Abstract

PEREZ PEREA, Lizette; SEGREDO PEREZ, Alina María; QUINTANA GALENDE, María Luisa  and  DIAZ HERNANDEZ, Lázaro. Medical education basic course given by the National School of Public Health. Educ Med Super [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.1, pp.8-14. ISSN 0864-2141.

Broad and deep mastery of the subject that is taught constitutes the starting point for teaching practice; as the scientific training of professors in the field of education sciences is higher, the relevance, quality and efficiency of teaching increases. A descriptive study was conducted to characterize the three rounds of the basic medical education course taught at the National School of Public Health in the period of 2010 through 2012. The studied variables were curriculum, professors, teaching category of the course participants, student satisfaction, among others. The main results of the three rounds of this course held in the 2010-2011 and the 2011-2012 academic years were 48 teaching-linked health professionals were trained; 10.4 % of them had no teaching category, 39.6 % were instructors, 22.9 % with assistant category and all of them involved in the process of obtaining or raising their academic category. It should be noted that 27.1 % of the participants was assistant or full professor. The students generally expressed their great satisfaction with both the quality of the course program and the faculty who gave the course. It was concluded that the basic course in medical education provides professors with appropriate tools to delve into the process of teaching and learning, as well as to study the main contemporary trends, issues and challenges in the formation of human resources in the healthcare field.

Keywords : teaching-learning process; medical education; pedagogic preparation.

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