2018, Number 4
Curricular strategy of Natural and Traditional Medicine in the Training Program of Comprehensive Community Medicine
Ramos PK, Hidalgo GCI, Gort CO, Serrano CMM
Language: Spanish
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Page: 762-782
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: since the materialization of the National Training Syllabus in Comprehensive Community Medicine, the contents of Natural and Traditional Medicine have been included in a curricular unit and elective courses. After twelve years of its implementation of the syllabus, and making an analysis of the objectives of the curricular unit of Natural and Traditional Medicine, the implementation of this current curricular strategy considers the excellence of the graduate; its proposal is aimed at improving this integration and the quality to train the Comprehensive Community Physicians.Objective: to design a curricular strategy that allows the arrangement of Natural and Traditional Medicine to the National Training Syllabus in Comprehensive Community Medicine.
Methods: a descriptive study was carried out based on the documentary review of the National Training Syllabus in Comprehensive Community Medicine, during the academic year 2017. Theoretical and empirical methods were used, as observation and interview, taking into account the corresponding ethical characteristics.
Results: with the interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach, the curricular strategy of Natural and Traditional Medicine was designed, as well as its implementation, which was structured in: title, basis, general objective, and objectives by cycles, coordinating curricular units and participants, general methodological orientations, content system, teaching tasks, type of the teaching and medical literature organization.
Conclusions: the curricular strategy is a tool to be taken into account for the introduction of the Eastern and Western therapeutic series, in order to improve the quality of the training processes, along with professional competences and the values of Comprehensive Community Physicians.