Cabrera CN, Cantelar FN, Chao SMI, Cantelar MB, Valcárcel IN

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the specialty of Microbiology as academic training ensures the continuous development of the health care graduate program. The specialty was started in Cuba in the year 1963 intended for graduate general practitioners, and as of 1983 at Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute, in compliance with the integration of teaching, care and research activities as a training strategy.
Objective: describe the curricular development of the teaching program of the specialty of Microbiology for doctors.
Methods: a pedagogical study was conducted which describes the role of the academic management model in graduate education at Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute along three decades of training in the specialty of Medical Microbiology, in keeping with the guiding principle of Cuban medical graduate education in terms of theoretical methods of analysis, observation and historicallogical synthesis.
Results: training of medical microbiologists in three profiles during 33 years and orientation of specialists toward research in three work profiles: bacteriologymycology, parasitology and virology. Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute is a leading center for training in this medical specialty and its significance for the service in the National Health System. The training strategy used is the contribution of a quality teaching process responding to the need for highly qualified professionals: 67% PhDs, 612 national and international publications, more than 12 text books and 174 in journals, participation in scientific events, prizes, awards, patents, and national and international registries.
Conclusions: the teaching program for specialization in Medical Microbiology is relevant; is focused and based on topics, problems and tasks assigned by the National Health System. The theoretical and methodological foundation of the program for the specialty of Microbiology complies with the general goals and the objectives of the academic activities in the curriculum. The practical implementation and assurance of the curriculum exhibit a process of permanent quality improvement throughout the years it has been taught.