Abstract

BARCIELA GONZALEZ LONGORIA, María de la Caridad et al. Brief history of the formation of human resources. Educ Med Super [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.4, pp.677-687. ISSN 0864-2141.

A historical research study was conducted to present the development of the process of formation and upgrading of Cuban cooperators in the Cuban Medical Mission and of the New Program for the Formation of Community-based Integral Physicians in Portuguesa state of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The methods used in the study were analysis and summarizing of consulted literature, historical-logical and genetic analysis as well as interviews and reviews of documents and statistical reports. The study set forth how and when teaching activity started for the Cuban cooperators, making emphasis on the post-graduate education, the formation of General Integral Medicine specialists both Cubans and Venezuelans and the formation of Masters . In the undergraduate education, the study underlined the formation of physicians for the strengthening of the public health in Venezuela and the inception of the national program of community-based integral medicine formation from which the first cohort of 311 new professionals graduated in 2011, who render service in the public health system of that nation.

Keywords : formation of human resources; new program of formation; community-based integral medicine.

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