Experience of the design and implementation of a General Training Course about Migration and Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile

Abstract

The current demographic reality of Chile is marked by the irruption of international immigration which has generated an impact on the different levels of the social structure, including - obviously - the heal- the field. Given this context, the Grupo de Trabajo Migración y Salud (Working Group: Migration and Health), designs and implements a general training course on the subject, with the aim of providing tools to students of health careers, related to this new demographic configuration. Objective: to describe the experience of the teaching team in the creation and implementation of a general training course about migration and health in the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Chile. Material and methods: to describe this experience, we used the Kern model that is related to the curricular de- sign within the health area, based on six stages that require the review of training needs from the perspective of different relevant actors in the process. Results: the implementation of the course allowed the delivery of contents for the understanding of the migratory phenomenon, in the context of health care, it had a positive evaluation by the participants and the evaluation allows a considerable improvement for future versions.