Introduction:

The School of Medicine at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana has been implementing a competency-based curriculum to guarantee the holistic training of general practitioners from a pedagogical strategy called Integrative Activity (IA), which seeks to encourage knowledge, skills, and abilities for the development of competencies of doctors in training.

Objective:

To explore the perceptions and experiences of students, faculty, and school board of directors of developing competencies from the implementation of IA.

Method:

A descriptive and interpretive qualitative method was used from interviews and focus groups with students, faculty, and the board of directors. The integrative activity is constituted as a learning strategy that allows the development of competencies through a specific educational process that transforms the pedagogical scenario into a space of joint construction of knowledge from group work.

Conclusions:

The results show that although the definition of competencies is not unanimous among the actors, the IA would be contributing to the formation of these from the competency-based model proposed by Miller.

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