Didactic model of the subject History of Cuba for the comprehension- expression of medical students

Abstract

Introduction: In order to train the Doctor of Medicine that society
demands from the Medical University, it is necessary to narrow the gap
between the insufficient development of the comprehension-expression
process in students entering the Medical School and the preventive and
promotional paradigm stated in the professional profile. This implies
improving the teaching-learning process in all disciplines in the study
plan, including the subject History of Cuba.
Objective: To design a didactic model of the subject History of
Cuba for the development of the comprehension-expression of medical
students in the gradual approach to the object of the profession.
Material and Methods: Educational research with dialectical-
materialistic approach and qualitative design that used empirical
methods: Documentary Review and Open Observation; theoretical
methods: Modeling, Systemic-Structural and Consultation to Specialists;
techniques: Workshop, and the Grid; and instruments: Logbook.
Methodological triangulation was carried out.
Results: A didactic model of the subject History of Cuba for the
development of comprehension-expression in the gradual approach
to the object of the profession, is characterized as being flexible,
participative, open and collaborative.
Conclusions: The designed didactic model is based on dialectically
related conceptions: philosophical, psychological, pedagogical and
didactic; it expresses the relationships among the participants
involved, the dimensions, the key components and the phases through
which it must pass, centered on the student's protagonism. The new
model incorporates a multiple and recombinant integration of the
comprehension-expression category, directing the attention to the
change of the professional´s performance in his radius of action.