Curricular design, a view at Medical Education

Abstract

Introduction: the curriculum proposes an action plan, systematically selected and organized contents, with a view to a pre-established purpose. These contents can be considered independently of one another or related to each other, forming a system of interdependent subjects, in an integrating and global vision. Curricular integration aims at interdisciplinary, observe, research and apprehend reality as it occurs in practice where everything is related. In Cuba, work has been done to achieve a definition of curriculum based on the critical analysis of diverse conceptions and to recognize the reality of the context in which it develops. Objective: to analyze the bases of the curricular design of Medical Education in Cuba. Development: changes in education are important to adapt content, structure, strategies and values to the socio-historical context. The advance of science and technology leads to the conclusion that curricula lose relevance in correspondence with social needs. Currently, it is advocated to train professionals in health, with a comprehensive vision and a broad profile that allows them to face the vertiginous changes that occur in biomedical technology. Conclusions: Medical Education needs teachers, directors and students, who incorporate interdisciplinary aspects into their modes of action with a holistic vision of science and are capable of transposing it to all the processes that take place in universities, which enriches the design curriculum marked by a character of flexibility, diversification and internationalization.