The teaching-learning process of elective general neck surgery: science-technology-society integration in a didactic anthology

Abstract

The teaching-learning process of endocrine surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid glands is developed within the framework of the training of specialists with a high level of performance, solidity in the ethical-moral principles of society and high scientific-technical qualification. The exploratory study in the Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital "León Cuervo Rubio" of Pinar del Río, showed insufficiencies in the didactic intention of integrating theoretical-practical knowledge to the solution of self-learning problems faced by resident physicians in the clinical-surgical activity, which limit the development of criteria for diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the glands under study. Therefore, a didactic conception was developed based on the use of theoretical, empirical and statistical-mathematical methods to reveal the flexible, integrative and personalized character of the teaching-learning process. For this purpose, it was determined the need to be guided by means of the theoretical-practical integration that transcends the cognitive interrelation, the interest and motivations for self-learning in the clinical-surgical activity, guiding principle in the modeling of the conception, which through a system of scientific ideas designs this teaching-learning process based on the triadic relationship, specialist training-historical evolution of endocrine surgery knowledge-technological scientific development articulated by the essentials of practical-theoretical knowledge, structures it through the relationships between the didactic components and projects it for self-learning, with a developmental approach by stages.