Abstract

CARRENO DE CELIS, Ramón; SALGADO GONZALEZ, Lourdes  and  FERNANDEZ OLIVA, Berta. A half century of revolutionary higher medical education (1959-2009). Educ Med Super [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.3, pp. 418-429. ISSN 0864-2141.

The more significant facts affecting the development of the revolutionary higher medical education at its half century of existence, concerning to the historical trajectory, mission, health sector changes, physicians exodus, purge of professors and students, university reform, teaching hospital integration, decentralization of the physicians training, ban from to exert the private medicine and stomatology, university scholarships plan, training centers framework, pregraduate and postgraduate training, staff, careers, study plans and programs, foreign students training, new formative projects, medical education abroad, health teaching universalization, graduates, working location, blockade effects and the special period as well as the confronted adversities, but despite these obstacles the achievements and the results are significant.

Keywords : Revolutionary higher medical education; teaching centers; half century; health system; health; health professionals.

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