Introduction:

The role of the university professor as a counselor, facilitator and researcher needs to be updated permanently, not only from his/her disciplinary knowledge, but from the pedagogical area that allows him/her, during the academic practice, a more educational position transcending the subject to contribute to the improvement of educational quality.

Objective:

To identify the level of training of professors in health sciences.

Development:

Like all professions, teaching has been subject to changes imposed by globalization. For this reason, it is relevant for teachers in the field of health sciences to understand that training students requires permanent improvement of practices that enable comprehensive training based on active participatory models, and not only the acquisition of knowledge in disciplinary knowledge.

Conclusions:

The scholarly profession, as a recognition of academic action in higher education, has focused its importance on training teachers. In the professional teaching model, there are still repetitive, uncritical and not very reflective schemes.

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