Public politics in medical education and their influence on the curricular readjustment

Abstract

The challenges of the current world require conferring to health care a priority among the social politics, and in this process the medical university assumes a position of principles. During the last years, several countries of the Latin American area and around the world have showed the results of the readjustment of the training curriculums. It is noticed the interest of approaching professionals to the primary health care, and new subjects are implemented, to reach the aims of “Health for everyone”, the program of the World Health Organization (WHO). Cuba, for its part, has been characterized for keeping up a coherent line of work to achieve the quality of health services since 1959. Since them the training of physicians has been a strategic task, and a series of study plans have allowed to affront these challenges in each historical moment. Several   criteria have been published in the last years with respect to the way the basic training of the futures physicians is led; it has generated disputes among the interested factors, motivating reforms at the end that are still insufficient. Currently, a new study plan is implemented in the medicine studies, a true task for the teaching staff carrying this task out. The aim is promoting reflections on the treatment of public health politics in the region and particularly in Cuba, making emphasis in medical education as its training and sustaining axis.