Introduction:

The process of training assistant students requires new theoretical and methodological concepts that allow the comprehensive development of future health professionals. This by means of specific actions that educationally influence the execution of plans and programs of medicine studies, from a scientific and pedagogical projection.

Objective:

To design an elective course for the pedagogical training of assistant students in the medicine undergraduate studies of University Campus of Medical Sciences, in the municipality of Cardenas.

Materials and methods:

The research is based on the dialectical materialist conception. The theoretical methods were: historical-logical, documentary analysis, systematization, systemic structural functional and modeling. Among empirical methods used were: documentary review, surveys of the assistant students and tutors. Observation of the performance of assistant students was also carried out. The population consisted of 103 assistant students and 38 tutors.

Results:

Insufficient pedagogical actions for the training of assistant students are found as problems in the three indicators of the cognitive dimension and in two of the indicators of the procedural and attitudinal dimensions. In the design of the program of the elective course, the topics to be developed to enhance the pedagogical training of the assistant students are addressed.

Conclusions:

An elective course for the pedagogical training of assistant students in the Medicine undergraduate studies is presented.

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