Buzón HCY

Language: Spanish
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Page: 780-790
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Public Health subject is aimed at contributing to the training of practitioners and their ways of performance for them to learn the epidemiological method in order to modify the process of health-disease for the benefit of population.
Objective: to identify the main regularities of the teaching-learning process of Public Health subject in the Medical Studies at Pinar del Río University of Medical Sciences.
Method: a study was carried out based on the dialectical materialistic method, as well as the use of theoretical and statistical methods to capture the trends in the development of the teaching-learning process of this subject.
Results: the difficulties are identified in the groundwork of the subject according to the aim of the profession, along with insufficiencies in the appropriation and integration by the students to the main scientific concepts of the subject, which limits the assimilation of the epidemiological thought which is inherent with respect to the training of the general physician.
Conclusions: it was possible to identify as regularities the orientation to the integration of the syllabus as a whole and articulate the subject of Public Health to the link of the design of teaching-learning process, where weaknesses were found to integrate the contents into the subject.