COVID-19 in Cuba: medical education and professional competences

Authors

  • Pedro del Valle Llufrío Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas. Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7710-2828
  • Roxana Ávalos García Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas. Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4561-1676

Keywords:

COVID-19, medical education, professional competences

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2, has brought as a consequence the necessity of taking measures implying social restraining to avoid its fast spread. The Ministry of Public Health has chosen new forms of teaching —like distance education— and has given priority to new tasks that are proper to pandemic facing, in which the students and teaching staff are involved. The current work was accomplished with the objective of reflecting on medical education in this new context and on professional competences training in the field of health care. COVID-19 and the teaching changes and adaptations in the different medical pre-grade and post-grade curriculums have contributed to raise the level of all the staff professional competences. Nothing is going to be the same after this pandemic, and the worst that could occur would be to return to the same teaching forms without taking advantage of the positive things made in these times.

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2021-07-30

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del Valle Llufrío P, Ávalos García R. COVID-19 in Cuba: medical education and professional competences. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2021 Jul. 30 [cited 2025 Feb. 2];43(4):1-9. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/3867

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Vol. 43 No. 4 (2021): Número del Centenario.

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