Rodríguez FZ, Soler MCD

Language: Spanish
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Page: 173-176
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: in the year 2000, the System of Evaluation and Accreditation of University Careers was instituted in Cuba, with similar standards to those of the World Federation of Medical Education.
Objective: to describe essential aspects concerning to the process of institutional accreditation of teaching institutions in medical sciences.
Method: A bibliographic search was carried out using academic Google for the articles published between 2015-2019. Initially, 36 articles in Spanish and English were retrieved and were selected 11 that coincided with the proposed objective.
Development: The quality of the accreditation is inferred from academic excellence and social relevance. Quality depends on human resources (faculty and students); material base available (universities and different settings); and pedagogical and didactic management of the training process. Relevance ensures good development in the training of competent professionals to raise the health status of the population. Five quality variables are identified: relevance and social impact; teachers; students, infrastructure and curriculum. The stages of the quality management process are: self-evaluation, adjustment and improvement, external evaluation, accreditation and recognition.
Conclusions: The teaching settings where education at work is developed at the different levels of health care must meet the requirements established to fulfill the mission of training competent professionals and guarantors of the principle of universal health. These requirements are periodically evaluated in order to assure the quality of the teaching process, as a dialectical unit of academic excellence and social relevance.