Introduction:

the teaching-learning process of elective surgery in surgical affections of the thyroid gland needs orientation from a specific methodological action, due to the reduced time in the program of the specialty for its development, condition that demands teaching means that facilitate the assimilation, appropriation and self-learning of the contents.

Objective:

to elaborate a didactic anthology for the teaching-learning process of elective general neck surgery in surgical affections of the thyroid gland, in the Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital "León Cuervo Rubio" of Pinar del Río.

Methods:

the research was based on the dialectic materialist approach that allowed deepening the knowledge of the process and its interrelations in the social historical conditions of postgraduate education in the specialist in General Surgery. Theoretical methods such as documentary analysis, historical logic, modeling and experts' criteria were used.

Results:

the didactic anthology for the teaching-learning process of elective General Neck Surgery in surgical affections of the thyroid gland is presented. The essentials of knowledge and of the anthology itself, its foundations from different areas of knowledge, the functions and components that structure the proposal by enabling dynamic interactions among the subjects of the process under study and its theoretical validation are defined.

Conclusions:

in the didactic anthology, theoretical and practical essentialities are concretized that propitiate its systematic projection for the self-management of knowledge. The experience of the participants is taken advantage of and the methodological work in the training of specialists is improved.

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