MicroDeCine: The Teaching of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela by Means of Film

Abstract

The development of new ways of learning and a closer approach of education to social reality and its problems, to which all forms of disease are inseparable, is among the challenges of the European Higher Education Area. Bearing in mind that the University of Salamanca has consolidated itself as a pioneer in the use of film for teaching purposes, it seems that film has at last entered into the classroom and that Spanish Universities are increasingly taking up this kind of activity. The present authors wish to contribute the experience they have drawn from the activity MicroDeCine, which took place during November 2008 at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and which positively surprised everyone, both teachers and students.

Keywords

• cine
• microbiología
• enfermedades infecciosas
• docencia
• experiencia educativa