Abstract

GONZALEZ JARAMILLO, Suleida; RECINO PINEDA, Uvaldo; ALVAREZ PEREZ, Yanelis  and  PEREZ CASTELLA, Yailén de la Caridad. Potentialities of the Medical Psychology to develop the strategic learning in the Medicine curriculum. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.2, pp. 7-18. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the curricular improvement should guarantee the capacity of the university students' self formation; learning how to learn constitutes a goal of any educational project, which transforms the strategic learning into the core of the educational investigations. Objective: to determine the didactic-methodological potentialities that offers the Medical Psychology discipline to develop the strategic learning in the students, in the Study Plan D of the Medicine career. Methods: it was carried out a descriptive investigation in "Lidia Doce Sánchez" Medical Sciences university site from Sagua la Grande; theoretical methods were applied, among them: analytic-synthetic, historical-logical and inductive-deductive, and empiric ones: analysis of documents, semi-structured interviews to key informants and triangulation of sources. Results: the Medical Psychology approaches contents that allow the integrated treatment of the strategic learning using its didactic and methodological orientations creatively, according to the proposed curriculum for the Study Plan D of the Medicine career, which recognizes the value of self-learning in the formation of general practitioners to influence upon the professional competences, declares a curricular strategy of pedagogic formation directed to learn how to learn; the strategic learning is developed on active methods, based on the solution of problems, where the reflexive and meta-cognitive elements prevail. Conclusions: the Medical Psychology discipline presents elements for the didactic and methodological treatment of the educational activity that facilitates the insertion of the strategic learning as a form of learning how to learn in the Study Plan D of the Medicine career.

Keywords : Curriculum; learning; medical studies; education, medical.

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