Preventive work and implementation of teaching strategies during Covid-19 in the University of Medical Sciences from Santiago de Cuba

Abstract

In view of the imminent world situation taking the COVID-19 outbreak as a starting point, the Health World and Pan-American organizations, have worked in the control of virus. The Cuban health system, through community performance with students and professors, along with preventive work, allowed to mitigate the risk that this disease constitutes for the human health. To such effects, it is briefly commented on the teaching organization in the University of Medical Sciences from Santiago de Cuba, where, in a virtual way and under different conditions, a new teaching scenario was designed to guarantee the ending of the subjects that are not part of the basic curriculum in the existing plan of study, according to the careers and the different academic years.

Keywords

• pandemia
• covid-19
• prevención
• formación médica
• educación en el trabajo
• educación a distancia
• universidad de ciencias médicas.