FERNANDEZ SACASAS, José A. Medical Education International Lecture for the XXI century "Legacy of Professor Fidel Ilizástigui to medical education for XXI century. []. , 23, 1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-2141.

Worthy professor Fidel Ilizástigui Dupuy (1924-2005), founder of Cuban Society of Professors in Health Sciences, highly-regarded as the maximal figure of medical education in our country during revolutionary period, and also of all times, gave us in his thinking and in its work, a valuable cultural legacy reflected in the theory and the practice inherent to training of health professionals in the past 40 years, based in our study plans and programs, didactic and education methods, as well as in strategies of public health development, and the education in Cuban health sciences. Focus on the main problems proposed in a contemporary way, the medical education, particularly, how direct the physician training in XXI century. The concept of education in the work as a method and predominant method of teaching-learning, with a scientific and academic character, represent the core of its educational theory, the interaction of students as the study object in real situations where the health care is the way to develop professional modes of performance, and to assimilate in essence the corresponding theoretical knowledges. To alert on the trend to undervalue the practice sphere versus academic and research components, which in combination must rest subordinated in training process.

: Medicine education; medical education; labor education; teaching-assistance-research integration.

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