Introduction:

solving the problems of health that influence on the population constitutes the starting point for the design of professional training, a process that makes possible the update, widening and continuous improvement of knowledge, including the basic and specialized skills of healthcare professionals working in Primary Health Care level.

Objective:

to design a strategy for the professional training related to atrial fibrillation contextualized to the Primary Health Care settings at Luis Augusto Turcios Lima University Polyclinic, Pinar del Rio.

Methods:

the research was supported on the Dialectic-Materialistic approach which allowed deepening on the knowledge of the process and its interrelation in the historical and social conditions of postgraduate education for the Comprehensive Medicine Specialists. Theoretical methods were mainly used, such as the documentary analysis, historical-logical, modeling and the criteria of experts.

Results:

the strategy for professional training related to atrial fibrillation contextualized to the Primary Health Care settings was presented and based on theoretical and empirical derivations of the research process and from the foundations supported on the different areas of knowledge, the structure, characteristics, components and relations toward the process in study and its theoretical validation.

Conclusions:

the strategy for the professional training related to atrial fibrillation contextualized to the Primary Health Care setting, defined the purposes for the achievement of an efficient performance along with the transformation of the reality in the healthcare area of Luis Augusto Turcios Lima University Polyclinic, Pinar del Rio.

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