Introduction:

COVID-19 pandemic as well as other spheres of social life have had great impact in medical education.

Objective:

To promote the experiences acquired during the application of the strategy to confront the COVID-19 pandemic within the undergraduate training process at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Guantánamo.

Method:

A descriptive study collecting historical information of the topic was carried out, making a documental analysis of the Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba decisions issued, and the ones issued by the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Guantánamo to reorganize the undergraduate training process during the pandemic.

Results:

The undergraduate training process at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Guantánamo used a strategy to confront the pandemic formed by 4 main basis: students, professors and workers training in biosafety requirements and confrontational protocols, curricular adjustments in each medical science major, the use of a distance learning program based on the virtual platforms, and the active epidemiologic inquiries made by students and professors. All details were explicitly informed.

Conclusions:

The strategy used to confront the pandemic caused some modifications in the undergraduate training process at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Guantánamo, following to the social demands in Cuba, which ensure the continuity of the teaching-learning process.

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