The improvement of the integrated main discipline in the curriculum of the medical career

Abstract

Introduction: Have been multiple the improvements along which has passed the curriculum of the medical career since 1984, this allowed to achieve an integrated main discipline (IMD) according to nowadays´ conception. Objective: to characterize the development of curriculum´s improvement of the integrated main discipline in the curriculum of the Medicine career from 1985-1986 up to the present. Material and Methods: An educational - descriptive research was conducted in 2013 by the Program and Curriculum Advisory Group at the University of Medical Sciences in Havana with the participation of members of the School of Medicine National Committee by means of a documentary review of Curriculum created since 1984 up today. Results and Discussion: Since 1985 18 successive changes were recorded in the subjects of the curriculum that currently they are part of the IMD. Regarding subjects in clinical and surgical clinics; first changes were in 2006 and impacted only the number of hours, the others were in the period 2010 and 2015. 78% of instructional time were spent in the education on the job. The addition of the number of hours dedicated to the IMD made in 2014 was more gradual, from first to fifth year of medical degree. Conclusions: The successive curricular improvements in the subjects that currently conform the DPI allowed a gradual approach to the conformation of the professional profile that characterizes the curriculum "D" and "E".

Keywords: improvement, integrated main discipline, career, medicine, curriculum.