Requerimientos metodológicos para la orientación nutricional naturalista desde el currículo de la carrera de Medicina

Introduction: the training of general practitioners is increasingly demanded in the primary healthcare level (PHC), in order to achieve efficiency, quality and satisfaction of the population with the health services provided by professionals.  In this sense, the modalities of Natural and Traditional Medicine contribute to such purpose, from the implementation in the study programs of the subjects which constitute the curriculum and their expression in the education at work. Objective: to elaborate the methodological requirements that contributes to the naturalistic nutritional orientation in the curriculum of the Medicine career. Method : methods of the theoretical level were used such as analysis and synthesis, logical history, documentary review of the curricular components, among others, which allowed the methodological foundation for the naturalistic nutritional orientation. Results: methodological requirements were developed, based on a set of essential relationships that make it possible to structure the content and teaching activities of the subjects with the elements of nutrition for the development of health promotion actions during education at work. Conclusions: the contents of the programs in the subjects of the base curriculum, own and optional/elective, of the Curriculum "D" in the Medicine career, contribute to the development of the naturalistic nutritional orientation, in the different scenarios of attention to the individual, the family and the community, which guarantees healthy lifestyles and improvement of the state of health in the population.