Abstract

ARCE GOMEZ, Dora Lidia et al. Activities of the teaching staff in the implementation of the learning method based on the solution to problems in Ghana . MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.5, pp. 703-709. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and observational study on the teaching staff `s activities, mainly as tutors in biomedical contents teaching was carried out at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Tamale (Ghana), from 2008 to 2011, taking into account the learning based on the solution to problems. Among the main identified difficulties, which never overcame the advantages, there were: to motivate more the participation of the students in the class, to listen the concerns of the students, as well as to ask and to investigate about the process of reasoning of the students, whose percentages fluctuated from 43.3 to 40.0, in that order; however, the interest for the implementation of this method is increasing in the new medical universities of the world with development needs.

Keywords : learning based on the solution to problems; tutor; medical student; medical university; Ghana.

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