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EDUMECENTRO

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Abstract

LEAL GARCIA, Elizabeth; ORIZONDO CRESPO, Cándida; MARTINEZ NEIRA, Xiomara  and  RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ, Nancy. Fermín Valdés Domínguez Quintanó: active patriot, consecrated scientist and health professional. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.3, pp. 401-417.  Epub Sep 30, 2021. ISSN 2077-2874.

Introduction:

the history of Medicine constitutes a valuable source for the formation of values ​​in the process of formation and improvement of future professionals in the medical sciences.

Objective:

to deepen inside the patriotic and medical work of Fermín Valdés Domínguez in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Methods:

a bibliographic review of several historical documents and scientific articles was carried out. The search was carried out in Google scholar from 2014 to December 2020. More than 15 published works were reviewed, in which the factitious collection stands out with clippings of almost all the journalistic works of Fermín Valdés Domínguez published in the Cuban press, and the "famous handwritten booklets" on his memoirs of the war. The information was processed through content analysis and other theoretical methods such as historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive.

Results:

the patriotic and medical work of Fermín Valdés Domínguez in the 19th and 20th centuries was specified. This personality of Cuban history as a university student and professional of Medicine was able to combine his patriotic work in the struggles for independence in the 19th century with scientific and revolutionary journalism.

Conclusions:

through the review carried out, it was shown that the life and work of Fermín Valdés Domínguez as a health professional and prominent Cuban patriot is a valuable tool for curricular educational work in medical education.

Keywords : history of medicine; life history traits; education, medical.

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