Intercultural relations between students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas

Abstract

The need to develop intercultural health processes has been generated in Latin American, Caribbean and other countries, for various historical reasons. In the last decades, interculturality in health or intercultural health, have been indistinctly used concepts to designate the set of actions and policies to know the cultural referents and incorporate the culture of the other in the process of relationship between cultural groups, which coexist in an environment shared. Cuban higher education is not alien to intercultural demand. Professionals of different nationalities and continents are trained in the country. It presents an approach aimed at promoting mutual respect and understanding among all students, regardless of their cultural, linguistic, ethnic or religious origin, emanating from the revealing presence of foreign students who study Medicine in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Las Tunas. The relationships that occur between students through intercultural communication are explained, given the tendency to increase enrollment and the integral nature of professional training that emphasizes, together with the scientific and technical, the humanistic, in a global society. The strengthening of culture, identity and interculturality in university education in the 21st century in medical sciences demands adequate intercultural relations, where intercultural dialogue is the priority as a result of the educational process from the student brigades.