Introduction:

For medical sciences, the role of a Chairperson to the Academic Committee of any specialty is paramount, due to the complexity of conducting the training of residents, given the diversity of specialties, the teaching scenarios and the growing enrollment.

Objective:

To identify the potentialities and weaknesses in the human behavior of the chairpersons to the academic committees of medical specialties at Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Calixto García.

Methods:

An educational development study was carried out. Theoretical and empirical methods were used, accompanied by a set of logical thought processes: analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization, among others.

Results:

Through the triangulation of the results of the evaluated indicators, the mastery of the logic of the study plan and the elements making up the training program were identified as potentialities; together with, among the educational weaknesses, the level to carry out the training of professors concerning the evaluation system in the residence regime; as well as, within the organizational weaknesses, the level of application of the guiding documents for the training of residents.

Conclusions:

The state of human behavior in the chairpersons to the academic committees of medical specialties at Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Calixto García was identified, being the starting point for the design of continuous and permanent educational activities contextualized according to the pedagogical practice of the chairpersons, aimed at the improvement of human behavior.