Linares CM, Cruz ED

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 340-355
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: there are professionals with high level of knowledge in sciences in Cuba, but they have psychological and pedagogic deficiencies to play a teaching role. The suggested strategy takes into account all the actors involved in the process, their opinions and deficiencies.
Objectives: to identify the upgrading requirements in the pedagogic field of the health professionals who also work as professors in Playa municipality, and to draw the strategy that may meet these needs.
Methods: an intentional sampling used as non-probabilistic technique, documentary review about determining the learning needs, resolutions on the continued education and others that rule the pedagogic process in the higher medical education; opinion poll for professors(54) to find out the upgrading needs of pedagogic nature; opinion poll for students (38) to indirectly identify the professor's needs; interview to executives (20) to determine the institutional interests; and interview to professors who are members of boards in charge of granting teaching categories(8).
Results: the priority needs are the study and use of the elements of the teaching-learning process (active methods and learning assessment), the research methodology, the educational communication, the curriculum design and the legal documents governing the learning process.
Conclusions: the upgrading requirements of the professors in the medical career were determined, based on a comprehensive scientific collection of information that took into account the criteria from all the actors of the teaching educational process. The pedagogic upgrading strategy for professors in the medical career was designed.

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