Peña AMM, Arada RA, Herrera MGL, Rodríguez GYL, González UEL

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 77-88
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The new information and communication technologies have a relevant significance in this new model of medical training.
Objective: to validate educative software designed for developing practical-professional skills for the subject Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Material and methods: an observational and prospective research was carried out with undergraduate students of the Medicine, who in the first semester rotated by the subject Gynecology and Obstetrics at Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital of Pinar del Río, during the academic year 2012-2013. The sample was made up of 288 students from the fourth and sixth academic years of the major, who were interviewed before and after the software implementation.
Results: an educative software was designed made up of three fundamental parts including contents of Obstetrics, Gynecology and self-evaluation questions with their answers. Evaluation was performed before and after the software; all of the students manifested having understood the presented contents. Regarding the informatization of the subject, both students and professors coincide on the fact that it allows facilitation of the nearing process, is motivating and stimulating for studying, as a teaching aid, it helps understand the common practice of the specialty and communication among students and professors.
Conclusions: the designed software provides the students with continuous learning and self-evaluation with a useful methodological and didactic approach to reinforce theoretical and practical learning of the subject. Its creation constitutes a response to a real need fulfilled with the implementation of this teaching aid.

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