2014, Number 4
The health surveillance issue in the undergraduate and gradúate curricula for the cuban physician
Language: Spanish
References: 17
Page: 699-713
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: health professionals play an important role at each level as active agent within the health surveillance system.Objective: to describe how the health surveillance system is designed in the undergraduate and graduate formation of the Cuban physician and to assess the ways in which the contents of this formation contributes to the integral general medicine program.
Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted where the universe of study was the medical study curriculum and that of the integral general medicine. The used techniques were review of curricula and interviews to teaching vice-directors of ¨Plaza de la Revolucion¨ municipality.
Results: the main outcomes showed that the health surveillance issue was addressed in seven subjects of the medical studies, but Public Health subject is the one which organizes the health surveillance issue using defined skills, objectives and contents. The health surveillance is not seen as a topic in the integral general medicine subject and the same situation is observed in the curriculum of the integral general medicine specialty.
Conclusions: health surveillance is not included as a topic in the medical studies and in the integral general medicine specialty with the exception of the public health subject that does structure the objectives, skills and contents as a system. In the design of the integral general medicine curriculum and of the specialty as such, health surveillance is not dealt with as a topic and this factor restricts the development of public health-oriented thinking.
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