Methodological instructional class guide in medical education

Abstract

Background: Methodological work contributes to improve the teaching-educational process, making it efficient and effective; and in the achievement of this purpose a useful form is the methodological instructional class, for which the use of guides could improve the quality of its development.

Objective: To design and validate a guide for the instructive methodological class about the workshop class structure in the teaching staff of Prosthetic Rehabilitation II subject of the Guantanamo University of Medical Sciences.

Methodology: A literature review was conducted about the methodological work through technology development. A guide for the development of the instructive methodological class was designed and validated for the teaching staff about the workshop class structure in topic III of Prosthetic Rehabilitation II subject. Theoretical and empirical methods were used for the research.

Results: The resulting guide contains the elements related to the workshop class generalities as an organization form of teaching and its structure with the elements introduction, development and conclusions. Emphasis was given to argumentation, as well as to the analysis of the main methodological problems that may appear in the workshop class and their possible solutions. The experts validated the proposal, all criteria surpassed 4 points.

Conclusions: The guide for the instructional methodological class designed and validated by the experts contains the argumentation, analysis and solutions of the methodological problems that the teaching staff may present in the workshop class, which contributes to the methodological work.