Abstract

This paper presents a study aimed at training medicine professors about cultural diversity for them to pay attention to this issue in the medicine program, in the context of internationalisation of the medicine school in Cuba. It is confirmed, through an initial exploratory study made at Cienfuegos Medicine School, that the shortcomings in the current training of the medicine program professors show a lack of offers that allow them to pay attention to cultural diversity in the groups of students, mainly in the context of higher education internationalization. For this reason, a new training strategy is proposed for the continuing education of medical professors in the field of cultural diversity. To design this strategy, different theoretical, empirical and statistical methods were used in the research. The strategy takes into account the needs of the context and the teaching process, based on the theory of intercultural education and a set of requirements for continuing education to be aware of the cultural diversity of medicine students. The evaluation of this scientific result by experts showed its relevance and feasibility.

Keywords

continuing education, internationalisation, cultural diversity, medicine professors, training strategy