Regularities of the professional improvement process of general practitioners for the early diagnosis of oral communication disorders

Introduction: professional development (PS) is a permanent need for specialists in General Comprehensive Medicine (MGI) to face challenges in relation to the early detection of oral communication (OC) disorders, which have significant repercussions on social relations. Objective: to characterize the initial state of the professional development process (PSP) of MGI for the early diagnosis of OC disorders at the University Polyclinic “Hermanos Cruz de Pinar del Río”.Methods: The dialectic method was used as the guiding method and at the empirical level, documentary review, scientific observation, interviews, surveys and descriptive statistics. Results: the regularities of the PSP of the MGI for the early diagnosis of CO alterations constitute that: it is not developed from the identification of the MGI's needs for the early diagnosis of OC alterations, so there is no correspondence between the planned activities-renewal of contents-expected professional performance; in the planning of the PS, the different organizational forms that favor this process are not taken into account, nor the methods-means-forms relationships that privilege learning at this level and the potentialities of group work and the most updated technological resources are not taken advantage of. Conclusions: the PSP of the MGI for the early diagnosis of CO alterations has insufficiencies related to: the identification of the MGI's needs for the early diagnosis of CO alterations that limit their professional performance.