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Santos del Riego SE. Propósito profesional en la universidad, un modelo conceptual integrador: comunidad, gestión, práctica profesional, docencia e investigación, un ecosistema relacional. Rev Esp Edu Med [Internet]. 2026 Jun 5 [citado 2026 Jun 5];7(4). Disponible en: https://revistas.um.es/edumed/article/view/715751. Español, Inglés.
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[Resumen] La fragmentación de las dimensiones del trabajo académico: práctica profesional, docencia, investigación y gestión, en compartimentos sin comunicación erosiona el propósito de quienes trabajan en la universidad y limita su capacidad transformadora sobre las comunidades que les dan razón de ser. Este artículo de posicionamiento propone un modelo conceptual original, la Copa del Propósito Profesional, en el que estas dimensiones se conciben como un ecosistema relacional: la comunidad es la raíz y justificación existencial del sistema; la gestión, su arquitectura habilitante; la práctica profesional, el sustrato experiencial del que emergen la docencia y la investigación; y la política actúa como catalizador o losa del conjunto. El modelo integra el capital social, el enfoque de capacidades y los determinantes sociales de la salud. Su aplicación en las ciencias de la salud resulta especialmente pertinente, dado que el profesorado clínico opera de forma simultánea en los tres pilares que el modelo articula: la práctica asistencial, la docencia y la investigación, con el ejercicio profesional y el entorno comunitario como núcleo indisociable de su identidad académica. Bajo esta premisa, se argumenta que la integración ecológica de estas dimensiones es la condición para que el trabajo universitario trascienda su función instrumental y contribuya de forma sostenida al conocimiento, a la equidad y al desarrollo comunitario.
[Abstract] The fragmentation of the constitutive dimensions of academic work: professional practice, teaching,research and management, into non-communicating compartments erodes the sense of purpose ofuniversity professionals and limits their transformative capacity on the communities that give themmeaning. This positioning article proposes an original conceptual model, the Cup of ProfessionalPurpose, in which these dimensions are understood as a relational ecosystem: community is the rootand existential justification of the system; management is its enabling architecture; professionalpractice is the experiential substrate from which teaching and research emerge; and policy acts aseither a catalyst or adead weight on the whole. The model draws on social capital theory, thecapabilities approach, and the social determinants of health. In the health sciences, this model isparticularly relevant, given that clinical faculty operate simultaneously across the three pillars itarticulates: professional practice, teaching and research,with their professional role and the community setting as the indissociable core of their academic identity. Under this premise, it isargued that the ecological integration of these dimensions is the condition for academic work totranscend its instrumental function and contribute in a sustained way to knowledge, equity andcommunity development.
[Abstract] The fragmentation of the constitutive dimensions of academic work: professional practice, teaching,research and management, into non-communicating compartments erodes the sense of purpose ofuniversity professionals and limits their transformative capacity on the communities that give themmeaning. This positioning article proposes an original conceptual model, the Cup of ProfessionalPurpose, in which these dimensions are understood as a relational ecosystem: community is the rootand existential justification of the system; management is its enabling architecture; professionalpractice is the experiential substrate from which teaching and research emerge; and policy acts aseither a catalyst or adead weight on the whole. The model draws on social capital theory, thecapabilities approach, and the social determinants of health. In the health sciences, this model isparticularly relevant, given that clinical faculty operate simultaneously across the three pillars itarticulates: professional practice, teaching and research,with their professional role and the community setting as the indissociable core of their academic identity. Under this premise, it isargued that the ecological integration of these dimensions is the condition for academic work totranscend its instrumental function and contribute in a sustained way to knowledge, equity andcommunity development.
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