Background:

the creation of an embryoteque is a complex process, based on obtaining embryonic samples and / or histological-embryological series that have a high potential for research and teaching.

Objective:

to design a methodology for the creation of a human embryoteque, based on the experience of the existing one at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences.

Methods:

the qualitative methodology was used. Three stages of systematization were established that included: context, axis of systematization, key actors, instruments and techniques, categories and subcategories, historical reconstruction and critical analysis; and regularities derived from instruments contrasting, contributions and lessons learned. The semi-structured interview, observation, focus groups, systematization registration, the contrast of documentary and methodological sources, and assessment by specialists were used.

Results:

the methodology was structured in two devices: one theoretical or cognitive and one methodological or instrumental consisting of nine phases or concatenated stages. 11 governing categories and philosophical, psychological, sociological, methodological and pedagogical foundations were declared. Eleven stages or conditioning steps, flexible and dependent, are articulated, a procedure required to create a human embryos, according to the theoretical and practical experience systematized in the present investigation.

Conclusions:

the criteria of rigor that were taken into account speak in favor of the value of truth, neutrality, applicability and consistency of the result. According to the specialists who valued it, it complies with credibility, confirmability, transferability and dependence, thus it constitutes a methodological tool in the creation of a human embryoteque.

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