Introduction:

The general training of professionals, and for the new social paradigm of medicine, demands the active participation of students in learning Marxist philosophy. This activity is difficult and not very meaningful to them once they start at the higher level. Heuristic conversation contributes to the teaching of Marxist philosophy.

Objective:

To design didactic procedures that condition the development of heuristic conversation in the teaching-learning of laws and principles of materialist dialectics.

Development:

Marxist psychology of a cultural-historical approach and contemporary higher education didactics make up the foundations of developmental learning through heuristic conversation. This type of conversation determines the increase of skills to approach the higher level in first-academic-year students. The didactic strategy promotes procedures for these students to discover the meaning of laws and principles, as well as for regressive moments in social development and their difference with respect to biological development to reveal manifestations in hermeneutic medical thinking and diagnosis.

Conclusions:

The designed procedures show heuristic conversation in the pedagogical practice for a meaningful learning of laws and principles, favoring the development of skills to face the higher level, and implies the appropriation of a scientific method for the interpretation of reality and the foundation of medical practice in its social paradigm.