Abstract

SUAREZ DENIS, Ana Lidia et al. Effectiveness of the application of a diploma course to assist the student´s diversity in medical sciences. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.1, pp. 82-103. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the university professor should be prepared to respond to individual and group educational necessities that the educational community requires. Objective: to value the effectiveness of a diploma course to assist diversity in the group of students of the medical sciences. Methods: it was carried out a cuasie-xperimental assessment study, from February 2012 to 2015. Theoretical methods were used: historical-logical, analytic-synthetic, inductive-deductive and modelling; empiric: analysis of documents, observation of classes, interviews, formative pedagogic experiment and registration of information; and mathematical statistical: distribution of frequencies, percent and calculation of the effectiveness. The diploma course was valued and accepted by 12 experts through the Delphi Method. Its effectiveness was valued in two stages: diagnostic and assessment. Results: the study allowed diagnosing the deficiencies of the professors to assist the student´s diversity through established indicators for the curriculum, organization and methodology dimensions, for that reason a diploma course was elaborated with pertinent topics for its solution. Before its application very low levels of pedagogic knowledge were verified and after its application, a quality increase in the professor's preparation was observed. Conclusions: the investigation demonstrated the diploma course effectiveness as a postgraduate upgrading course, to solve the deficiencies of the professors in the attention to diversity.

Keywords : Courses; faculty; professional development; student; medical sciences; education, medical.

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