Introduction:

the training and upgrading programs for professionals in the medical sciences are currently undergoing a thorough review, where the main contribution of this work is to recognize the stages of these processes in the specialties of Anesthesia and Resuscitation together with General Surgery, which are intertwined with each other.

Objective:

to describe the historical trends of the specialties of Anesthesia and Resuscitation together with General Surgery in the process of training and upgrading of these professionals in the preoperative assessment of the surgical patient.

Methods:

to carry out a documentary and systematic review of theoretical and empirical sources of historical articles for the reconstruction of the past in an objective manner through the collection, assessment, verification and synthesis of existing evidence that would reference the subject in question, such as the training and upgrading syllabuses of these specialists.

Conclusions:

surgery in Cuba has had a maintained progress throughout history, whose magnitude has been consistent with the degree of development of the society and the external and internal limitations, where the training of general surgeons in Cuba begins from the 17th century. The origin of anesthesia as a science was the fruit and efforts of surgeons who did not want their patients to suffer from pain during the surgery.

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