Abstract

RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ, Zenén; RIZO RODRIGUEZ, Raúl Ramón  and  MIRABAL FARINAS, Amparo. Modalities of diagnostic discussion as an activity of education at work in higher medical education. Educ Med Super [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.3, pp.204-214. ISSN 0864-2141.

The main form of organization of the teaching educational process in higher medical education, both for the training of the basic practitioner and the specialists, is education at work, turned into a teaching method and declared as the guiding principle of Cuban medical education. The different varieties of case report and their diagnostic discussion are based on the application of the scientific method in medical sciences (clinical or epidemiological). Their interrelation with the pedagogical categories and fundamental didactic principles constitutes the fundamental modality of education at care-delivery educational teaching work, for the training of health professionals (in undergraduate and postgraduate studies) at the higher medical education centers, for both the medical major and the nursing degree. This article aimed at some suggestions for its effective development in the teaching and care teaching process, which may be useful for health professionals who work in those specialties systematically practiced.

Keywords : education at work; diagnostic discussion; clinical method; epidemiological method; pedagogic categories; didactic principles; higher medical education.

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