Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río (Sep 2017)
Teaching experiences during the medical collaboration in Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas State, Venezuela
Abstract
Introduction: Barrio Adentro Mission in Venezuela dignifies the work of Cuban medical collaboration by providing disinterested assistance to those who need it most in the various areas of human existence, medical care, teaching and research. Objective: to describe the teaching experiences during the Medical Collaboration in Puerto Ayacucho State, Amazonas, Venezuela in 2016. Method: statistical records of the Regional Health, registrar office documents and state teaching coordination were reviewed, the main impacts of this collaboration on pre and postgraduate teaching processes were summarized, transcendence of integrated community work, student and teaching-research activities, a study was carried out on patients with genetic and disability diseases, the documentary review, interview, medical consultation and the authors' experience were assumed. Results: the training of human resources in pre and post-graduate studies was consolidated, with an increase in enrollments in medical care and in specialization. Graduation of new physicians and specialists that were incorporated into the public system guaranteeing the provision of integrated and free services with accessibility to the entire population, achieving the perfection of the teaching staff. Conclusion: the work carried out allowed increasing the scientific-methodological preparation of the staff, to increase the training of pre and post-graduate human resources, improvement of the comprehensive community work with better control and follow-up of patients distributed together with timely orientation to families in extreme poverty.
