Distance tutoring: tutor´s actions in the Doctoral Training Strategy in the time of COVID 19

Foundation: during the epidemiological situation created by COVID- 19 pandemic, social distancing was imposed as a protection measure, so it was necessary to implement distance tutoring in the Doctoral Training Strategy of the Cienfuegos University of Medical Sciences.Objective: to determine tutors´ essential actions carried out online. Methods: theoretical level methods such as synthetic analytical, deductive inductive, systematization and system approach were used, and observation, documentary analysis and triangulation at the empirical level.Results: the tutor's essential actions for distance tutoring were specified, structured in a systemic way in the planning, execution and control stages in correspondence with the phases of the scientific research process. The results obtained so far are shown in the research progress by areas of knowledge in which they are preparing for dissertation, writing of the written report, as well as the fulfillment of the minimum exam requirements and publication of scientific articles, all through the aforementioned actions online. Conclusion: essential actions specified for the tutor, consolidated in the implemented proposal, have allowed continuing the training process in the Doctoral Strategy; There has been progress in the main aspects of the training process.