Some reflections on the Abraham Flexner and his influences on the Cuban curricular design
Section: TEACHING TO LEARN
Authors
Yunia Hernández Ledesma
Position
Profesora Instructora en Fisiología. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Pinar del Río.
Contact address
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna. Departamento de Enfermería, km 89. Carretera Central Pinar del Río. 20100 Cuba.
Contact email: yuniahla@yahoo.es
Abstract
As the XX came to its end, it witnessed large efforts aimed at reaching excellent standards in higher medical education. Abraham Flexner, pioneer of medical education, carried out inspections at medical universities throughout the United States and Canada. These inspections concluded with the publication in 1910 of a report called the “Flexner report”, where a set of recommendations are established for the teaching of medicine which were almost universally standards. The authors intents with this work to get closer to the life, the work and the transcendence of some of Flexner’s recommendations that are still in force in the training of human resources in biomedical careers.
Keywords:
higher medical educationcurricular design
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Título:
Algunas reflexiones sobre Abraham Flexner y sus influencias en el diseño curricular cubano
