Teaching Professionalization of the Doctor Guarantee for Sustainable Development

Man has no perception of risk and is destroying his own habitat! The human race is in danger of disappearing! It is well known that...


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Man has no perception of risk and is destroying his own habitat! The human race is in danger of disappearing! It is well known that in recent years due to the action of man there have been notable changes in climatic conditions that have impacted on human health.
Extreme air temperatures contribute to deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, especially among the elderly [1][2][3]. Climate changes are likely to prolong the transmission stations of important vector-borne diseases and alter their geographical distribution, for example diseases such as schistosomiasis, malaria and dengue fever can increase and expand the epidemic map [1]. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause an additional 250,000 deaths each year due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and caloric stress [4]. Meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement could save around one million lives annually by 2050, only considering the goal of reducing air pollution [2,4].Since 1959, it has been the will of the Cuban government to improve the health of the population based on a strategy of the Ministry of Public Health in Cuba whose purpose would be to optimize and increase the efficiency and preventive-care quality in health services, to ensure sustainability of the system despite economic constraints [5].
The formulation of climate change adaptation measures must include all sectors of society. In Cuba the state has created mechanisms to prepare the population, adopting measures that involve the country's educational centres. An example of this is the life task, which is a Cuban State Plan for confronting climate change. Climate Change (Task Life) was highlighted, which is based on raising the perception of risk and increasing knowledge and the participation of the population in the adaptation to climate change, fostering a culture for saving water and energy resources [7].
The doctor who needs today's society must not only diagnose and treat diseases but must also prevent them. But to properly train these future doctors, it is necessary to have a competent Cloister, who has knowledge of the profession, but also pedagogical preparation, which provides the necessary tools so that he can transmit knowledge while forming skills and values necessary for the output profile of the medical staff you are training. Assuming that the doctor, because of his quality as such, is qualified to teach, and therefore, that his students learn, is part of the past. The challenge is to go further; It is imperative to have the implementation of properly structured programs, based on the need's assessment within each school and with a study of its impact [8]. To be a professor of a medical school, it is not enough to be a good health professional, but you must achieve the skills for teacher professionalization.
Hence, it is appropriate to reflect on how the medicine professor is and should be the role of other doctors and what strategies the responsible and adequately pedagogical exercise of their work in the classroom and in the practice, scenarios present [9].
Regarding climate change and its consequences, the teacher's work is focused on preparing future doctors in the adaptation and positive transformation of the environment, as well as providing them with the necessary tools to educate the population in taking action under mitigate the negative effects that climate change generates on health. Communicable diseases such as dengue, malaria, schistosomiasis, which currently threaten the world, can be preventable if appropriate health measures are used by health authorities in joint work with the entire population. To ensure sustainable development, everyone's joint work is needed, but with a common objective and intentionality.