Omics contents in syllabi D and E in undergraduate medical studies in Cuba

Abstract

Background: changes in medical practice and research, derived from the Human Genome Project, and the progressive implementation of the precision medicine model, pose new demands for healthcare personal education. Objective: to assess the extent omics contents have been integrated to current syllabi for undergraduate medical studies in Cuba. Methods: syllabi D and E, in use in undergraduate medical studies in Cuba, were reviewed, as well as subjects programs in basic, own and optative/ elective curricula at the University of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas. Terms related to omics contents were used for search strategies. Results: five subjects were found to include such contents: Medical Genetics, Pharmacology I, Morphophysiology I, Medical Informatics and Molecular Biology. No subjects from the clinical area, not even those related to surgical rotations, treated omics contents, as it was the case for basic bibliography in each case. Only definitions, descriptions and relations were found, as well as certain applications, but no skills or values were presented. Conclusions: it has been limited the integration of omics contents in the syllabi of medical studies, circumscribed to some subjects from the basic and preclinical areas in the teaching and learning process, but absent in the subjects of the clinical areas.

Keywords

• medicina de precisión
• tecnologías ómicas
• contenidos ómicos
• proceso enseñanza aprendizaje
• medicina