Abstract

LINARES GUERRA, Maritza; CAPOTE MARTINEZ, Rafael  and  FONTE MEDINA, Nohary. Assessment of the design of contents of the I - Morphology - Phisiology Subject in medical students. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.3, pp. 75-83. ISSN 1561-3194.

ABSTRACT To make a critical assessment of the contents of the 1 Human Morphology _Phisiology as part of the evaluation of the curricular design of this subject. The municipal teaching of medical sciences demands a re-design of the teaching programs of the Medicine Study Plan according to the basic demands that the current curricula should have as the knowledge a s a whole, as well as the morphology-phisiology subject, being the latest the most important example in the basic area. For a succesfull implementation it is necessary a whole program and a high grade of objectivity in contents. Those contents selected for its design are related to the health problems which appear in the Medicine Study Plan which allow the development of those skills related to the primary health care, however, a real selection of the objectivity of contents of the biomedical subject has not been done yet separately. The structure of these contents should attend the current demands. i e, more flexible structures for the students, more integrated cognitive representations, however, it is not observed a whole integrity. In the current design of contents of I Morphology Phisiology subject it is not observed a proper selection of the objectives as well as a level of integrity of knowledge which is expected

Keywords : knowlege; medicine; morphology/physiology.

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