Orientations of the Master’s Degree courses for health professionals

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master’s degree curricular design, orientation, activity-interdisciplinarity.

Abstract

Introduction: The 2019 regulations on postgraduate education of the Republic of Cuba open new responses to the needs of academic master's degree courses for training health professionals, a pending issue in the healthcare, management and specialization areas. This contributes to the continuity, pertinence and interdisciplinarity of professional training, as well as to the master's degree curricular designs in this sector.

Objective: To substantiate the orientations that master's degree programs for health professionals can assume.

Author position: The foundations are made up of theoretical-methodological positions corresponding to the postgraduate pedagogical process in the health area, its relation with the occupational activity carried out by health workers, and the currently valid legislation on postgraduate education in the country, in order to consider the system of fundamental professional activities that ensure the fulfillment of institutional missions. This requires an essential generalization and subsequent abstraction, based on the analysis of the occupational functions performed and contributing to the fulfillment of these missions. The master's degree courses provide a broad and advanced scientific culture in a certain field of knowledge, as well as greater capacity and development to carry out activities. This is retrieved in an enhanced way in terms of occupational performance, as well as in the development and fulfillment of the social mission of the institution.

Conclusions: The master's degree courses for health professionals are oriented to the healthcare, research, teaching and management scenarios. Regardless of the orientation of the program, research continues to be essential.

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Author Biography

Guillermo Jesús Bernaza Rodríguez, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Profesor Titular, Doctor en Ciencias Pedagógicas, Miembro del Tribunal Nacional de Grados Científicos en Ciencias Pedagógicas, Experto de la Junta Nacional de Acreditación, Miembro invitado de la Comisión Asesora de Posgrado de la DEP-MES, Miembro del Comité Académico de la Maestría en Educación Médica de la Facultad "Calixto García". Ha formado varios másteres y doctores en Ciencias. Ha publicados varios libros y artículos científicos sobre el posgrado.

Published

2022-08-20

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Bernaza Rodríguez GJ, Dumé Sánchez JA, Oramas Domínguez I, Jiménez Sánchez L, Douglas de la Peña C, Alemañy Pérez E. Orientations of the Master’s Degree courses for health professionals. Educación Médica Superior [Internet]. 2022 Aug. 20 [cited 2025 Dec. 5];36(3). Available from: https://ems.sld.cu/index.php/ems/article/view/3374

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