SUMMARY
The development of the teaching-educational process starts with its design, but sometimes it is left to the spontaneity, inspiration and common sense of the professors who teach the discipline or those on charge of the curricular design, provoking deficiencies in the results that might be expected, due to the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary character of the curricular design is not taken into consideration, and is not sustained by scientific basis, not only for its planning and organization, but also for its implementation and control, since the quality of the process might be guaranteed from its beginnings. This research paper is aimed at offering the scientific basis of the curricular design of a science that is taken to the teaching-educational process through a discipline of Medical Studies, which includes the scientific basis of a particular science considering didactic, psychological, sociological, philosophical and epistemological bases. DeCS: Curricular design; scientific bases of curricular design; scientific bases of a particular science, didactic bases; psychological bases.