Introduction:

cancers of the digestive tract constitute an important medical burden worldwide due to their high prevalence and mortality. Educational technologies are inherent elements of development in all spheres of life and among them; educational software stands out for the great benefits it brings to the teaching-learning process.

Objective:

to develop educational software to favor the teaching of oncological diseases of the digestive tract or system in the subject of General Surgery.

Methods:

a technological development research was carried out, which complies with a study in the fourth-academic year of the Medicine major at Mariana Grajales Coello School of Medical Sciences, corresponding to the subjects Neoplasias of the digestive tract of the General Surgery course. The target group comprised all fourth year-academic students, and the sample included those who participated in the research.

Results:

educational software was developed as a resource for the learning of the subject of neoplasias of the digestive tract for fourth-academic year students of Medicine major. It is structured by modules: introduction, syllabus, glossary, media library, complements, exercises, games and help, with an attractive and motivating design. Results were obtained regarding the fundamental teaching-learning processes.

Conclusions:

the software developed constitutes the fundamental basis for the computerization of the basic teaching-learning processes of Neoplasia of the digestive tract of the General Surgery subject. The development of the software gives a solution to a great extent to the planned problem; its application was assessed as effective.

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