Desarrollar la inteligencia emocional a través de la labor del profesor guía

Background: the work of the guidance teacher requires the knowledge and influence of emotional intelligence as a way to develop a revolutionary ethic, humanistic, and adequate citizen behavior in the training processes of their students, to successfully meet the academic, scientific and socio-political purposes and requirements of society. Objective: to elaborate activities to develop the emotional intelligence of medical science students through the work of the guidance teacher. Methods: a development research was carried out at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences during the 2015-2016 academic year. Methods of the theoretical level were used: historicallogical, analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, transition from the abstract to the concrete and systemic-structural; and of the empirical level: documentary analysis, scientific observation, surveys in the form of interviews with teaching executives and students. Results: it was diagnosed that there is insufficient knowledge about emotional intelligence, and its role in the training of health professionals, in addition to the fact that the need to work in order to develop it from the ruling documents and the management processes is not intentional, so activities were developed for this purpose, which were assessed by specialists. Conclusions: they were considered adequate for the formulation of their objectives, their structure and their correspondence with the policies of the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Public Health. Fundamento: la labor del profesor guía requiere del conocimiento e influencia de la inteligencia emocional como vía de desarrollo de una ética revolucionaria, humanista, y de adecuado comportamiento ciudadano en los procesos de formación de sus estudiantes, para que cumplan con éxito los fines académicos, científicos y sociopolíticos exigidos por la sociedad.Objetivo: elaborar actividades para desarrollar la inteligencia emocional de los estudiantes de ciencias médicas a través de la labor del profesor guía.Métodos: se realizó una investigación de desarrollo en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara durante el curso 2015-2016. Se utilizaron métodos de nivel teórico: histórico-lógico, análisis-síntesis, inducción-deducción, tránsito de lo abstracto a lo concreto y sistémico-estructural; y empíricos: análisis documental, observación científica, encuestas en forma de entrevistas a directivos docentes y estudiantes.Resultados: se diagnosticó que resultan