2018, Number 1
Curricular Strategy Public Health and Environmental Training at the Latin American School of Medicine
Vega MME, Urrutia FO, González AN, Graverán BA, Corrales SY
Language: Spanish
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Page: 36-40
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ABSTRACT
Objective: To describe the knowledge and the application of the strategy by the basic science’s professors at the Latin American Medicine School.Materials and Methods: A transverse descriptive study was done in the first semester of the academic course 2016-2017 at the Latin American Medicine School. Forty-three teachers belonging to this center were selected for the probabilistic sample. The collected data were processed using the professional statistic package SPSS version 11.5.They were used measurements for the qualitative data, and tables for displaying the information.
Results: 62,3 % of the professors have knowledge of the curricular strategy whereas the 43,3% of them had received orientations, mainly from the teaching staff, a 54,7% of the professors set out that the spreading and the generalization of the departmental work’s results about the strategy are insufficient.
Conclusions: The insufficient mastering strategy had been proved: tasks and contents on the part of basic sciences’ professors. The insufficient work based on the strategy in the area of the Public Health and the Environmental Formation, does not allow reflecting in the student’s scientific events and in pedagogical events the generalization of the labor in the very departments.