The research formation in medical students since the pediatric teaching

Abstract

The research formation in medical students constitute a medullary element of the medical university. Pediatrics assumes a protagonic role, like a main science in the pre-grade formation. It was made a longitudinal and prospective study with the aim to determine limitations and potentialities of Pediatrics teaching in the research formation of the students, in order to offer a proposal of improvement. The sample was constituted by 57 students of fourth and fifth year of medicine carreer, in the Medical Sciences Filial of Bayamo, Granma, during 2011- 2012. It was used an intentional sample. There were applied empirical methods like the scientific observation, the historical -logical from the theorical level, the analysis- synthesis, induction deduction, abstraction, concretion and structural- systemical processes, that allowed to identify potentialities since the subject for the development of scientific information research (93% of the sample), in subjects like digestive and respiratory illnesses. The limitations had their greater expression in the critical analysis of scientific literature (10.5%), the formulation of scientific problems and interpretation and contrastation of results. It was identified the need to strengthen the problemic teaching, emphasizing the independent work. It was created a formative strategy, structured to improve the research component inside the teaching learning process that occurs during the teaching of the subject in the fourth year of medicine career.