Introduction:

Health majors are characterized by having a rigorous scientific base, which provides them with the essential foundations for future professionals to develop research, specializations or deepening in a given area. The present work incorporates a virtual forum of free and voluntary participation for the students of the subject Integrated Diagnosis of the dental medicine major, through a closed Facebook group.

Objective:

To assess the progress of learning transfer of the cognitive and metacognitive strategies in the students of dental medicine from University of Concepción, with the application of the clinical case analysis methodology in a virtual forum.

Method:

The clinical case analysis methodology was used to improve learning transfer. A mixed methodology was used: qualitative with content analysis through focus groups and quantitative with quasi-experimental method of pre- and post-test with the Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Learning Strategies of University Students. Sixty-eight students participated who took the Integrated Diagnosis course in 2017 and who expressed their decision to participate voluntarily through writing.

Results:

Learning transfer improved in all students. Those who participated more in the forum obtained better performance in the subject. All of them recognized that it was significant learning for their future professional performance. Declarative knowledge and awareness increased their mean and percentage values for positive options. In contrast, procedural knowledge, control and autopoiesis decreased their mean values, while the percentage values increased for negative options and indecision.

Conclusions:

The methodology developed was a success because it increased learning transfer.

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