Distance education, actions for its implementation in the career Health Information Systems

Abstract

Introduction: distance education is a teaching – learning system, with partial or total characteristics, which is developed through information and communication technologies, using a bidirectional method between teachers and students. This system substitutes the traditional method used (personal interaction in the classroom), for a tutoring one in which the students are responsible for their own training process. Objective: to design a system of actions to implement the distance education in the career of Health Information System. Method: to perform this work, an applied and descriptive research with a dialectical materialist approach was carried out in the career - Health Information Systems at the Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”, Pinar del Rio. The historical-logical method was used as theoretical level techniques and also as empirical level methods, documentary review and participatory observation were used too. Results: the outcomes achieved through a critical analysis of teaching - learning process and the distance education, allowed to design a system of actions to be implemented in the career - Health Information Systems. Conclusions: many difficulties found have reveled lack of theoretical, pedagogical and methodological preparation on teachers and tutors, as well as lack of cognitive preparation of students concerning this process.

Keywords

• educación a distancia
• formación profesional
• sistemas de información en salud