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RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, Jorge Félix; BOFFILL CORRALES, Acela Maria; SANABRIA NEGRIN, José G  y  FERNANDEZ MONTEQUIN, Zoila. History of medical education in Cuba. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.1, pp. 151-162. ISSN 1561-3194.

The present university should provide medical students a comprehensive formation on the basis of historical and cultural knowledge; it was the motivation to carry out this study where a current literature revision concerning this topic was offered as a means of complementary support to the teaching of the history. It was aimed at analyzing the emerge and historical evolution of higher medical education in the world and the beginning of the medical teaching in Cuba and its development in colonial, republican-bourgeois and revolutionary-socialist periods till nowadays. Concluding that, Higher Medical Education in Cuba has achieved qualitative and quantitative advances in all aspects of the teaching, medical assistance and investigative processes towards a new stage in the universalization of teaching in the university.

Palabras clave : Universities; history; medical education; history; undergraduate and postgraduate; medical education; medical shools; history; teaching doctors; history; Cuba.

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