Pedagogical tools with interprofessional approach for the preparation of the teaching staff

Reflection on interprofessional education, a pedagogical trend to which organizations such as the WHO / PAHO attach relevant importance to the training of health professionals. Different bibliographic sources were consulted, as well as current and normative documents in force in the teaching of medical sciences, with the aim of characterizing interprofessional education, an educational aspect that has taken boom worldwide and demonstrating that, to achieve its development in Cuba , it is necessary to prepare the teaching staff. Fourteen actions are proposed that can become useful tools to achieve such preparation. It was concluded that interprofessional health care teams optimize their members' skills to provide holistic, patient-centered and high quality services. In this sense, interprofessional education is a necessary step to prepare the staff, to achieve collaboration and respose to health needs in a dynamic environment. Hence its importance as a strategy aimed at strengthening the capacity of human resources, improving results or indicators and, in addition, strengthening health systems.