Introduction:

diagnosis is one of the main activities of physicians in general and of pathologists in particular, and is the activity that occupies most of this specialist’s time.

Objective:

to design a system of actions to optimize the training process for the development of diagnosis skills in Pathology residents.

Methods:

a descriptive and qualitative research was conducted by means of strategic actions aimed at improving the training process for the development of diagnosis skills in Pathology residents at Pinar del Rio University of Medical Sciences.

Results:

it was confirmed that the training for the development of diagnosis skills is not properly structured, without any planning, not arranged and it does not make possible the resident to systematize the required actions for the mastery of these skills. The strategy was structured through the training of the teaching staff of these specialty and comprehensive professional workshops for the residents of each academic year.

Conclusions:

a system of actions was designed to train the teaching staff and residents of Pathology, which allowed encouraging strategic actions to improve the teaching-learning process for the development of diagnosis-morphological skills and increase the responsibility toward the teaching-leaning activity, and the level of social commitment in relation to this function, where the residents should be able to integrate and apply the knowledge acquired by means of the different modules for the characteristic problem-solving of this profession.

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