Methodological procedures for the implementation of the curricular strategy Public Health and Environmental Education

Abstract

Background: the insufficiencies in the implementation of the curricular strategy Public Health and Environmental Education in the training of the medical student, limit the training of the general practitioner.
Objective: to develop methodological procedures that lead to concrete actions to improve the implementation of the curricular strategy Public Health and Environmental Education.
Method: an essentially qualitative development research work was developed from November 2016 to September 2017 in the Medical Sciences site of Puerto Padre, of Las Tunas Medical Sciences University. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and the historical-logical; and empirical ones: survey in the form of a questionnaire for teachers and students.
Results: deficiencies were found in the knowledge of the methodology to apply the curricular strategy Public Health and Environmental Education in the teachers, which conspire against its effective implementation in the different disciplines, subjects and rotations from the first to fifth years of the career of Medicine; this limits the development of skills in the students for their future performance as general practitioners, that’s why methodological procedures were designed.
Conclusions: they were valued by specialists as relevant, feasible to apply and useful for the implementation of the aforementioned curricular strategy, for that reason constitutes an adequate tool in the general practitioner's health education.