The managing role in the University of the Medical Sciences of Matanzas in each organizational stage

Abstract

Introduction: in the organization of the universities, knowledge and management have been administered through lineally ascendant chains, from the chairs and professorships to the University Council and headmaster.  The current University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas has gone through different stages and periods, and during this process its managing staff has received different denominations in dependence on the structure assumed by educational center. In spite of the important role played by the managing staff and headmasters, no document has been found recording their full names and performed functions, what is very important for the history of the University.

Objective: to propose recording names and data of the main managers of the teaching-educative process in the University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas

Material and methods: Qualitative methods of the theoretical and empiric levels have been used, interviews and documental reviews among the last ones. 

Results: the research showed six well defined periods or stages in the development of medical teaching in the province of Matanzas, its organizational structure and members of the managing staff specifying medical specialty and periods of time they occupied that function.

Conclusions: in the period of time passed from the beginning of the medical teaching and nowadays, the managing staff has varied according to the historical times, but the common effort has allowed the continuation of medical teaching in the province and the high quality levels it has reached.