ACERCAMIENTO A LA MEDICINA MORTAL DEL NAZISMO

Any discussion of the events that occurred in Germany during the period between 1933 and 1945, includes a debate about the role that German medicine played in them. A bibliographic review was carried out with the objective of arguing the importance that medicine had for the establishment and development of the Nazi Regime, for which 15 bibliographies were consulted. The Nazi doctors participated in the development and application of methods of mass extermination, being responsible for the murder and sterilization of thousands of people. In the concentration camps they conducted experiments on humans and selected individuals who would die. German medical research and education institutes benefited from the corpses of the deceased. The study of the role of medicine in Nazism can be a means that contributes to the training of health professionals and thus avoid the repetition of these events

Movimiento de alumnos ayudantes: experiencia de una institución cubana

Resumen: El movimiento de alumnos ayudantes surge como una necesidad ante el éxodo masivo de profesionales al comienzo de la revolución cubana. A más de 5 décadas de creado conserva total vigencia al perfeccionarse y adecuarse continuamente a los dinámicos requerimientos sociales del país. En este artículo se describe la experiencia del Hospital Universitario Arnaldo Milián Castro en el trabajo con los alumnos ayudantes en el período entre 2011 y 2016, enfatizando sus logros y desafíos en el cumplimiento de sus principales objetivos en la educación médica superior cubana: apoyar el desarrollo del proceso docente educativo, dirigir la orientación profesional hacia especialidades que se encuentran en déficit y adquirir de forma acelerada habilidades como docente, investigativas y propias de la especialidad. Abstract: The teaching-support student movement arose out of the necessity to cover the lack of teachers caused by the massive exodus of professionals at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. Five decades later it is still alive and continuously perfects and adjusts itself according to the dynamic social requirements of the country. This article intends to describe the experience acquired at the University Hospital “Arnaldo Milián Castro” based on the work of teaching-support students in the period from 2011 to 2016, emphasising its achievements and challenges in the fulfilment of its main objectives in Cuban higher medical education such as: to support the development of the instructional and educational process, to address the professional orientation towards specialities deficient in professionals and to quickly acquire skills for teaching, research, and those related to specialities. Palabras clave: Educación médica, Recursos humanos en salud, Internado y residencia, Especialización, Cuba, Keywords: Medical education, Health manpower, Internship and residency, Specialisation, Cub