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EDUMECENTRO

On-line version ISSN 2077-2874

Abstract

MENDO ALCOLEA, Neity et al. Characterization of self-learning in recently enrolled students in higher medical education. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.4, pp.53-63. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background:

knowing the characteristics of self-learning in recently enrolled medical students is relevant to enhance the development of skills that allow them to face the demands of the curriculum in each classroom.

Objective:

to characterize self-learning in recently enrolled medical students in the Faculty No. 1 of Santiago de Cuba.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out during the 2016-2017 academic year. Theoretical methods were used: analytic-synthetic, inductive-deductive, historical-logical and the transition from the abstract to the concrete; and empirical ones: survey in the form of questionnaire to the students to obtain the necessary information. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented in tables with absolute numbers and percentages.

Results:

most of the students planned the time for the written text oriented in the form of independent work; however, only the smallest percentage did it with a logical order and adequate spelling and syntax. There were shortcomings in the use of information and communication technologies and there was a predominance of short-term memory, which does not guarantee the sustainability of knowledge.

Conclusions:

some students entered the Medicine degree without the necessary skills to assume their self-learning, so necessary in this university stage.

Keywords : learning; students, medical; education, medical.

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