Abstract

HIDALGO FERNANDEZ, Alain Justo; BETANCOURT PEREZ, Amelia  and  PEREZ GARCIA, Gréter. Educational software on prenatal attention for the formation of the Medicine career students. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.3, pp. 46-59. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the methodology for the prenatal attention consists on a group of consultations and previous cares to the childbirth; it has experienced modifications according to the current knowledge and the development of the Cuban health system. Objective: to design an educational software on prenatal attention for the students of Medicine. Methods: it was carried out a study, with a qualitative approach during the academic year 2012-2013 in Villa Clara Gynecological-obstetric Hospital. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and historical-logical for the theoretical foundations on the topic, bibliographic review and evolution of the concepts; and those related with the information and communication technologies; empiric: documental analysis of the program, methodological orientations and basic texts; and the survey to students and professors to determine the knowledge on the mentioned methodology, and to base the necessity of an educational software as a teaching aid and mathematics for the absolute and relative values. Results: lacks exist on the methodology for the prenatal control, in regard to diagnostic procedures for pregnancy, in topics like Iso-inmunization and Pregnancy, parameters related with glycemic control and glucose tolerance test; professors declare that the time assigned for the topic is enough, although they recognize the necessity to apply a new approach to the contents, and the design of an educational software. Conclusions: the elaborated product is novel, it has been designed according to the tools that propitiate ample interaction, and it possesses a correct pedagogic and scientific-methodological approach. The consulted specialists valued it as adequate.

Keywords : Software; prenatal care; students, medical.

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