Background:

pedagogical studies have shown that there are difficulties in the functioning of the teaching staff of each year; they constitute a fundamental link for the development of methodological work in universities.

Objective:

to diagnose the difficulties that arise in the functioning of the teaching staff of each year.

Methods:

a descriptive research with a qualitative approach was carried out in the Faculty of Nursing Technology at the University of Medical Sciences in Villa Clara between October 2021 and April 2022. Analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive and historical- logical approaches were applied as theoretical methods; documentary analysis, observation and surveys as empirical ones; and mathematical-statisticians were used for the analysis of the data found.

Results:

we verified that not all the main teachers of each year directed their methodological work to the coordination, advice and control of the guide teachers, tutors and the teaching staff; in addition, not in all the groups an issue of a methodological nature that satisfies the needs of those involved was analyzed. There were difficulties in knowing the documents that must be kept as main teachers of the year, in a general sense, the minutes show difficulties in their writing and measurable and achievable agreements were not always reached to solve the difficulties of the academic year.

Conclusions:

the results exhibited in this research showed that there are difficulties in the teaching staff of each year in charge of carrying out the methodological work at this organizational level as well as insufficiencies in the mastery of the functions of the main teacher of the year.

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