Methodological actions for the consolidation of values in students through social-cultural management

Abstract

Background: values are enriching sources of the personality of future graduates of Higher Medical Education Centers. It is necessary to determine the perception that Dentistry students have about what they must develop for the profession and as social beings.
Objective: to develop methodological actions for the training of teachers on the formation and consolidation of the values that must characterize students based on the professional model, through social-cultural management.
Methods: an investigation was carried out at the Dentistry Faculty during the 2018-2019 academic year. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive and the systemic approach; empirical: documentary analysis, student survey and observation.
Results: the analysis of the applied methods allowed determining the perception that dentistry students have about the values that they must develop for the profession and as social beings; the priorities that they give to shared and desired values set forth in the General Regulation of Dental Services and the professional model. The irregularities identified confirm the need to continue the formation of values, for which methodological actions are proposed for the preparation of teachers, which were evaluated by specialist´s criteria.
Conclusions: the proposed actions include the use of cultural resources and the values inherent to the personality of the Cuban dentist, to achieve a novel humanistic approach. They were assessed as suitable for their application in the context for which they were created.