CARRENO DE CELIS, Ramón; SALGADO GONZALEZ, Lourdes    ALONSO PARDO, María Elina. Qualities the medical education professors should have. []. , 22, 3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-2141.

OBJECTIVE: to emphasize the personal qualities the medical education professors should have. DEVELOPMENT: reference was made to the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Health in the education of its human capital, to the significance acquired by the health sector by means of the multiple activities and programmes developed, to its institutions network, to the recognition the cuban society confers to the professors, to the formative mission of medical education, to the network of teaching centres, to the increase of the student registration from 2000 on, to the general characteristics of the body of professors, to the concepts of instructing, teaching and educating, to the international teaching collaboration of the professors, and to the political, human, social, and professional qualities the medical education professors should have. CONCLUSIONS: with regards to the body of professors, quantitative and qualitative advances have been observed, but due to the high current registration of students and to its future rise, to the increase of educational settings, to the variety of training modalities in medical sciences careers, and to the development reached in the universalization of higher medical education, it is necessary a better body of integrally trained professors with high personal qualities to achieve higher results in the training of health technicians, professionals and specialists, that allow a positive impact on the development of a service of excellence to the cuban population and to the friend countries that need and request our assistance.

: Educational centres; body of professors; medical education; training; registration and human capital.

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