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EDUMECENTRO
versão On-line ISSN 2077-2874
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FERRIOL RODRIGUEZ, Marta Rosa et al. Integration of the Herbal and Folk Medicine to the Internal Medicine: a contemporary curricular necessity. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2016, vol.8, suppl.1, pp. 5-17. ISSN 2077-2874.
Background: the Herbal and Folk Medicine constitutes an effective and innocuous method that enriches the therapeutic arsenal of the western medicine. Objective: to design methodological actions for the incorporation of the contents of Herbal and Folk Medicine to the subject Internal Medicine. Methods: it was carried out a development investigation within the qualitative approach in the University Hospital "Arnaldo Milián Castro", from April to June 2013, with students of third year of the Medicine career; methods of the theoretical level were used: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction and empiric ones: the documental analysis, the observation, and the survey in interview form. Results: through the revision of the Study Plan of the Internal Medicine subject in the 3rd year of the career, the observation to activities and the interview to the professors, it was verified that the level of integration of its contents with the Herbal and Folk Medicine is not still the one desired, it is insufficient the methodological treatment carried out for the implementation of this curricular strategy. On the base of the previous results, methodological actions were designed to integrate their contents in the treatment of some of the diseases that contemplates the Internal Medicine discipline. Conclusions: the designed actions allow the integration of the contents and they were valued as effective by their methodology, relevancy, feasibility and relevance.
Palavras-chave : Interdisciplinary; integration; currículum; internal medicine; natural and traditional medicine; education, medical.