La formación extensionista desde la Historia de Cuba para estudiantes de Ciencias Médicas

Introduction: university extension program arises as a consequence of a historical process aimed at achieving the opening and democratization of university institutions. In its curricular and extracurricular dimension it assumes socio-political approaches. Objective: to design a pedagogical strategy to improve the process of extension programs for the students of the University of Medical Sciences by means of the teaching-learning process of History of Cuba. Method: qualitative methods of information, through interviews to 21 professors of History of Cuba discipline in the School of Medicine at Pinar del Rio University of Medical Sciences and the studies of historical documents. Results: 100% of the professors state that in Cuba there are personalities of history with advanced thinking about the humanistic health, salubriousness, and social policies. The strategy proposes the study of the thoughts of Felix Varela, Finlay, Jose Marti and Fidel Castro. Conclusions: the strategy consists of workshops, courses, seminars, an interactive panel of didactic-educational values, the political and ideological values needed in current scientific-technical conditions are influencing on the depersonalization of Cuban ideology, the aspects related with the achievements of Cuban ideology  must be reinforced in the ways of acting of the future health professionals.