Abstract

BASTART ORTIZ, Emma Aurora; REYES MEDIACEJA, Reinaldo  and  TAMAYO REUS, Caridad María. Epistemological considerations about the teaching of professional skills in Pediatrics. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2014, vol.6, n.2, pp. 31-43. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: a characterization is done about the current status in the training of professional skills for the care of children and adolescents in the subject Pediatrics, at the Medical Faculty number 2 of the Medical Sciences University of Santiago de Cuba. Objective: to characterize the training of professional skills in the subject Pediatrics in the above mentioned Faculty. Methods: theoretical, analysis-synthesis, dialectical-hermeneutical, and structural systemic; empirical, documentary analysis of the subject syllabus, surveys to students and teachers, and observation of the ways of performance of teachers and students in activities of education through work, and statistical methods. Results: insufficiencies were verified at the level of curricular microdesign, regarding the system of skills and the dynamics of the teaching-learning process in the subject Pediatrics, related to the skills of the health professionals; a lack of integrality was detected in the teaching-learning process, centered in the cognitive level; also deficiencies were found in their performance, in respect to not teaching, educating and developing the students simultaneously; it was also detected a passive role of the students, and the activities in the education through work were not structured for developing creativity, reflection and independence. Conclusions: the analysis of the study corroborates the relevance of the research theme and the need of a conceptualization of the teaching-learning process of the General Doctor in the subject Pediatrics, from the inconsistencies that are shown in the process of structuring its system of skills.

Keywords : training; developing learning; professional skills; Pediatrics.

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