Introduction:

Tutorship is a pedagogical activity that has as purpose to guide and to support the students during his training process.

Objective:

To characterize the professor-tutor in the nursing staff training.

Methods:

A descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study was carried out, in Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso Teaching General Hospital from Santiago de Cuba, during the school course 2016-2017. The universe was constituted by 93 professor-tutors and the 311 students of the nursing career, belonging to the different study modalities. Surveys were applied to students and teaching staff. Variables such as relationship student-tutor, teaching category, tutor activities, tutor's preparation for their professional performance and level of students' satisfaction were analyzed .

Results:

The relation student-tutor was good. The highest percentage of these tutors had no teaching category (73.1 %); also, inadequacies existed in the domain of their functions and limitations in their methodological, pedagogical and scientific preparation.

Conclusions:

It could be demonstrated that most of the tutors carry out care works, fundamentally of methodological advice.

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