Introduction:

It is unavoidable to solve the shortcomings expressed by Pathological Anatomy residents of Guantanamo School of Medicine in performing the perinatal autopsy.

Objective:

To support the Pathological Anatomy resident’s training to perform the perinatal autopsy.

Methods:

Prior approval by the Ethics Committee, a descriptive, prospective and longitudinal study was carried out during the period from September 2013 to July 2017. Theoretical methods (analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive, systemic approach, modeling), together with empirical methods (observation, documentary analysis, performance exam, teacher survey, specialist criteria), and statistical-mathematic methods (frequency analysis). A didactic modeling of the resident’s training for the performance of the perinatal autopsy was carried out, which was theoretically validated with the participation of seven teachers, and through a pre-experiment with six residents.

Results:

It was appreciated that the training of 100% of the residents for performing the perinatal autopsy did not meet the curricular requirements, which improved significantly after the application of the system of teaching tasks for this purpose. All teachers showed compliance with the proposed modeling.

Conclusions:

The Pathological Anatomy resident’s training was modeled didactically for the performance of the perinatal autopsy, which may contribute to a qualitatively superior didactic-methodological change in the teaching-learning process of the specialization of Pathological Anatomy.

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