Historical stages of the training process in the specialty of General Comprehensive Stomatology in Guantanamo province

Abstract

Introduction: throughout its history, the training of stomatologists in Cuba has been going through different study plans, but there is no doubt that the most radical changes are generated after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, when there is a democratization of access to careers, the development of postgraduate education, especially the specialization and the gradual transition of the conception of the health disease process. Objective: to present the consolidation of the training process in the specialty of General Comprehensive Stomatology in Guantanamo province. Development: a historical analysis of the training process of the Specialty of General Comprehensive Stomatology in Guantánamo was carried out considering the relevance of this specialty in the dental care system in Cuba. The following indicators are taken into account: training model, form of entry into the training process, training scenario and stomatological care model. In the article the historical milestones were established that allowed to delimit three stages of the formative process in the specialty of Integral General Dentistry, the historical regularities and description of each stage and, finally, the historical tendency that prevailed in the process was raised. Conclusions: by comprehensively analyzing the stages of the training process in the specialty of EGI was established as a historical trend: the training process in the specialty of General Comprehensive Stomatology has gone from a biologicist and curative model, a fragmented care practice, and a selective entrance of the stomatologists, towards a biopsychosocial model, based on health promotion and disease prevention, but it has maintained in its study plans the traditional approach with the objectives as governing categories.