Fundamentals of a task system for information management in medical education

Introduction: Higher Medical Education in Cuba has the mission of training professionals with a broad profile, a professional with a deep basic training, who will be able to face and solve the most general and frequent problems that arise in the work practice, having independence and creativity , for professionals who are trained in medical specialties it is a challenge to discern between the enormous amount of the existing information and the high quality that is available in the various media these graduates have access. Objective: to design of a system of teaching tasks to train and develop the ability to manage scientific information according to the professional performance. Method: dialectical- materialist method as articulator of the rest of the methods used, among them the empirical methods used were: surveys, interviews to experts, documentary analysis and as methods of theoretical level: historical-logical, modeling and structural systemic. Results: the characterization of the teaching task is proposed for the training and development of the ability to manage scientific information from a systemic, contextualized and interdisciplinary approach based on the development of the professional performance. Conclusions: the system of these teaching tasks was characterized from a systemic, contextualized and interdisciplinary approach, as auxiliary means to design new tasks and apply them to the achievement of the general objectives of the training process for the physicians, taking into account the specific characteristics of the students and a didactic approach for the training and development of the ability to manage scientific information.