Simulaciones computacionales en la enseñanza de la física médica

Abstract

European Universities are immersed in a process of change that will entail structural changes and which has as an objective the improvement of teaching quality in higher education. The development of the European Space for Higher Education, together with the inclusion of ICTs in the classroom will make it easier to attain the aforementioned objective. In this referential framework, we have developed a multichannel tool (FISIMED) which allows the student to acquire knowledge about the subject ‘Medical Physics’, taught in the faculty of Medicine at the University of Salamanca. Nowadays, besides the network includes different types of contents, our main effort is focused on the development of computer-based simulations.  The main objective in this research is to show the different possibilities that animation and simulation technologies offer to teaching and learning processes at university, and, more specifically, in the field of Medical Physics. We present basic concepts for its use, quote several experiences carried out at the university context and analyse the different possibilities that the teaching of the aforementioned discipline can have.