Characterizatation of the academic management at the University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba

Abstract

In the present work, the results of the exploratory study carried out from October 2019 to February 2020 are exposed and it responds to a project task: Model of educational academic management at the University of Medical Sciences (UCM). With the aim of characterizing the current state of academic management of the substantive processes of this university institution in Santiago de Cuba. Theoretical and empirical methods and parameterization were used as a procedure; where four dimensions were evaluated with twenty indicators, which revealed the strengths and limitations in the organization, planning, direction and control of the substantive processes of the medical university, which reveals the need to transform the undergraduate and postgraduate training process, in the which curricular and extracurricular activities are carried out, where a harmonization is achieved to integrate the processes with a clinical-epidemiological-ethical-humanist approach.