Abstract

GONZALEZ DIAZ, Elena del Carmen et al. APUNTUSOFT: tool for the learning of folk medicine integrated to Morphology. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.3, pp. 36-53. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the use of Information and Communication Technologies allows a better implementation of the curricular strategy of herbal and folk Medicine in the medical sciences. Objective: to develop an educational software for the learning of acupuncture points integrated to the musculoskeletal system in the Morphology discipline. Methods: a developmental research was developed in the period January-April 2016, in "Dr. José Assef Yara "Faculty of Medical Sciences at Ciego de Ávila University of Medical Sciences. Theoretical methods were used: historical-logical, from concrete to abstract, inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic and systemic-structural; and empirical ones: the documentary review and the survey in questionnaire form was applied to students and experts based on external evaluators of the product. Results: it was verified that there are insufficiencies in the availability of literature related to the 18 points of acupuncture of the Atan Dale Ralph system, necessary to facilitate the learning process; so APUNTUSOFT software was created, using Chreasoft 3.2, Adobe Photoshop 8.0, Format Factory 2.7 and Microsoft Office 2010, which was evaluated by experts and users criteria. Conclusions: during the assessment the computing product was considered very adequate in most of the indicators, so it is valid and useful in teaching, with capacity to meet learning needs in these issues.

Keywords : medicine, chinese tradicional; multimedia; medical studies; integrative discipline.

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