Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Rationale: Nutrition constitutes today the foundation of many of the risk factors involved in the onset of non-communicable chronic diseases. Consequently, the curricular approach of the sciences of Food and Nutrition in the career of Medicine requires the attention of educators and directives alike. Objective: To advance the design of a curricular strategy for the teaching of Nutrition in the career of Medicine. Study location: “Mariana Grajales Coello” Faculty of Medical Sciences, Holguín (Holguín, Cuba). Methods: A development research was conducted relying on the use of theoretical as well empirical methods such as surveys administered to students, professors and directives; and interviews with key informers. Collected data was statistically treated in order to obtain the results. Results: Professors, students and directives concurred in the importance of nutrition as one of the main causes of mortality of the populations; and mentioned the disciplines incorporating these contents within the career of Medicine, along with those needed to be incorporated for achieving a comprehensive approach. Surveyed professors and directives related the levels of methodological work where Nutrition is taught, and in which of them there is need for improvement. These elements were indispensable for designing a program structured of the curricular strategy in Nutrition along the three themes to deliver as part of the subjects of the main integrating discipline, those essentials to the profile, and others related to general formation. Conclusions: Professors, students and directives alike recognized the need of incorporating Nutrition within the formation of the general physician from different disciplines and levels of methodological work, in correspondence with the design of the program of the curricular strategy. Such curricular strategy was organized (according with the guiding documents) along three themes. In addition, the coordinating discipline and the participant disciplines were determined.