Guillen EAL, Ramirez MC, Castillo AN

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: integrated teaching is a current issue in contemporary pedagogy and a challenge in the design of training programs at the international level. Objective: to assess the relationship established by students between the contents of the subject Physics with biomedical phenomena. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at the Julio Trigo López School of the Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz de Villa Clara Medical Sciences University, during the period from February to June 2016. Theoretical methods, analysis-synthesis were used and induction-deduction; empirical, documentary analysis and three test of associations to verify the association of the contents of the subject Physics with biomedical phenomena; and statistics, absolute and relative frequency analysis and non-parametric Chi square test. Results: it was confirmed that students associated concepts that had nothing to do with each other, did not associate those that did have a close relationship, manifested a tendency to associate concepts only by one type of association: analogy, and made few associations to given concepts when this required a higher level of thought. Conclusions: there are difficulties in the relationship established by students between the contents of the subject Physics with biomedical phenomena, especially in the integrated formation of concepts and their cognitive structure. There is a risk of affecting the teaching-learning process from basic to clinical.