Background:

in Cuban higher medical education, professional development constitutes an important way to achieve the improvement and / or completion of the teaching staff's preparation in Didactics.

Objective:

to socialize the results obtained in the implementation of the program of improvement in Didactics.

Methods:

a development investigation was carried out at the Dentistry Faculty of Villa Clara during from 2016 to 2019. Theoretical methods were used: analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive; empirical ones: pedagogical test, contrast of information and pedagogical pre-experiment; and statistical and / or mathematical processing: frequency calculation and Wilcoxon test.

Results:

the evaluation of the dependent variable by levels in the pedagogical pre- experiment showed that all the teachers went through the level in both dimensions. The selected statistical test allowed comparing the frequency values ​​and as p = 0.000 <0.05 it can be stated with a high level of reliability that the improvement program caused differences between the results at the beginning and at the end in its Didactic preparation.

Conclusions:

the viability of this program and its possibilities of causing positive changes in the preparation of Didactics in teachers were expressed, in correspondence with the particularities of the teaching-learning process of Dentistry.

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