Doctors are trained in teaching techniques
In an act performed in the Dr. Miranda Auditorium of the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, the Teaching Management Division of INTEC, delivered diplomas and certificates to 25 in charge of medical residencies of this medical center that participated in the first diploma of Management of University Teaching, only for doctors.
The INTEC professors provided pedagogy tools to health specialists, an enthusiastic group of professionals, mostly pediatricians, who placed themselves in a "learning to teach" attitude and implemented teaching strategies, resources and information services, essential tools in the process of learning construction.
The diploma is the twelfth round of Teaching Management but the first exclusively for doctors and was conceived inter-institutionally to contribute to the professionalization of university teaching, raise the quality of pedagogical management of medical students who are trained in that center.
In her speech, Dr. Georgina Pérez Cairo, Teaching Manager of HRRC, explained that "more than twenty doctors of pediatrics and sub-specialists update our technological and scientific knowledge in educational matters, joining us not only the love for sick and needy children, but also the desire and the need to share and contribute our experience and know, to stimulate the development of young professionals who venture into this world of unconditional love that is pediatrics ".
Pérez Cairo pointed out that "Knowing the trajectory and quality of the INTEC university, we established a link and found as a response widely open doors that, in a selfless and generous way, gave us the opportunity to make this diploma that ends today "..
Topics and content
The topics addressed by the diploma course, funded by the INTEC, were "the role of the university professor", "Importance and sense of bioethics" and "Processes for the evaluation of learning".
It also highlights content such as: "Virtual resources", "Changes in teaching", "Training focused on the student", "Strategies and research methodology I and II" and "Components of teaching: resources and information services and learnings. "
The act in which 20 certificates of approval and 5 certificates of participation were delivered, was headed by Doctors Raymundo Jiménez and Emilio Mena Castro, Dean of the Area of Health Sciences of INTEC and Director of the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital, respectively. They were joined by Rocío Hernández Mella, Dean of the Teaching Management Division of INTEC.