Introduction:

The study of the local history of medicine provides relevant knowledge about man's activity in society.

Objective:

to validate a teaching support material on the history of local medicine in Pinar del Rio.

Methods:

development research in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Pinar del Río, during the period from September 2018 to December 2020. The sample consisted of 69 second year students of the Medicine career and 26 teachers with a degree in History and Social Sciences. Adobe Master Collection CS6 was used for digital assembly and processing.

Results:

It was configured for A4 format paper sheets, 21 cm x 29,7 cm, consisting of 6 chapters and 280 pages. 96,15 % of the teachers rated all the indicators as adequate, 100 % of them evaluated as adequate the value as a teaching medium. According to students' criteria, all indicators received ratings of adequate or higher by 97,10 % of the students, where category 4 (value as a teaching medium), was evaluated as very adequate by 50,73 %.

Conclusions:

A teaching medium on the history of local medicine was made, which was evaluated as adequate to integrate the contents of the history of local medicine in Pinar del Río, with an adequate pedagogical structure for the achievement of significant learning and contextualization of the contents and of great value as a teaching medium.

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