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Adela Hernández Díaz
El presente artículo muestra resultados fundamentales de la investigación realizada por la autora principal y su tutora, como parte de la tesis de maestría en Ciencias de la Educación Superior: “La Competencia Comunicativa Intercultural en la Educación Médica Posgraduada a través del idioma inglés: una propuesta para su desarrollo”, en Cuba, que tuvo como objetivo el diseño del curso de postgrado de Inglés con Fines Específicos, orientado al desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa intercultural a médicos seleccionados para el cumplimiento de misiones en países de habla inglesa o donde el inglés se utilice como lengua franca1; dado la carencia de propuestas escolarizadas de superación de estos especialistas ante los retos de su actividad profesional.
This article describes the results of the investigation “Developing Communicative Intercultural Competence in Medical Postgraduate Education in Cuba through English”, a master´s degree thesis whose aim was to design a postgraduate course of English for Specific Purposes which would focus on the development of the communicative competence of doctors going to health missions in English-speaking countries or where English is spoken as a lingua franca.This course is based on Developmental Pedagogy, the Communicative Approach and Task-Based Learning. It emphasizes cultural and important intercultural issues to be kept in mind during doctor-patient interviews, doctor-doctor relationships and doctor-family exchanges in a professional context so as to make it possible to establish cultural differences and similarities between the students´ culture and the foreign country´s culture.This is an exploratory investigation with a fundamentally quantitative focus using resources of the qualitative one. This design is a curricular document with all its didactic components, aimed at the development of intercultural communicative competence that responds to the current needs of the participants.
