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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0864-2141</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Educación Médica Superior]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Educ Med Super]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0864-2141</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias MédicasEditorial Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0864-21412020000200022</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Componente crítico en las estrategias de atención médica, prevención y control de la COVID-19]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The critical component as part of the strategies for medical care, prevention and control of COVID-19]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Guanche Garcell]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Humberto]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Suárez Cabrera]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Antonio]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Márquez Furet]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Addis]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[González Valdés]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Anayka]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Gonzalez Alvarez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Luis]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana Hospital Docente Clínico-Quirúrgico &#8220;Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez&#8221; ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[La Habana ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>34</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0864-21412020000200022&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0864-21412020000200022&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0864-21412020000200022&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Introducción:  La educación médica es un elemento de vital importancia para mejorar el desempeño de los profesionales de la salud en la lucha contra la pandemia de COVID-19.  Objetivo:  Identificar los elementos fundamentales relacionados con la educación médica en su relación con la atención médica a pacientes con COVID-19, y las estrategias de prevención y control.  Desarrollo:  Los aspectos relacionados con la atención médica de pacientes sospechosos y confirmados, y con la prevención y el control de la transmisión de infecciones en entornos comunitarios o en centros de salud, se describen como áreas fundamentales para la educación médica. Asimismo, después de controlar la pandemia, los educadores de salud tienen el desafío de evaluar la modificación requerida en los programas de capacitación de profesionales de la salud para lograr un alto rendimiento en los nuevos entornos epidemiológicos. Por este motivo se realizó una sistematización del conocimiento relacionado con los desafíos y el papel de la educación médica en la lucha contra la COVID-19.  Conclusiones:  Los educadores han tenido un desafío durante la epidemia de COVID-19 en la educación de los profesionales de la salud para enfrentar la epidemia, que será un mayor en el futuro debido a la necesidad de lograr la sostenibilidad de la educación y la revisión de los programas de capacitación para enfrentar la nueva realidad epidemiológica.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Introduction:  Medical education is vitally important for improving the performance of health professionals in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.  Objective:  To identify the fundamental elements related to medical education in its relationship with medical care of patients with COVID-19, as well as prevention and control strategies.  Development:  Aspects related to medical care of suspected and confirmed patients, as well as to the prevention and control of infection transmission in the community settings or in health centers, are described as fundamental areas for medical education. Furthermore, after controlling the pandemic, health educators are challenged to assess the required modification to health professional training programs in order to achieve high performance in new epidemiological settings. Therefore, a systematization was carried out of knowledge related to the challenges and the role of medical education in the fight against COVID-19.  Conclusions:  Educators have faced a challenge during the COVID-19 epidemic in educating health professionals to face the epidemic, which will be even greater in the future due to the need to achieve sustainability of education and revision of training programs to face the new epidemiological reality.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[prevención de infecciones]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[medical education]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[capacity building]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[syllabus]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[infection prevention]]></kwd>
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