Introduction:

the systematic validation of the results of the educational practice in Cuban medical universities discloses the importance and transcendence of the process of assistant students' professional training in the different academic subjects, starting from the determination of the training necessities of educational and scientific-technical character.

Objective:

to elaborate a methodology for the professional training of assistant students using performance educational tasks.

Materials and methods:

during the research the authors applied methods like the analytic-synthetic and the historical-logical ones and systematization. An auto-assessment survey, experts’ consultation and the focal group for methodology validation were also used. Mathematic-statistical methods were applied for data processing.

Results:

the methodology was theoretically validated by means of experts’ consultation and the development of a focal nine-specialist group, who evaluated as very suitable four of the six proposed indicators. The suggestions made headed toward the achievement of conceptual and methodological aspects, making the initial proposal richer.

Conclusions:

a methodology for the professional training of assistant students was elaborated by means of the employment of performance educational tasks. The methodology structural contents were defined in four essential stages: diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.

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