Abstract

LEMUS LAGO, Elia Rosa  and  CARBALLO FERNANDEZ, Guadalupe. Research about the theoretical bases of the general integral medicine specialty and of the family physician in Cuba. Educ Med Super [online]. 2013, vol.27, n.4, pp.404-418. ISSN 0864-2141.

The conceptual ideas about the general integral medicine specialty and the family physician were described in a historical research conducted from January 1959 through September 2009, in which the chronological sub-method and the descriptive-type content analysis of a universe of 180 Commander-in-chief Fidel Castro Ruz's speeches were used. It was concluded that Cuba faced a negative campaign to strip the country of physicians, which was overcome thanks to the formation of thousands of Cuban physicians under revolutionary ethics and the formation of physicians for the rest of the world. The functions of the physician cover the social function and the internationalist function. The family physician became the guardian of the people´s health. The general integral medicine specialist is a doctor that is required everywhere; therefore, this is a Cuban contribution to the health care worldwide.

Keywords : general integral medicine specialist; family physician.

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