Background:

the teaching improvement on natural disaster risk management in medical sciences in Cienfuegos has been characterized by insufficient treatment of its content in professional activity, despite being an importance subject, granted both nationally and internationally.

Objective:

to design a course of improvement in risk management against natural disasters aimed at medical sciences teachers.

Methods:

pedagogical research carried out at the Cienfuegos Faculty of Medical Sciences in the 2020-2021 academic year. The learning needs diagnosis was carried out, the course was designed and it was submit to validation by experts. It was given to a group of teachers who presented thesis at the end of the course. Methods of the theoretical level such as analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, historical-logical, and of the empirical level modeling and survey were used.

Results:

the course was structured in five topics that included problems related to risk identification, analysis and evaluation, as part of the necessary steps to understand risk management and learning its three stages: proactive, corrective and reactive. The experts considered it feasible, relevant and of high quality. The students presented thesis with great scientific methodological rigor that served as a platform in research projects and works on science, technology and society.

Conclusions:

the course contributed to increase the teachers’ knowledge of the Cienfuegos Medical Sciences Faculty regarding disaster risk management.

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