The development of creativeness and education at work in the medical sciences

Abstract

The meaning of the education at work has evolved with ages. Its principal promoter, Dr. Fidel Ilizástigui Dupuy, kept developing this concept on the basis of Marxist – Leninist conceptions, Martí’s conception of the link between study and job and its application by Fidel Castro as a principle of the Cuban Education, from his own experience along the years, as well as from the study of the newest in terms of medical teaching and pedagogy and through the observation and analysis of the medical education tendencies in the different countries he visited. His conception was getting wide in content, from being considered as a teaching form of organization, to being understood as a leading principle of medical education, in a close relationship with the teaching – assistive – investigative integration and the problem solving method together with the development of cognitive independency and of a creative thought. His postulates keep current, at the same time they get updated and generate new researches. Its correct application allows to improve medical assistance and the quality of services. In this direction it was possible to confirm considerable enhancements in some dimensions of creativeness in third year medical students who attend “Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández” University Hospital in Matanzas, which supports the theoretical foundations in the praxis. Also, the students’ levels of satisfaction increased highly