Health problem and its teaching translation as an integrating didactic tool for curriculum design in the medical school

The present paper organized information that supports problem based learning as an educational strategy of choice whenever integration and curricular contextualization are required to develop a doctor that should be a communicator, able to work in teams and educate the individual and the community to live a healthy life as well as highlight and manage with capacity and professionalism those aggressiveness to health. The Primary Health Care teaching scenarios where Cuban doctors are formed, enable the design and creation of a more revolutionary learning model where the identification of the prevailing health problems may become an essential curriculum tool, whose didactic transformation to teaching problems may enable to achieve competences and professional performance;in this way, problem based learning occurs within and for Primary Health Care. © 2013 2002, Editorial Ciencias Médicas.