Alfonso GY, Sánchez GS, Guerrero GA, Cruz GT, Rivera LIT

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 89-99
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the teaching of ethics and bioethics is a latent need, a non-solved problem for higher education in all institutions and majors in current times, since the personnel graduated from medical universities requires treating from the ethic perception the scope of professional activity in the health area where he or she will make career, and thus to provide an approach to the principals, standards and values of the health care services in the context of the Cuban socialist project.
Objective: to design a teaching aid that contributes with the teaching-learning process in the subject Ethics and Bioethics in the major Bachelor in Health Technology of the Consolación del Sur Municipal University Health Venue.
Material and method: the present study was based on a technologic innovation project in the undergraduate section, from a comprehensive research approach, having a methodological basis the dialectical materialistic method. Theoretical, empirical, and statistical methods were used; within the first ones, the logical-historical, systemic-structural and the bibliographic review; within the second ones, surveys, interviews and observation.
Results: there is lack of teaching aids supported by the educative technology satisfying accessibility in the assimilation of contents and motivation for learning thus contributing to perfecting the subject Ethics and Bioethics, insufficient understanding by the students of the importance of the subject for their professional performance, low levels of acquisition of skill by the students, and elements affecting the quality of the teaching learning process of this subject.
Conclusions: a educative software was designed for studying the subject Ethics and Bioethics, which will permit the student an active, conscious and developing learning, facilitating the acquisition of skills and knowledge for professional performance. Consultation to the experts confirmed the validity of the educative software for the subject Ethics and Bioethics of the major Bachelor of Health Technology, and viability of its implementation in Consolación del Sur Municipal University Health Venue.

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