Abstract

MEJIAS CHAO, Tania et al. Instructive material for teaching of the subjects Medicine for Disasters 1 and 2. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2014, vol.6, n.2, pp. 172-183. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: taking into account the lack of updated bibliography in the subjects Medicine for Disasters 1 and 2 on the themes Role of the Community in Facing Disasters: importance of their training, and Organization of the Health System for Facing Disasters, it was prepared an instructive material. Objective: to prepare an instructive material for the teaching of the above mentioned subjects, that supplies the identified lack of bibliography. Methods: a descriptive transversal study was done, the universe was made up of the 12 teachers of the Public Health Department of the Villa Clara Medical Sciences University who make up the staff of the subjects Medicine for Disasters 1 and 2, during the period from December 2012 to February 2013. Theoretical and empirical methods were used, as well as percentage analysis of the results. Results: it was possible to prepare an instructive material that contributes to solve the lack of bibliography related with these themes, that are taught to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Public Health, which was validated as useful and pertinent by the criteria of specialists. Conclusions: the proposed material has been extremely useful to the students of fourth and fifth years of the Latin American School of Medicine who study at the Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences, and to professionals who take postgraduate courses on Public Health, and to their professors.

Keywords : instructive material; medicine for disasters; medical studies.

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