Pedagogical models in Teachers of Clinical Sciences of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Abstract

Objective: To characterize the pedagogical models used by clinical science professors of the medicine program at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira.

Materials and methods: Qualitative, descriptive research. Forty teachers linked under any modality (permanent, temporary or for hours) who had been carrying out their pedagogical activity for three years or more were selected. A semi-structured interview was conducted, which was endorsed by the Bioethics Committee of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira.

Results: 55% of professors have training in education or university teaching. 45% of teachers claim to use the problematization model, 37.5% do not know the model they use, 12.5% ​​believe they use the technological model and finally 5% invoke the traditional model. Regarding the didactic material used, there were no differences between the groups of professors, all of them favored audiovisual aids, such as power point presentations and whiteboard. There were also no differences regarding the didactic methodology since the majority used academic rounds, clinical cases, and topic reviews. And at the time of the evaluation, everyone favored the written exam.

Conclusion: Most of the professors have some degree of training in education; All of them use a pedagogical model and although the majority identify it as a problematization model, it was found that, based on the didactic material used, the way of transmitting information, motivating and evaluating the student and how it facilitates training, the tendency is to use a mixture of models, with the technological model predominating, followed by the traditional and problematization models.