Contributions to nursing and physiotherapy curricula in colombia from an analysis of training in perspective of critical interculturality

Abstract

Introduction: For the development of this research, concepts as biologicism in health, traditionally in the West assumed as the axis that responds to health needs. Objective: The study had as an objective to carry out from the analysis of curricular contents of health training programs, contributions from critical interculturality to training and curricular construction of academic programs in physiotherapy and nursing in Colombia. Materials and Methods: a review of the curriculum and professional profiles of programs accredited, according to the information system of the Ministry of Education National of Colombia being in total, 15 universities of the program of physiotherapy and 26 universities of the nursing program; Results: the review of the material showed as a result that the curricular content of the reviewed programs, in only three percent (3%) of the content of the 15 physiotherapy programs curricular elements are presented in key intercultural and five percent (5%) of the 26 nursing programs address this component. Conclusions: Educational Institutions Superior must be able to include in their resumes not only isolated subjects that deal with ephemeral concepts seen in diversity cultural; should propose curricula that, from a transversal perspective, address the critical interculturality in each of the subjects from attention to population, so that professional practice gains real significance in the Colombian multiethnic context