Professional development process on metabolic syndrome in pregnancy aimed at specialists in Family Medicine

ntroduction: solving the health problems affecting the population is a starting point for the design of professional development Objective: to develop a strategy for professional development on metabolic syndrome in pregnancy that will enable the efficient performance of family medicine specialists (FMS) certified or not in prenatal care at the “Hermanos Cruz” teaching polyclinic in Pinar del Río. Development: the research is based on the Dialectical Materialist approach which allowed for a deeper knowledge of the process and its interrelations in the historical social conditions of postgraduate education in Family Medicine, revealing its main contradictions, selecting, justifying and integrating theoretical, empirical and statistical methods, as well as addressing postulates of parameterization theory, in order to apply them in an integrated and consistent manner to the research. From an ethical point of view, this research respected the ethical principles set out in the Declaration of Helsinki. Conclusions: the contextualized strategy fulfills the aims of achieving efficient performance in the management of maternal and child indicators and the constant improvement in the postgraduate training of specialists in Family Medicine at the Hermanos Cruz teaching polyclinic in Pinar del Río.