Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río (Dec 2018)
The curriculum, the professional competences of the teacher: a challenge of pedagogical and medical careers
Abstract
Introduction: evaluation as a component of the teaching-learning process has been of interest in all pedagogical approaches, outstanding itself in the roots of the teaching-learning process, and as part of Didactics as a science along with the theories of program of study, as it is a necessary component for its design, implementation and control. Objective: to establish the dimensions and indicators for the evaluation of the didactic competence of professors in the implementation of the program of study in the pedagogical campus at Hermanos Saiz Montes de Oca University and Pinar del Río University of Medical Sciences, Pinar del Río province. Development: the professor achieves a quality of performance when the professional competencies are integrated, within which the didactic competences are highlighted as an integration center, bifurcating the support and concurrence relationships as well, allowing the dynamics and the role of them. The insufficiencies concerning the guidance of the processes, which were identified from the observation of the curricular activities, interviews and documentary analysis, concerning the implementation of the program of study, revealed as one of the causes that limit the objectivity in the assessment of professor’s performance, a characteristic demanding the establishment of dimensions and indicators that allow an objective and dynamic assessment of the didactic competence of professors for the implementation of the program of study. Conclusions: taking into account the cognitive-affective and motivational unit from the education at work, which integrates the training components, and involves the pedagogical campus of both universities in Pinar del Río province. Its implementation allowed directing of a more efficient process.
