Abstract

RODRIGUEZ BELTRAN, Nancy María; PARDO GOMEZ, María Elena  and  IZQUIERDO LAO, José Manuel. Social impact of telemedicine on the professional training of the medical sciences students. MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.9, pp.1-12. ISSN 1029-3019.

Medical education and medical career are social practices whose aims and resources have to be historically defined, considering the needs of each country on this respect and the didactic reorientation that demands their scientific development so that the knowledge required to face epidemiologically and socially high-priority health situations can be accurately determined. Some of the general consequences related to the use of the information and communications technologies are analyzed in this work, particularly in the higher education, and how they become challenges that should be assumed by the universities, specifically of medical sciences, in the training of their professionals.

Keywords : medical student; medical education; telemedicine; information and communications technology; professional training; medical university.