Introduction:

Professional improvement constitutes a permanent education pathway for human resources. The health indicators that Cuba shows today, are an imperative to continue its development, even more the medical specialties, fundamentally in the lines related to the introduction of new techniques and advanced technologies, which respond to the solution of prioritized health problems, as well as those that cannot be currently solved in Cuba and that require the departure of patients to receive treatment abroad.

Objective:

To characterize the professional training activities carried out in Cuba by foreign experts to health sector professionals in the period 2015-2019.

Development:

A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on all the professional improvement activities carried out in the years 2015-2019 by foreign experts in the country. Absolute and relative frequency was used as summary measures. Seventy-one professional improvement activities were provided by 272 foreign experts from 19 countries. 4012 professionals from 36 medical specialties linked to the Cancer Control Program and directed to the prioritized lines of development and programs were trained. 35 new techniques and technologies were introduced. 4911 patients benefited.

Conclusions:

The number of professionals trained in techniques and technologies introduced in Cuba increased in relation to previous years, through the exchange between recognized international professors of different specialties and Cuban professionals.

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