Program of specialist training in Family and Community Medicine in Ecuador, with participation of Cuban professors
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Primary health care, Family practice, Graduate education.Abstract
Primary health care is the strategy for the development of health systems and requires appropriate human resources. In Ecuador, as part of the transformation of the citizens' Revolution, primary health care develops, and with it, the training of specialists in Family and Community Medicine, in collaboration with Cuban professors. The aim of this paper is to describe the strategy for training specialists in Family and Community Medicine in Ecuador. From the working exit, a curriculum is developed with a length of three years, whose methodology is fundamentally supported by two methodological approaches: a constructivist and systemic one. The main settings of this training are health centers of primary care, where teaching, research, management and care are effectively integrated, contributing with the development of the comprehensive care model. The macro and mesocurricular filter consists of diachronic and synchronic axes determining the curricular units organized in 24 subjects. Different ways of teaching and education in the workplace, hospital rotations, medical guards and classes are used. This specialization program aims at achieving comprehensive specialists with high scientific quality and human values that strengthen primary health care and modify the existing health framework with efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction for the population.Downloads
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