Percepción y valoración de la experiencia laboral durante las prácticas preprofesionales en la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Pre-professional internships are an indispensable transit procedure for the adequate development and approach to the real work environment of students about to complete their university studies, and thus be able to successfully become a future professional in their chosen career. Despite their extensive propagation, labor practices include a limited counseling regarding the academic and psychoemotional follow-up of the factors influencing the level of performance, challenges faced and/or difficulties encountered during their realization. For this reason, this research has the objective of evaluating and studying, in a theoretical way and through the applied statistical tool "Wilcoxon W-test", the degree of satisfaction, level of positive impact, development of strengths, application of knowledge acquired during their studies or previous experiences, and personal and professional utilities of the pre-professional practices of the graduated students of the Veterinary Medicine career; emphasizing, likewise, the analysis of the significant statistical difference that could be carried out during the periods before and post-pandemic due to different key factors that this represented, in order to have a broad and detailed knowledge of what was the perception and assessment of the students of Veterinary Medicine, in the different academic promotions from 2014 to 2022, of the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil.