Abstract

LOPEZ ESPINOSA, Guillermo José et al. The university administration based on the academic strategy focusing on the community. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.4, pp. 66-80. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: medical education is committed to the health situation of the country, so the solving of health problems should be the source of the practice of the teaching-learning processes. Objective: to describe the implementation of the academic strategy focusing on the community applying the stages of the administrative cycle. Methods: a participatory action research work was carried out during the first quarter of 2016 at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences. The information was obtained by using theoretical methods: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction, which allowed a synthesized way to analyze the main reference on the subject; and empirical ones: documentary analysis. Results: the grouping of the actions envisaged in the strategy focusing on the community according to the administrative cycle stages allowed the active participation of students in curricular community work as part of the in-service training; aimed at changing the picture of health and hygienic-epidemiological situation of the population where they were located. Conclusions: the academic strategyfocusing on the community is socially relevant to the work of students and teachers of medical sciences and its implementation must be in line with the stages of the administrative cycle of each university.

Keywords : Strategies; organization and administration; community-institutional relations; education, medical.

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