2007, Number 3
Cine y literatura como elementos para la mediación pedagógica: Una experiencia desde la medicina familiar
Ciuffolini MB, Didoni M, Jure H, Piñero A
Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 142-145
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ABSTRACT
Objectives: Our aims were to facilitate critical reflection with respect to the foundations that sustain the practice of the Family Medicine, and to promote the use of cinematographic and literary resources as instruments of pedagogic mediation. Design: We carried out a descriptive, transversal, quail-quantitative study. Methods: The study universe was shaped by the total number of students (198) in two postgraduate courses developed by the Department of Family Medicine at Cordoba National University in Argentina. Surveys, focus groups, and participant observation were performed. Results: Global study results show that in 99% of cases, the resources employed facilitated reflection with regard to the characteristics of the practice. We observed a nearly complete association (90%) between the contents of the resources utilized and those of the seminar. Discrimination according to the utilized resource (cinema or literature) exhibited no significant differences. Qualitative information analysis demonstrated an adequate ability of the resource (cinema/literature) for motivating reflection on proper medical practice and analysis and comprehension of the proper contents of Family Medicine. Conclusions: Literary and cinematographic means constitute an educational resource with marked potential for critical analysis of medical practice, for identifying the theoretical suppositions that support this, and creating and recreating, all these making possible the balanced development of the scientific and technical as well as the human aspects that are linked with the formation of the Family Physician.REFERENCES