Notes on neurosciences history teaching in the Cuban Medical University

Abstract

Medicine history teaching in Cuba began in 1842, when it was included in the curriculum in the just secularized University of Havana. Since them, its permanence has been discontinuous and unstable in the curriculum of the main high teaching medical institutions. Through the times, teaching Neurosciences in Cuba in Medicine career has not been so far relevant and even there is not a subject or practice period allowing the training youth to deep in this thrilling chapter of the medical sciences. We carried out a review of the documental and bibliographic sources existent in prestigious provincial, national and international institutions, dealing meanly with neurosciences.  We draw a general sketch of the medicine history teaching in the country and investigated about the first scientific paper published in medical literature on Neurology and Neurosurgery. The university professor has to motivate the students in medical historiography knowledge. That way, Cuban physicians’ cultural and scientific formation will be more and more integral and inclusive.