Assessment of the application of the curricular strategy of research and informatics in Medicine

Abstract

Background: curricular strategies are applied to achieve objectives related to knowledge and skills in graduate education.
Objective: to evaluate the application of the methodology to implement the curricular strategy of research and computer science in the third year of Medicine.
Method: an evaluation research was carried out in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Medical Sciences of Holguín, between March-July 2017; Theoretical methods were applied: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and historical-logical; empirical: the documentary review, the observation to classes and the questionnaire survey to students and professors; and statistical procedures: the calculation of the relative and position indices, the scale element correlation and the Cronbach's Alpha.
Results: three variables were determined to meet the research objective: knowledge of the methodology to implement the curricular research and information strategy in its theoretical and practical dimension, which was assessed as partially fulfilled; teacher preparation, where it was proven that they are oriented on how to apply their actions; and preparation of the students, partially fulfilled because they were assigned low values in some of their items, and after triangulating this information with the results of the observation to classes, some insufficiencies in its application were determined.
Conclusions: the study carried out of the data obtained with the application of statistical methods and procedures made it possible to assess that the application of the methodology was partially fulfilled during the period analyzed.