Estrategia de perfeccionamiento curricular en las prácticas pre profesionales de la carrera de medicina a partir de la integración con las ciencias básicas biomédicas

Abstract

Pre-professional practices are an essential component in the training of higher education students and particularly in the Medicine Career, they are conceived as the bridge between academic training and care practice, with this we consider the culmination of the career with a harmonious teaching-learning process that guarantees the knowledge, skills and abilities required by future health professionals. Pre-professional practices in the field of Medicine are carried out under the name of Rotating Internship Program, this program is made up of 52 calendar weeks, without vacations or holidays, divided into 5 rotations: 3 rotations of 10 weeks and 2 rotations of 11 weeks respectively, thus allowing 5 modules to be passed, which are: pediatrics, community medicine, internal medicine, surgery and gynecology/obstetrics. The total number of hours to complete is 4160 hours at the end of the rotating internship year, equivalent to 80 hours of work weekly, divided into care work 80% (64 hours) and academia 20% (16 hours). At the National level, the Organic Law of Higher Education establishes its humanist, cultural and scientific character as the purposes of higher education, in addition to 13 consecrating it as a right of the people, the same in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic will respond to the public interest and not will be at the service of individual and corporate interests. The new conditions of work performance in the public and private sectors are increasingly demanding with the quality of the professional training of graduates, therefore, to improve the curricular designs, in what concerns pre-professional practices in an integrated way to knowledge The precedent of the Basic Biomedical Sciences will allow the achievement of the competences and the expected performance in these professionals, the improvement of education and therefore professionals with solid abilities and skills in the field of health and medicine, focused not only on healing but also focused on the prevention and promotion of health, at the different levels of care, coming to conceive a quality health, of the new era that allows to have clear and comprehensive objectives.