Abstract

CHAOS CORREA, Tamara; VALDES DE LA ROSA, Cecilia; ESTRADA RODRIGUEZ, Janice  and  LLANES RODRIGUEZ, Alberto. System of teaching tasks to develop professional abilities through the subject Integral General Medicine in fifth year of Medicine. AMC [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.4, pp. 405-418. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: the teaching process in the universities should be aimed at training a professional committed to social reality from his profession in its three dimensions: instructive, educative, and developing. A mode of action that includes knowledge, abilities and values should be formed corresponding with the social mission. Objective: to design a system of teaching tasks to develop professional abilities in different modes of the subject Integral General Medicine (IGM) in fifth year of Medicine that are specific activities of that specialty. Methods: a total of 86 articles of pedagogical researches published in SciELO and in the database of the Ministry of Higher Education were reviewed. Some articles from international education journals and two master’s degree theses were also review. Thirty-five citations were selected for making the review; 27 were from the last five years. The proposed system of tasks could be designed by means of theoretical and empirical methods. Conclusions: a good use of the potential of education in the work in Primary Health Care _directly linked to the future profession and the development of skills_ is made with the development of the mentioned tasks. The characteristics of the methodological work of the professors of the mentioned subject to face a teaching-learning process according to the development of professional abilities are also determined. The implementation of the teaching tasks contributes to the development of cognitive independence, to the practice of the operational system of abilities for the application of the clinical epidemiological method, and to the function of the graduate of providing integral medical care.

Keywords : APTITUDE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; STAFF DEVELOPMENT; TEACHING; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC.

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