Aguilar-Mejía E, Espinosa-Huerta E, Robles-Páramo A, García-Mangas JA, Palacios-Jiménez N

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social faces some problems and one of them is to promote research in health area, and development of teachers and researchers. With the support of the Fondo de Fomento a la Investigación (FOFOI) a project was developed through professors in order to create the Methodological Diplomat in Teaching First Level in those delegations that do not have a Centro de Investigación Educativa y Formación Docente (CIEFD) with the intention of have an alternative program for the institutional professors.
Material and methods: intervention study comparing before and after the interventions inside each group and among the groups of professors who are in the program Diplomat in Teaching First Level with different systems: a) full time at the CIEFD; b) program at distance with the help of tutors. Three dependent variables were explored: development of a position about education; critical theoric reading texts in education and critical reading of research reports in education.
Results: in the development of a position about education all the groups had an improve that was statistically significant (Wilcoxon ‹ 0.05); in the critical reading of theoric texts in education there were also significant differences, and the same encouraging results were observed in critical research reading reports in education (Wilcoxon ‹ 0.05).
Conclusion: under controlled circumstances, the program at distance with a visitor teacher is an adequate alternative for the formation of institutional professors.

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