Pérez HG, Pujals VNI, del Pozo CCR, Vingut GJL

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The Cuban medical mission to the Republic of Angola has contributed to the improvement of that population's health, based on community medicine. Therefore, the Secretariat of State of the Ministry of Higher Education of this country requested the implementation of the Cuban Medicine major syllabus adapted the overall Angolan conditions. The general training subjects included were English Language, Physical Education and Medical Informatics, in close relation with Community Medicine I and II.
Objective: To adapt the general training subjects of the Cuban Medicine major syllabus to the conditions of the Republic of Angola.
Methods: A research about technological development was carried out, based on the contextual and regulatory features of the Angolan environment, by means of documental analysis, interviews to the authorities and focal groups with criteria by experts in these topics.
Results: The general training subjects were analyzed in their traverse and vertical axes, and the design of the disciplines Medical Informatics, Physical Education and English Language was carried out and integrated to the Medicine syllabus.
Conclusion: Community projection is present throughout the whole Medicine major and integrates the general training disciplines, which allows for the future professional to consolidate his/her knowledge and the abilities for the development of their carreer.

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