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ALEMAN MONDEJA, Linet Diana; DIAZ SUAREZ, Luis Alberto  e  ABIN VAZQUEZ, Lutgarda. Webquest: infectious deseases indisasters. RCIM [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.1, pp. 31-39. ISSN 1684-1859.

Infectious diseases that arise after an adverse weather event (hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in affected populations. That is why it is advantageous for studentsfrom medicine career to develop skills and acquire knowledge to perfect their performance as health professionals. The WebQuest are known longtime among teachers who regularly use the Information Technology and Communication (ICT) in their teaching. The educational value of the WebQuest is recognized by many teachers in various institutions and as a methodology is appropriate to link terms that have dominated the late twentieth and early twenty-first: "Health" and "Information Technologies and Communications".The main objective of this work was to design an ICT based resource: WebQuest "Infectious Diseases in disaster situations", using the webquest generator of classroom 21.In the WebQuest are presented problem simulated situations that affect the health of the population after an environmental disaster and that must be solved by the students.In the solution of the task set, they put into practice the knowledge acquired in Medical Microbiology and Parasitology discipline.With the application of this WebQuest are motivated both learning and deepening knowledge of infectious diseases caused by environmental catastrophe conditions, as well as research activity of students of medicine career.

Palavras-chave : WebQuest; ICT; infectious diseases; natural disasters.

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