Introduction:

The growing increase in the rate of systemic diseases and their relationship with some ophthalmologic manifestations, imposes a challenge to the practice of medicine in Primary Health Care and to Cuban Higher Medical Education at present.

Objective:

To increase the methodological preparation for the teaching staff of Ophthalmology subject in order to develop the skill "diagnosis" of ophthalmologic manifestations present in some systemic diseases.

Method:

A census sample was applied in the Ophthalmology department at the Hospital General Docente "Dr. Agostinho Neto", in Guantánamo. This census was carried out during the academic year 2019-2020, constituted by the 21 professors of that teaching group. Correspondingly, theoretical and empirical methods were used.

Results:

It was identified that the professors of the Ophthalmology subject group were able to understand the value of the relationship between professors, students and the group, as personal components of the teaching-learning process and to understand that the framework of interpersonal relationships among them it´s established on the basis of categories, activity and communication. As for the non-personal didactic components, professors stated, both in in-depth and group interviews, that this type of methodological preparation was very useful for their teaching-assistance performance.

Conclusions:

The methodological preparation carried out was appropriate and it is contextualized to the didactic-methodological potentialities and insufficiencies identified in this teaching group for the development of the skill "diagnosis" of ophthalmologic manifestations present in some systemic diseases: cerebrovascular, cardiovascular, neoplasias and respiratory diseases.

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