Background:

The development of interdisciplinarity between the curricular Pharmacology unit and the clinical subjects of the Main discipline in the Stomatology career is essential for the integral formation of the future graduate.

Objective:

To identify the problems that limit the development of interdisciplinarity between Pharmacology and the clinical subjects of the Main Comprehensive Discipline in the Stomatology career.

Methodology:

A cross-sectional descriptive observational study was conducted between November and December 2020 in the Stomatology Faculty at the Santiago de Cuba University of Medical Sciences. The following were considered as analysis units: teaching activities and academic directors, a random sample was selected in both cases (n=18 and n=8, respectively). The following variables were studied: interdisciplinary relations with Pharmacology (observed, not observed and little observed), teaching category, scientific category, academic/scientific degree, specialization degree and the academic directors´ opinion (always, sometimes and never). Observation and interview guides were used respectively as measurement instruments. Percentage was used as a summary measure.

Results:

In more than 50 % of the teaching activities of the clinical subjects of the Main Comprehensive Discipline, interdisciplinary relations with Pharmacology are not observed. In the interviews conducted with academic managers, the prevailed opinion was never.

Conclusions:

The didactic, methodological, academic and research inadequacies identified, limit the development of interdisciplinarity between the curricular unit Pharmacology and the clinical subjects of the Main Comprehensive Discipline in the Stomatology career.

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