Proposal of use a website about the History of Cuban Medicine and Public Health, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the subject Public Health

Abstract

Introduction: medical graduate who has a comprehensive training, with a high scientific and cultural preparation attached to a system of well-established human values in which patriotic and internationalist vocation prevail and an outstanding human sensitivity, it is one of the objectives of the curriculum strategies of the medical career. Taking as a starting point the existence of a software product on the History of Medicine and Cuban Public Health in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the potential that the subject of Public Health has for the development of educational work.

Objective: it is a proposal of how to use the website in the subject to enhance the educational work from curricular dimension.

Method: the theoretical method for the literature review was used, in which documents such as the program of Public Health were consulted and opinions were exchanged with teachers, which have more than 10 years of experience in teaching.

Results: the site can be used in all organizational forms of teaching process to direct idea, illustrate the teacher's presentation, rationally acquire knowledge and deepen them.

Conclusions: website designed is valid for educational work from curricular dimension to promote the development of teaching and research activities, to develop skills in the use of information technologies that contribute to the integral formation of students as well as to project the methodological work led to the formation of values.