Introduction:

The vertical internship in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is part of the new strategies of the Ministry of Public Health for the training of professionals in a shorter time, in order to overcome the multiple challenges that public health faces. For this reason, current Cuban higher medical education has, among its many challenges, the improvement of the contents of methodological work in some of its levels and forms.

Objective:

To develop a methodological alternative based on blended attendance, for the teaching-learning process of the Trauma module of the vertical internship in the specialty of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.

Methods:

A descriptive, prospective, quasi-experimental research was carried out. The universe included 20 teachers directly related to the vertical internship. A post-test was applied to the respondents.

Results:

The diagnosis served as the basis for the design of the methodological alternative based on blended attendance, which is relevant, timely and useful to raise the epistemic and methodological level of good practices in the effective delivery of the aforementioned module in virtual learning environments. The result of the post-test applied 30 days after submitting the methodological alternative for consideration are reported on Likert scales, which were optimal.

Conclusions:

The implementation of the methodological alternative based on blended attendance to teach the contents of the Trauma module, is feasible and necessary.

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