Some Considerations about the Permanent Improvement of Health Professionals in Cuba

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postgraduate education, permanent improvement, professional improvement.

Abstract

Introduction: The knowledge society is growing in an accelerated manner and, also, is aging rapidly, which contributes to the necessity of learning how to manage knowledge and demands to favor the permanent improvement of health professionals, in order to turn them into a human talent resource with high knowledge for responding to the most pressing health needs.

Objective: To characterize the permanent improvement of health professionals in Cuba.

Methods: A documental review was carried out on the continuing education of health professionals, through the Scopus, SciELO, CUMED, LILACS, Virtual Health Library, and PubMed databases, in Spanish and English, by means of the information search engine Google Scholar. Twenty scientific articles of sufficient quality and current relevance concerning the proposed objective were selected, for which the historical-logical theoretical method of scientific research was applied. The following words were used for the search: educación de posgrado [postgraduate education], superación profesional [professional improvement] and superación permanente [permanent improvement].

Results: Permanent improvement, a particular process of postgraduate education for health professionals, has been studied by different authors. This comprises a system oriented to professional enrichment for continuously updating, broadening and deepening knowledge in order to raise general comprehensive culture and fulfill professional performance with quality.

Conclusions: The systematization carried out on the permanent improvement of health professionals guarantees the updating of knowledge and skills, which allows raising the quality of competence and performance of health service providers to the population.

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Author Biographies

Librada Santana Martínez, Ministerio de Salud Pública

Doctora en Medicina, especialista de primer y segundo grado en Medicina General Integral, master en Atención Integral a la Mujer, Funcionaria de la Dirección Nacional de posgrado del Ministerio de Salud Pública, Doctoranda de Ciencias de la Educación médica,Profesora e Investigadora Auxiliar en la FCM Salvador Allende de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana

Ana Margarita Toledo Fernández, Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba

Doctora en Médicina, Especialista de Primer y Segundo grado en Medicina General Integral; master en Atención Primaria de Salud y Doctora en Ciencias de la Educación Médica, profesora e Investigadora Titular de la Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública de la Universidad Médica de la Habana

Susana Coello Santana, Policlínico Docente "Antonio Maceo" Facultad de ciencias médicas "Salvador Allende"

Doctora en Medicina. Especialista de primer y segundo grado en Medicina Interna; policlínico Docente Antonio Maceo, profesor Auxiliar. Máster en Medicina Bionergética y Natural, Doctoranda de Ciencias de la Educación Médica

Manuel de Jesús Morales Maya, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Camaguey

Doctor en medicina, Especialista de primer y segundo grado en Epidemiología, Máster en Epidemiología, Universidad Médica de Camagüey. Profesor Auxiliar. Doctorando de Ciencias de la Educación

Published

2024-07-04

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Santana Martínez L, Toledo Fernández AM, Coello Santana S, Morales Maya M de J. Some Considerations about the Permanent Improvement of Health Professionals in Cuba. Educación Médica Superior [Internet]. 2024 Jul. 4 [cited 2025 Apr. 2];38. Available from: https://ems.sld.cu/index.php/ems/article/view/4025

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