DIAGNOSIS OF THE ABILITY TO COMPREHENSIVELY TREAT PAIN IN MEDICAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF CIENFUEGOS

The insufficiency of the ability to comprehensively treat pain demands that Universities and their faculties look for alternatives in the training model that, from a historical and contextual conception, help to train this skill. It is essential in the professional performance of the General Practitioner, for pain is becoming a recurrent health problem in the population. Higher Education institutions are responding to this demand by studying skills building matters in theory and in practice. This article presents a diagnosis obtained by triangulating the data from surveys, interviews and documentary analysis, which revealed deficiencies in medical students' ability to comprehensively treat pain in Cienfuegos. The authors put forth of a system of learning tasks to contribute to the development of this skill, to be accomplished in the healthcare context through on-the-job education as a guiding principle of medical training.