Background:

the vertiginous advance of the pharmaceutical industry demands from the comprehensive general practitioner a continuous improvement process that favors the rational use of medications.

Objective:

to characterize the improvement of these professionals related to the rational use of medications in the Faculty of Medicine 1 of Santiago de Cuba.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in which the professional improvement activities of five academic courses from 2014 to 2019 were analyzed through the documentary review of the professional improvement plans, as well as the corresponding programs.

Results:

the activities related to the rational use of medications were insufficient and tended to decrease from one course to another; the most used form of postgraduate organization were courses, followed by workshops. To incorporate the contents of rational use of medications, therapeutic elements of a disease or group of diseases were used, as well as the introduction of Herbal and Folk medicine. In the activities, novel aspects were addressed, but no reference was made to reasoned therapy.

Conclusions:

professional improvement for comprehensive general practitioners related to the rational use of medications was characterized, which was assessed as insufficient, so it is urgent to retake the aspects that were deficient in this characterization.

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