Didactics training for Odontology professors

Abstract

Introduction: in Cuban higher medical education, professional improvement is the way to perfect the teaching preparation of the faculty and a program that, based on the determined needs, is considered a pertinent scientific result. Objective: to propose the main ideas about a program of improvement in didactics prepared for the odontology teachers. Methods: a development investigation was carried out at Dentistry Faculty of Villa Clara´s Medical Sciences University. Some methods were used: historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive systemic-structural and documentary analysis. Results: The program was adapted to the needs of professional pedagogical improvement in the investigated context. A synthesis of each aspects presented: introduction, general objective, foundation, structural components and evaluation. The structural components in each one of the areas are described in more details. It is pointed out on the novelty: the establishment of demands and the management of the various organizational forms that are combined within their actions. Conclusions: a professional improvement program is proposed for the preparation in teaching of dentistry teachers, which differs in its conception from what had traditionally been offered to them. It includes a diversity of complementary organizational forms, responds to local needs for pedagogical improvement and is contextualized to the particularities of the dentistry teaching-learning process in Cuba, among other attributes.

Keywords

• didáctica
• estomatología
• educación.