated title: Focus groups technique

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          ¿Qué son los grupos focales?, ¿cuándo surgen?, ¿cuáles son sus fundamentos teóricos?, ¿cómo se lleva a cabo esta técnica?, ¿qué utilidad presta a la educación médica? Son las preguntas que guían el presente artículo, cuya finalidad es ofrecer un panorama de la técnica de grupos focales. Es una herramienta de la investigación cualitativa, que ha demostrado ser una fuente de información de enorme riqueza, para la investigación en educación médica, por su sensibilidad para indagar conocimientos, normas y valores de determinados grupos.

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          What are focus groups?, when does this technique arise?, which are their theoretical foundations?, how is this technique carried out?, what is their usefulness in medical education? These are the questions that guide the present paper, whose purpose is to offer an overview of the focus groups technique. This method has demonstrated to be a useful qualitative investigation tool for medical education research, because it is the source of enormous wealth in information, by its sensitivity to investigate knowledge, norms and values of certain groups.

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                Journal
                iem
                Investigación en educación médica
                Investigación educ. médica
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina (México, Distrito Federal, Mexico )
                2007-5057
                March 2013
                : 2
                : 5
                : 55-60
                Affiliations
                [01] México D.F. orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Facultad de Medicina orgdiv2División de Estudios de Posgrado México
                [02] México D.F. orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Facultad de Medicina orgdiv2Departamento de Investigación en Educación Médica México
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                S2007-50572013000100009 S2007-5057(13)00200500009
                10.1016/S2007-5057(13)72683-8
                86d6d29d-2df7-4267-ab83-b30610531f4e

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 16 July 2012
                : 10 September 2012
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                Metodología de investigación en educación médica

                Grupos focales,México,medical education,educación médica,Focus groups,Mexico,epistemología cualitativa,qualitative epistemology

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