Introduction:

the technologist in Health Rehabilitation needs to improve himself in order to increase his knowledge in teaching and research to improve professional performance.

Objective:

to develop a strategy aimed at increasing the participation of technologists in Health Rehabilitation in actions aimed at their professional development.

Method:

a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with 25 Technologists in Health Rehabilitation of the University of Medical Sciences of Guantanamo in the period 2016-2017.

Results:

100.0% of the technologists expressed needs for improvement regarding the contents of Research Methodology and 92.0% regarding the contents of Pedagogy. A strategy was designed and implemented to solve these needs that allowed 92.0% to receive pedagogical preparation and 96.0% to receive preparation on Research Methodology.

Conclusions:

it is concluded that the strategy that was designed and implemented makes it possible to increase the participation of technicians in Health Rehabilitation in actions aimed at their professional development, which means a contribution to a qualitatively superior transformation in their professional performance in teaching and research functions.

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