Abstract

SEGURA MARTINEZ, Noraima; PEREZ MARTINEZ, Elsi  and  PEREZ LOYOLA, Maritza. Main profile of the facilitators and their opinion in the teaching of Morphophisiology to medical students in the polyclinics, course 2008-09. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2010, vol.9, n.3, pp. 423-432. ISSN 1729-519X.

The implementation of the subject morphophysiology in the new medical curricula since the school course 2007-2008, has brought along a new complex situation, the need of crash training course for tutors, who are mainly the comprehensive general doctors linked to primary care who will be responsible to face the new teaching process challenges. The aim of this paper is to provide a profile of the facilitators who taught this Morpho- physiology II subject in the polyclinics attached to the Manuel Fajardo medical school in Havana city, as well as to identify the degree of satisfaction, how the difficulties were solved and the suggestions for the upgrading of the process. A descriptive, non-experimental, transversal research was done. A survey was applied, with the previous informed consent in which the age, gender, teaching rank, teaching experience, and criteria about teaching process were all included. Most of the facilitators were women, aged between 30-40 years old, with little or no teaching experience, and without any pedagogical training and they were recently ranked as teaching instructors. They taught the subject mostly in a fragmented way, Several complaints were issued, among them we have: lack of time for teaching self-preparation, the late arrival of the teaching material, the materials needs, wrong functioning of the teaching aids, lack of practical activities and besides, the long assistance working hours. The main suggestion is to provide the tutors with more training and get with plenty time ahead the needed printed literature for classes.

Keywords : Morphophysiology; facilitators.

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