Introduction:

Distance education is a teaching - learning system, with partial or total characteristics, which is developed through information and communication technologies, using a bidirectional method between teachers and students. This system substitutes the traditional method used (

personal interaction in the classroom), for a tutoring one in which the students are responsible for their own training process.

Objective:

To design a system of actions to implement the distance education in the career of Health Information System.

Method:

To perform this work, an applied and descriptive research with a dialectical materialist approach was carried out in the career - Health Information Systems at the Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”, Pinar del Rio. The historical-logical method was used as theoretical level techniques and also as empirical level methods, documentary review and participatory observation were used too.

Results:

The outcomes achieved through a critical analysis of teaching - learning process and the distance education, allowed to design a system of actions to be implemented in the career - Health Information Systems.

Conclusions:

Many difficulties found have reveled lack of theoretical, pedagogical and methodological preparation on teachers and tutors, as well as lack of cognitive preparation of students concerning this process.

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