Cobas VME, Gómez LLM, Ruiz HJR, Zurbano CA

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Background: the Cuban Revolution began the decentralization of medical studies at the universities of Santiago de Cuba and Santa Clara.
Objective: to characterize the development of medical education in the central region in its 50 years of existence.
Methods: a documentary research was carried out at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences, from January to May 2016. These theoretical methods were used: historical and logical analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; and empirical ones: analysis of historical documents: reports, manuals, newspaper articles and records.
Results: these 50 years have identified several historical stages with very peculiar characteristics, including: genesis of medical studies in the central region (1960-1966), development of the School of Medicine (1966-1973) and the Faculty of Medicine (1972-1973 academic year until 1975), start teaching basic biomedical sciences and creation of the Higher Institute of medical Sciences (1975-1981), expanding the training of health professionals and major achievements (1985-1989) , confrontation with the special period (1991-1999), the Latin American School of Medicine, its beginnings in the 2001-2002 academic year , the process of universalization of education; and last, from 2014-2015 to the current time.
Conclusions: medical education in the central region and then in Villa Clara has responded to historical, social and academic changes in the country; at all stages of its progress, concretized in the increasing number of graduates, its achievements and adjustment to the changes arising from their university processes are perceived.

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