Introduction:

The Public Health Ministry stablished the National Program for the development and generalization of Natural and Traditional Medicine in 1995. It allowed the implementation of the master’s program of Natural and Traditional Medicine, directed to comprehensive care to the patients.

Objective:

To assess the research competency of Natural Medicine master’s students in comprehensive care to the patients.

Methods:

It was made a cross sectional, pre-experimental qualitative research. It was included 60 students from cohort one of the master’s program of Natural and Traditional Medicine in Comprehensive Care of the patients in the Medical University of Holguín. The students were selected by purposive sampling. It was used the observational method and statistical tests Cronbach´s Alpha and Chi Square.

Results:

It was provided the profile of research competency that characterized the masters in Natural and Traditional Medicine in Comprehensive Care of the patients, and the evaluation tool. It was detected improvements in student´s research skills by the solutions of problems of Natural and Traditional Medicine in Comprehensive Care of patients from teaching, health education and medical assistance.

Conclusions:

The research competency allows the innovation, transformation, to improve or design new diagnostic and treatment profiles, teaching alternatives, health promotion and prevention. It also promoted administrative management to improve the quality in the application of therapeutics proceedings of Natural and Traditional Medicine in Comprehensive Care of patients.

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