Background:

the Cuban National Health System has the need, the political will and the legal instruments to increase the demand in the training and improvement of its human resources.

Objective:

to design a professional improvement strategy to improve the performance of the specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine in comprehensive medical care for the health of the worker.

Methods:

a quasi-experiment study type was carried out in the municipality of Santa Clara, Villa Clara province, from January to May 2019. Theoretical methods were used: historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, induction-deduction, systemic- structural-functional and modeling; empirical ones: documentary analysis, performance test, expert consultation and satisfaction survey; and statistics.

Results:

the documentary analysis showed the absence in the plans for overcoming activities that address occupational health as content, aimed at specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine. The average score of the performance test before applying the strategy was 59.62 points and after its execution 74.54 points, which allowed the experts to measure the theoretical validity of the proposal and its relevance.

Conclusions:

the professional improvement strategy for comprehensive medical care for health worker’s allowed solving problems of GPs practice, by producing changes in the comprehensive health actions and reducing the contradictions between the current and desired state of performance.

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