Abstract

VELA VALDES, Juan  and  FERNANDEZ SACASAS, José. Public health subjects present in the formative policies of the medical career. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.3, pp. 383-392. ISSN 0864-3466.

Introduction: at the request of PAHO, a research study was conducted in 1994 on the public health disciplines included in the medical career curriculum in Cuba. A number of problems that had to be addressed and of recommendations that had to be improved were then identified. Objectives: to respond to these problems and recommendations so as to provide relevant information to the faculties and to academic managers on the upgraded curriculum of the medical career in 2010. Methods: a qualitative study was made to compare the level of participation of the set of public health subjects in the upgraded curriculum of the medical studies in 2010, taking the 1985 program as a basis. The results of the 1994 research study at the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana and the 2010 upgraded medical curriculum were both considered. Concordance and difference analysis techniques were applied to the gathered information. Results: the organization patterns of teaching were changed by increasing the number of contents, the number of hours devoted to education at work and of practice hours, among others. Integrated general medicine was the agglutinating discipline in the whole curriculum. Conclusions: the identified restrictions in the 1994 research work are eliminate in the improved 2010 curriculum. It is required that the results of this research study be taken into account in the curricular evaluations of the medical career in the future.

Keywords : public health; formative policy; curricula; evaluation; Cuba.

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