Introduction:

Administration, management or management should be part of the formative path in undergraduate health careers. Training linked to the development of countries and professions, with appropriation and administrative knowledge of the health context.

Objective:

To reflect on the central themes of health management in the curricula of health sciences careers in Chile, during undergraduate training.

Development:

The curricula of health careers were reviewed in order to recognize subjects-modules of different health professions related to administration. Descriptive design was used, with theoretical-logical-reflexive analysis, with content analysis from scientific literature and critical reasoning of authors, on the analyzed construct. The use of terms such as administration, human talent management, management or management reflected in the curricula were agglutinated. Most of the careers do not contain these subjects. The Nursing career in all the universities that teach it, include thematic categories analyzed, which could favor the positioning of nursing in health center management areas, for being a guarantor in administrative activities of the services, to guarantee the management of care.

Conclusions:

The absence of administration and management subjects in the curricula of health careers in Chile could have repercussions on the graduates' profiles, besides interfering in clinical-health care management and leadership, necessary to manage and lead the human talent in health care.

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